Mark Whelehan Author

Sculptor, Writer, Lapsed Actor, Props Designer.

Polymath, Mark Whelehan is a British Actors’ Equity member of 45 years and a member of The Poetry Society. He has an M.A. in Fine Art, a B.A. Hons., in Creative Studies in English, and studied Art and Design.

He embarked on a props apprenticeship at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. Claims to fame include being ‘booted out of the RSC, BBC, Film Theatre and TV’. Despite surviving work on a few productions too!

He has parachuted and helped crew a 70-foot narrow boat from Hammersmith Bridge on the River Thames, all the way to Calais. He has also endured as far afield extensive excursions in West Indies, United States and Africa.

He survived with his mate Smith, a charging young bull elephant in the Okovango delta, and a swim in a perilously, crocodile infested, papyrus lagoon!

This will be his 6th published poetry work.