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. In NYC, 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 hired and brought to Florida as a founding member of the “Who What and Warehouse Improv Company,” the resident improv troupe at Disney’s Comedy Warehouse on Pleasure Island. He later performed at a number of different venues at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida. He also performed improvisationally with the ensemble at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando. He has written, directed and performed in many corporate events all over the world for such companies as Walt Disney World, Ford Motor Company, Ernst & Young and Eckerd Drug, as well as having led many corporate training seminars in the application of improvisational techniques to the business world and to facilitate the creative development of students. He has also continued to do theater, performing in Central Florida with the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Orlando Theater Project, Vine Theater and Mad Cow Theater in partnership with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as theaters in Los Angeles and Massachusetts. On the big screen, he starred in the Student Academy and Emmy Award winning FSU student film Slow Dancin’ Down the Aisles of the Quick Check (screened at the Cannes Film Festival and winner of numerous film festival prizes), the Coca Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Grand Prize winning film Escape Back to the Movies (shown on hundreds of film screens nationwide), the independent short film The Meeting (shown at the LA Independent Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, and on the Sci Fi Channel show Exposure) and was featured in the films Confessions of a Florist, Alligator Alley, Unconscious, My Own Love Song, The Year of Getting to Know Us, A Grave Matter, and The Little Mermaid. On the small screen, he was most recently seen on A & E’s The Glades, USA Network’s Burn Notice, Fox TV’s Bones, AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire, and USA Network’s Graceland. He had a recurring role on the syndicated series The Cape, and was featured in Episode Five of the award winning HBO miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon." He can next be seen as Hostage (a principal role) in the Fox/Walt Disney feature film, "Free Guy," directed by Stranger Things' Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer, releasing nationwide on July 3, 2020.…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. In NYC, 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 hired and brought to Florida as a founding member of the “Who What and Warehouse Improv Company,” the resident improv troupe at Disney’s Comedy Warehouse on Pleasure Island. He later performed at a number of different venues at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida. He also performed improvisationally with the ensemble at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando. He has written, directed and performed in many corporate events all over the world for such companies as Walt Disney World, Ford Motor Company, Ernst & Young and Eckerd Drug, as well as having led many corporate training seminars in the application of improvisational techniques to the business world and to facilitate the creative development of students. He has also continued to do theater, performing in Central Florida with the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Orlando Theater Project, Vine Theater and Mad Cow Theater in partnership with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as theaters in Los Angeles and Massachusetts. On the big screen, he starred in the Student Academy and Emmy Award winning FSU student film Slow Dancin’ Down the Aisles of the Quick Check (screened at the Cannes Film Festival and winner of numerous film festival prizes), the Coca Cola Refreshing Filmmaker Grand Prize winning film Escape Back to the Movies (shown on hundreds of film screens nationwide), the independent short film The Meeting (shown at the LA Independent Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, and on the Sci Fi Channel show Exposure) and was featured in the films Confessions of a Florist, Alligator Alley, Unconscious, My Own Love Song, The Year of Getting to Know Us, A Grave Matter, and The Little Mermaid. On the small screen, he was most recently seen on A & E’s The Glades, USA Network’s Burn Notice, Fox TV’s Bones, AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire, and USA Network’s Graceland. He had a recurring role on the syndicated series The Cape, and was featured in Episode Five of the award winning HBO miniseries “From the Earth to the Moon." He can next be seen as Hostage (a principal role) in the Fox/Walt Disney feature film, "Free Guy," directed by Stranger Things' Shawn Levy and starring Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer, releasing nationwide on July 3, 2020.WWWW…