Meet Mark Workman
Mark Workman grew up in Petersburg, Virginia. As a child, he wanted to be a herpetologist, studying reptiles and amphibians, until he discovered Alice Cooper and Kiss. From that day forward, he was mad about rock ‘n’ roll and dreamed of a career in the music business.
In 1979, at age nineteen, Mark left the mountains of West Virginia, where he had lived with his grandmother for three years while working as a coal miner. He traveled across the U.S. on a Trailways bus to Hollywood, where he didn’t know a soul, to find a way into the music business. With only a hundred dollars to his name, Mark found a day job and enrolled in Los Angeles City College at night, where he studied electronics technology.
Three years later, Mark got his break in the music business and began working as the lighting director for the rock band Steeler. For the next 33 years, he traveled the world as a tour manager and lighting designer with many famous rock bands, such as Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Danzig, Testament, and Machine Head. In 2015, Mark left the music business and started a new life. He went to work for a major drug and alcohol treatment center in Malibu, California, studied hard in the early morning hours, and earned his certification as a drug and alcohol counselor. Promoted three times, he rose to the position of facilities manager. After four years there, the pandemic hit. He retired and began writing and developing his debut novel, Forever We Dream.