{"title":"Mark Blum","role":"Jacob","image":"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/roundabout-theatre-company\/image\/upload\/c_fill,g_auto,h_880,w_880\/f_auto\/q_auto\/v1538493958\/Headshots\/Amy%20and%20the%20Orphans\/Blum_Mark_0661_ret_low?_a=BAAAV6DQ","lede":null,"content":"

MARK BLUM (Jacob).<\/strong> As an actor, Mark appears in the Amazon series, \u201cMozart in the Jungle,\u201d as the first flutist in a NY-based symphony orchestra. He has appeared on Broadway in Richard Greenberg\u2019s The Assembled Parties<\/em>, both Broadway revivals of Gore Vidal\u2019s The Best Man, Twelve Angry Men, The Graduate, A Thousand Clowns, Lost In Yonkers, My Thing of Love<\/em> and The Merchant<\/em>. Off-Broadway appearances include Rancho Vieijo, The Model Apartment, The Good Mother, Lonely I\u2019m Not, We Live Here, Picked, After The Revolution, The Singing Forest, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Waverly Gallery, Mizlanski Zilinski, Little Footsteps, It's Only A Play, Gus and Al<\/em> (for which he was awarded an Obie), Key Exchange, Table Settings<\/em> and Say Goodnight Gracie<\/em>.<\/p>

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His films include Blumenthal, I Don\u2019t Know How She Does It, Shattered Glass, Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee, The Presidio, Blind Date, Worth Winning, Lovesick<\/em> and Miami Rhapsody<\/em>. On TV, he has appeared in the HBO movie \u201cIndictment: The McMartin Trial,\u201d the Showtime movie \u201cThe Defenders,\u201d the NBC mini-series \u201cThe Judge\u201d and the CBS \u201cJesse Stone Mystery, Innocents Lost.\u201d<\/p>

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He has been a regular on \u201cCapital News\u201d and \u201cSweet Surrender,\u201d and made guest appearances on, among others, \u201cElementary,\u201d \u201cThe Good Wife,\u201d \u201cDamages,\u201d \u201cMercy,\u201d \u201cFringe,\u201d \u201cThe Sopranos,\u201d \u201cThe West Wing,\u201d \u201cLaw and Order,\u201d \u201cLaw and Order Criminal Intent,\u201d \u201cLaw and Order SVU,\u201d \u201cCSI Miami,\u201d \u201cNYPD Blue,\u201d \u201cFrasier,\u201d \u201cThe Practice,\u201d \u201cJudging Amy,\u201d \u201cRoseanne,\u201d \u201cWings,\u201d \u201cMiami Vice,\u201d and \u201cSt. Elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>

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He has written several screenplays, rewritten several others, and has produced the independent films Search and Destroy <\/em>and The Lowlife<\/em>. He teaches at the HB Studio, and in the graduate training program at Brooklyn College. He has also taught at Manhattan School of Music, Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Center, Primary Stages, NYU Grad Acting, NYU Undergrad Acting, and Fordham University. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA in Acting from the University of Minnesota.<\/p>","website":"","alt":null}