Mark Lainer

Mark Lainer is originally from Worcester, MA, went to high school at Worcester Academy and graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College in Amherst, MA with a degree in Neuroscience. He spent time as a bookkeeper and accountant, interned as a research biologist for the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Company, and, while traveling in East Africa for six months, volunteered as a technician at a village hospital and taught bookkeeping and accounting at a small technical college in Kilifi, an island off the coast of Kenya. Bitten by the acting bug during junior high school, he finally decided to try to make a go of it as an actor and moved to New York City, where he did a great deal of stage work, as well as some TV and commercials. He trained as an improviser and writer with Groundlings East (later Gotham Improv), performed with improvisational and sketch comedy troupes in New York City (including the "New York Improv Squad," "Unexpected Company" and "Style Without Substance") and was brought to