Marcus Folmar

Marcus started his career in entertainment as a child in Denver, CO where he booked his first network acting job in 1989 on NBC's Father Dowling Mysteries. At Northwestern University, he majored in Radio, Television and Film Production. In addition to his honors production degree, Marcus participated in NU's acclaimed Writing for the Media program. Outside of the classroom Marcus directed several campus productions while serving as Artistic Director of the African American Theater Ensemble, the school's oldest student run theater company. Off campus, Marcus continued to work professionally in Chicago landing several industrials and his first national commercial for AT&T.After moving to L.A., Marcus' first job was being the assistant to television executive Stephen Chao followed by a stint waiting tables at Houstons Restaurant. All the while he studied comedy and Improv with Chris Barnes at the Comedy Dojo...a now defunct school in Santa Monica that followed in the tradition of Second City and Improv Guru Del Close. Roles on shows such as ER, Frasier, Malcolm in the Middle, Boston Legal, and Monk soon followed. More recently, Marcus worked on The Big Bang Theory, The Defenders, Dexter and Community. In all, he's done over fifty TV Shows, films and commercials.Since 2008, Marcus has been helping other actors master the art of auditioning with his coaching business, The Booking Room. As a screenwriter, his ABC Family original movie The List was nominated in '08 for three NAACP Image Awards including one for Best TV Movie and one for the romantic comedy's leading man Wayne Brady. Recently, Marcus was the lead Writer and Co-Director of Cyber Smack, a recently released animated web series that he co-created for ADASport.com. Show less «