Mark D. Messersmith Email & Phone Number

Moffett Field, Ca

Office Manager with various administrative duties, specializing in NASA bureaucracy, shipping/mail room, documentation, model dept., travel, and Facility Manager for the Main Base Auditorium(ran light/sound boards, liaison with visiting guests, set up on person mics/physical mics for questions, presentations with projector- connections to laptop or other source, filming broadcasts with specialized crew, stage manager on the floor as needed for award shows/guest speakers, ran third camera of three as needed, knew building top to bottom and identified future fixes along with specific clean up, keys.Facility Safety Manager for 5 buildings and the base auditorium, responsible for fire safety checks, environment walk thrus and general maintenance calls. Requires good relationship with facilities staff for lighting, HVAC a/c and heat, water, elevator issues, janitorial.Government Property Manager, responsible for tracking, tagging and documenting new items as well as drive yearly inventory and excessing old property. CAST scheduler for Bldgs 241, 204, 201 auditorium and 203 backup. Trained to help mitigate Covid infection by carefully scheduling building residents to return for ergo/telecommute items and computer/badge appointments; also helping people get on Return To Work Essential and Critical Lists. Also responsible for contacting labs and onsite location managers to set up documentation crews (photo/video), making sure they were on each location's approved entry list, Liaison for setting specific times and dates.

Nasa Ames Research Center

Business Office AdministrationConfiguration Management Conference Administration and logisticsAmes IVO specialistTeam Event Co-Ordinator Civil Servant domestic and foreign travelLocal Kepler Conference Chair I, II & IVFacility Manager POC - HVAC, electrical, constructionVoiceover talent for NASA Kepler Website Transit Hunt

Moffett Field, Ca

Business Office AdministrationAmes International Visit Office specialistCivil Servant domestic and foreign travelLocal Kepler Conference Chair I & IIVoiceover for official NASA Kepler Website Transit Hunt

California, United States

I have not auditioned post-covid and some time before that. I am more interested in Directing and Audiobooks, both of which will use my skills as an actor.Prior to earning my Equity Card, I was in community theater since high school.

South Bay & San Francisco, Ca

Audio description services for the blind and visually impaired - describing 24-30 performances a year. I completed 25 years in total, 20 as Artistic Director of The Visual Voice in Silicon Valley.Recipient of the American Council of the Blind’s Special Recognition for Audio Description Award, 2016. (Corporate winner that same year included Disney: Pixar.)

South Sf Bay

Read and engineer Fiction and Autobiography and textbooks for the blind and visually impaired.(Texts include history, literature, Geology, medical, Phycology, etc. from middle school to post graduate levels). Fiction includes The Martian(Weir), Infinite Jest(Wallace), The Maze Runner(Dashner) - many YA novels in single voice including:A Small Free Kiss in the Dark by Glenda MillardThe Zodiac Legacy: The Dragon's Return by Stan Lee and Stuart MooreSteal Like An Artist: Ten Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin KleonThe Maze Runner by James DashnerLand of Stories: A Grimm Warning by Chris ColferThe Martian by Andy WeirThe Dream Thieves (The Raven Boys #2) by Maggie StiefvaterFar, Far Away by Tom McNealInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceKepler's Dream: An Anthology edited by Steve HowellCandor by Pam Bachorzand five moreFeatured Short stories: The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe

Foothill, Pear Avenue, Theatreworks, San Jose Stage

Worked in Radio at many stations from high school on - many formats (my favorites are oldies and new age/lite jazz) overnights, mid-days at KLRS, love song request shows -commercial production at all, including substitute news anchor at KSCO and KWAV. I eventually started a radio drama show on public radio KUSP in Santa Cruz called Storyline - ran for five years while I was also on KWAV. The radio drama allowed me a creative outlet that commercial radio didn't (unless you counted the commercials). I also loved subbing for the KUSP oldies show with my own 45s and lps - three hour shifts that breezed by in a happy blink. I still do the occasional voiceover and musical demo but I've not put myself into that market. Instead, I read for the blind via Learning Ally each week (just finished INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace; next is A Kepler's Dozen, short stories based on Kepler discoveries). I would love to return to voiceover someday.

Masters, Theatre/Theater, Directing With Honors

Post graduate degree from exclusive directing program (only 4 in my class). School still active in London, England.

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Theatre/Theater

Major: Theater - Directing/Acting Emphasis, concurrent with English - Creative Writing major; Minor: History, Film Studies.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English - Creative Writing

Education record

Activities and Societies: Film Society, Reading novels for the Talking Book and Braille Service via the Nebraska Library Commission.