Mark O'Connell

Mark is a native of Millerton, New York. He attended Simon's Rock College of Bard at 16 and continued his education at SUNY Geneseo where he developed his acting skills playing everything from Hamlet to Jean Paul Marat in Marat/Sade. After college, he earned his MFA at Trinity Repertory Company which is in association with Brown University. Mark's debut film role was in Outside Providence (1999) when fellow Trinity Rep alumni Michael Corrente cast him in the role of a prep school prankster. Read more...
Mark is also a psychotherapist in private practice. He writes the Psychology Today column, "Quite Queerly", frequently contributes to The Huffington Post, and has been published in scholarly journals such as Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of the book, Modern Brides & Modern Grooms: A Guide to Planning Straight, Gay, and Other Nontraditional 21st Century Weddings,(Skyhorse, 2014).