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MARK TYNE
MUSICAL THEATER BIO

	Mark Tyne Bio 415.675.9963 marktyneshow@yahoo.com www.marktyne.com www.amfido.com Mark Tyne was born in Berkeley, California during the Summer of Love. Although some claim the summer of love happened in 1967, Mark’s parents assure him it occurred in 1964. Mark studied classical piano and theory privately for 12 years before graduating from UC Berkeley. Mark received a degree in Web Programming the the SFSU MSP and recently earned a Masters Degree in Nonprofit Administration at the University of San Francisco
Mark began composing music in 1980. He has been composing music for 25 years. After graduating from UC Berkeley, Mark began work as a Sound Designer for a Japanese video game development firm. Mark spent two years living in Tokyo Japan orchestrating music and creating sound effects for PC, Mac, Amiga, Nintendo and Gameboy systems. While working in Tokyo, Mark became conversational in Japanese. When Mark returned to the US, Mark worked as a Sound Designer and Project Manager on PC games, interviewing and hiring composers for video game projects. Over the past five years, Mark has worked on producing websites related to music and the arts. He produced WorldWideArt, the first online collaborative digital art studio. He has produced websites for two of his bands, Sight Unseen and Setup and Play and is working on a website for his new band Killing Hippies. In 2003, Mark wrote his first musical, Sexy Sax The Musical. Sexy Sax is a musical comedy. It is a high school love story between a punk and a preppie. In 2004, Mark wrote Elvis vs Dracula The Musical. Mark composed the music, lyrics and wrote the script for both musicals. Elvis vs Dracula is a musical comedy. The story is Holiday Inn meets Nosferatu. Mark is currently working on a guerrilla marketing promotion campaign to encourage SHN Productions to produce Elvis vs Dracula at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. Mark’s goal is to have the SF Chronicle cover the story. (Orpheum Promotion) In 2005, Mark Tyne became the musical conductor and composer for the SF theater group Primitive Screwheads (www.primitivescrewheads.com) and a member of the SF sketch comedy group Tossing Alice (www.tossingalice.com) Mark composed the music for the Crazy Go Nuts Show, Reanimator Live and Chainsaw Massacre. Mark is composing the music to his first blood splatter musical. In 2008, Mark earned a Masters Degree in Nonprofit Administration through the University of San Francisco. Mark is the Producer of "The Mark Tyne Show" (SF Ch76, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6PM) and The Miss American Fido Show (SF Ch29, 1st Mondays 8PM) Mark has met Stephen Scwartz and is looking forward to composing a music that Carole Shorenstein Hays will be happy to produce at the Orpheum Theater in the near future.

Mark Tyne Bio
415.675.9963
marktyneshow@yahoo.com
www.marktyne.com
www.amfido.com

Mark Tyne was born in Berkeley, California during the Summer of Love. Although some claim the summer of love happened in 1967, Mark’s parents assure him it occurred in 1964. Mark studied classical piano and theory privately for 12 years before graduating from UC Berkeley. Mark received a degree in Web Programming the the SFSU MSP and recently earned a Masters Degree in Nonprofit Administration at the University of San Francisco

Mark began composing music in 1980. He has been composing music for 25 years.

After graduating from UC Berkeley, Mark began work as a Sound Designer for a Japanese video game development firm. Mark spent two years living in Tokyo Japan orchestrating music and creating sound effects for PC, Mac, Amiga, Nintendo and Gameboy systems. While working in Tokyo, Mark became conversational in Japanese. When Mark returned to the US, Mark worked as a Sound Designer and Project Manager on PC games, interviewing and hiring composers for video game projects.

Over the past five years, Mark has worked on producing websites related to music and the arts. He produced WorldWideArt, the first online collaborative digital art studio. He has produced websites for two of his bands, Sight Unseen and Setup and Play and is working on a website for his new band Killing Hippies.

In 2003, Mark wrote his first musical, Sexy Sax The Musical. Sexy Sax is a musical comedy. It is a high school love story between a punk and a preppie. In 2004, Mark wrote Elvis vs Dracula The Musical. Mark composed the music, lyrics and wrote the script for both musicals. Elvis vs Dracula is a musical comedy. The story is Holiday Inn meets Nosferatu. Mark is currently working on a guerrilla marketing promotion campaign to encourage SHN Productions to produce Elvis vs Dracula at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. Mark’s goal is to have the SF Chronicle cover the story. (Orpheum Promotion)

In 2005, Mark Tyne became the musical conductor and composer for the SF theater group Primitive Screwheads (www.primitivescrewheads.com) and a member of the SF sketch comedy group Tossing Alice (www.tossingalice.com) Mark composed the music for the Crazy Go Nuts Show, Reanimator Live and Chainsaw Massacre. Mark is composing the music to his first blood splatter musical.

In 2008, Mark earned a Masters Degree in Nonprofit Administration through the University of San Francisco. Mark is the Producer of "The Mark Tyne Show" (SF Ch76, 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6PM) and The Miss American Fido Show (SF Ch29, 1st Mondays 8PM)

Mark has met Stephen Scwartz and is looking forward to composing a music that Carole Shorenstein Hays will be happy to produce at the Orpheum Theater in the near future.