Mark is a full time pro vent and has been on tour as an opening act with Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Loretta Lynne, Marie Osmond , The Oak Ridge Boys , and dozens of others. He has made appearances on "Good Morning, America", "CBS Evening News", and "Real People" and especially enjoys working for young audiences. Mark is "America's Foremost Children's Ventriloquist " and has written books on entertaining kids with vent. He has performed and lectures on this topic in Japan, England,Canada, and all across the USA. Check out his newest regular column for us, “Wade’s World.” https://www.skool.com/ventriloquist-guild-4182/classroom/1fc31ce5

Hi everybody, I’m new to your guys’s group. It would be helpful. If I get some information from people help me get better as a ventriloquist. I know I still practice practice. I do have some videos of me with some of my puppets friends.

Take your money and run. (Just kidding but not really). How do you cope after a performance goes sideways? I eat ice cream, cry, but then evaluate what could have gone better. Or I assess the situation (sometimes it’s not you but a client or booker who is cheap/hasn’t thought things through) and brainstorm on how to avoid that next time. Or I have a comeback up my character’s sleeve. I always say the only bad show is the show you don’t learn from. What do you do after that happens to you?

I performed a show today for a senior volunteer lunch. It was a Super Hero Theme. In my show I playfully added some super hero comments and things. When I finished the show one of the event planners said "I was so impressed the way you did your research and added in some Super Hero bits to tie in with our theme." So there is an idea for you all, find out the theme of the event and add a few little things and they will love you for it.

For those of you who are multi-lingual, how many languages do you perform in? And those of you who have had to perform in a different language they didn’t know, how did you learn? Let’s hear your experience