Mark A. Patton

After graduating with honors from Chanute High School in southeast Kansas, Mark joined the United States Air Force as an electronic maintenance specialist in Minuteman III Nuclear Missile Silos. He gained the rank of sergeant. After serving his stint he published a small collection of poetry "Visions" and then attended Grinnell College where he graduated with a BA in English.Soon after, he sold his few belongings and journeyed to Alaska where he worked in a car wash and wrote in his spare time. Six months later, he traveled to South Korea where he spent two years teaching English at Hyundai Electronics. Upon his return he took a job as a radio air personality and became part of an award-winning morning show at radio station "kinz FM".After two years in radio he took part interest in and managed a successful bar/restaurant. Next he joined a four man partnership that leased over 500,000 acres of land for coal bed methane gas exploration in eastern Kansas and helped to develop a very successful natural gas operation.Finally able to write full-time, he moved to Sedona, Arizona where he attended Zaki Gordon Independent Film School and settled into a life of writing screenplays.He co-wrote and executive produced "The Strand, Venice" with co-creator of "The Blair Witch Project" with Daniel Myrick in 2005. A pre-YouTube Internet series, it was not immediately successful but has found a home as a dramatic series on Koldcast.In 2007 he won a Top Ten Award in Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope contest with a script called "The Machine".In 2008 he joined Myrick again to co-write "The Objective" which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, saw limited theatrical distribution, is available on DVD, shows often on television and got positive reviews from Stephen King in his book "Danse Macabre".Most recently, he has optioned several scripts and resides in Kansas where he continues to travel and write screenplays. Show less «