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Mark Scrimshaw - Business Mentor Born in Derbyshire and schooled in Nottingham, Mark first came to the North East in 1973 to study History at Newcastle University, and after graduating he attended Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before embarking on a career as a theatre director. He directed at theatres in Bristol, Salisbury, Leatherhead, Soho Poly and elsewhere on the London Fringe. In 1983 he was enticed away from the live arts to television by the promise of a regular income, working for the BBC in Bristol. In 1985 he returned to Newcastle BBC as a director, since when he was worked far and wide across the region - producing and directing over 80 feature documentaries; he has won 3 RTS North East centre awards for The Rhine - Romance & Rubbish (1989) After Meadowell (1992) and Once Upon a Time…in the North (2001); won the European Parliament Prize at the 1989 European Environmental Film Festival for The North Sea series; and was awarded the 1997 Tyneside Innovation Award for Pioneers of Broadcasting, an interactive CD-ROM about the history of the BBC in the region. His films have been shown in Norway, Holland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the USA. In 1996 he was responsible for the BBC’s regional coverage of the Year of Visual Arts, and recently he has been responsible for the BBC coverage of the Capital of Culture bid, Music Live and the BALTIC opening. In summer 2004 Mark was elected Chair of the BBC Nations & Regions Division of the entertainment union BECTU and has taken full-time responsibilities for the union inside the BBC. Outside television:
He loves the theatre, the visual arts, a good read, cricket and Nottingham Forest - not necessarily in that order. He is married to Jill, and regards the North East as the last socially civilised place in England to live, despite the recent referendum! |
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