Mark is an award-winning writer, photographer, creative director and communications specialist in the entertainment communications capital of the world, Los Angeles. He works internationally, creating projects that open lifelong conversations with curious minds. His areas of expertise are literary fiction, novels, advertising copy, branding, positioning, taglines, and fine art photographs. Mark believes that getting an idea on the page, stage, or screen is fun and among the lesser of the creative’s worries. The story is the thing, the work of art. Weaving together meaning from facts, personal narrative, aspiration, intention, action and reaction is where the magic happens.
Mark loves working on the difficult challenges. He scouts the hard facts on the ground, identifies the core issue, and develops the unexpected strategy that penetrates, resonates and inspires new pathways to success…in your favor.
Mark’s advice has helped global companies like Sony and World Wildlife Fund to make winning, multi-million dollar decisions. That’s why Stars & Stripes America’s Cup Challenge asked Mark to help them develop concepts for publicizing, promoting and building support for returning the America’s Cup to the United States.
Mark Roger Bailey: [märk rŏj'ər bā•li] - pron; 1. author - BEYOND THESE WOODS (novel) and SAINT (novel); 2. writer - short fiction; 3. photographer - art, maritime, marine, wildlife, nature; 4. screenwriter - Public Figures, Private Moments (PBS); Collection of Americana; Hollywood Gets MADD (TBS); 5. director - Public Figures Private Moments (PBS); Louis Vuitton Challenger Cup 1986 (ESPN/ABC/ITN); America's Cup 1987 (ESPN/ABC); 350 national television commercials; 6. creative director; 7. senior copywriter.
Mark Roger Bailey writes novels about the complex and at times paradoxical interplay between science and institutions, such as religion, governments, and human belief systems. These themes are at the heart of his books. Thought-provoking and cinematic are descriptions that have been used to describe his award-winning work. His novels, SAINT and BEYOND THESE WOODS, are such tales.
His force of thought on subjects ranging from science to religion and the human dramas and tragedies in between illuminates the very real complexities of navigating our world. His novels epitomize the techno-thriller genre of literature, exploring technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially involving biotechnological complications and their unintended ripple effects in other areas of human activity. Much of his work has medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his early medical documentary cinematography training as a graduate student and his work in advanced technology as a writer-director-producer on military, medical, aeronautical, marine and environmental studies projects on three continents.
As a journalist and filmmaker, Mark was recruited by ABC Sports for on-air college football and Olympics commentary, appeared as spokesman in regional and national advertising campaigns, and performed voiceover narration for documentaries and public service announcements. After a three-year stint as a writer-producer-director and creative director for a national advertising agency, he formed the creative consultancy MBCI to develop high-profile international creative projects including video and film coverage of yachtsman Dennis Conner's successful Stars & Stripes 87 America's Cup campaign to win the Cup back from Australia and return of the Cup to the United States at the White House.
He went on to write, produce and direct projects in Australia, England, Italy, the Vatican, Switzerland and Ireland, researching stories that captured the imagination.
A concept specialist and award-winning creative writer, Mark has created scores of high-profile advertising, marketing, entertainment and Internet projects for clients including VISA, American Airlines, Chevrolet, National Geographic, Time-LIFE, and Major League Baseball.
He also worked as a creative strategist and writer at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Columbia TriStar Home Video, marketing popular movies Men in Black, Legends of the Fall, A Few Good Men, Das Boot, Jerry Maguire and others.
He has also served as vice president for communications, marketing and public relations at one of the most selective liberal arts colleges in the United States. Recently, he managed the launch of actor and environmentalist Robert Redford’s Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability and announcement of Pitzer College's Fossil Fuels Divestment Initiative.
Mark Roger Bailey is also an award-winning fine art photographer.
Mark is currently developing a new collection of fine art photography and continuing work on his next novel.
MRB Bio
markrogerbailey.com is dedicated to creatives everywhere - writers, novelists, screenwriters, copywriters and editors. It covers the topics of creative writing, the business of rights and publishing, and life during and after writing.
This is an on-going conversation with writer Mark Roger Bailey. Like most conversations, it occasionally ranges afield of the original thought, but usually comes back to make sense of things from a creative writer’s perspective. You’ll also find information about previous, current and future projects.