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Mark Ritts is an American actor famed mostly for his starring in the TV show Beakman's World. He has had a long and varied career in the United States as a television and video writer, producer, and director. He is also an actor, puppeteer, and published author. In the early 1990's, he was Creative Director of New York City's Aniforms, Inc., a large business communications firm. There, he conceived, wrote, and directed videos, theatrical events, and multimedia presentations for a wide variety of media, industrial and institutional clients.

From 1992 to 1998, he played “Lester,” the guy in the rat suit, on CBS's celebrated science series for kids, Beakman's World. The program was televised in nearly 90 countries around the world, and a "Best Of Beakman" DVD was released by Sony Corporation in September of 2004. During the same period, he was the voice and manipulator of “Kino,” the Emmy Award-winning puppet co-host of PBS's Storytime, as well as one of the show's writers. His one-hour documentary on microbiology, “Creators of the Future,” debuted in prime time on PBS in 1999. Mark is the co-author (with Don Fleming, Ph.D.) of a parenting book entitled “Mom, I Hate You,” released by Three Rivers/Random House in April, 2003. In July, 2005, he and co-producer/writer/director Ted Field released "Cast Off for Catalina," a DVD about visiting and enjoying southern California's Catalina Island aboard your own boat.

A Harvard graduate with a degree in English literature, Mark is married to actress/singer Teresa Parente and has two sons and a daughter.

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