Mark Royse Information

MARK ROYSE is a creative professional with 30+ years of experience. He is a stage-trained audiobook narrator & voice actor (audiobooks’ eccentric gay uncle). He is partial to LGBTQ+ fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, thrillers, and horror. He is also an excellent choice for medical narration, e-learning, corporate explainers, and other narration that requires a warm, trustworthy, articulate, and educated voice. Mark is a seasoned non-profit executive currently serving as the General Manager of RADIOLEX, Lexington, Kentucky’s community radio. He is the former executive director of AVOLKY (AIDS Volunteers of Kentucky, Inc.) and has worked with a variety of other local non-profits including JustFundKY, LexArts, and Beaux-Arts Ball. Mark is skilled in philanthropy, grant writing, strategic planning, and community engagement. Mark is an award-winning creative director, copywriter, and graphic designer with advertising agency experience. As a published poet, essayist, and short story author, Mark understands storytelling from the inside out. A longtime meditator, Mark has practiced with celebrity Buddhist teachers and anonymous alcoholics. He is based in Lexington, KY. Fun career highlights: ~ Collaborated with 20th Century Fox as a buyer for J. Peterman Company, selling costumes and props from the blockbuster film Titanic, including a red-carpet premiere appearance. ~ In party-monster era New York, worked at Circle Rep Theater on Joyce Carol Oates’ off-Broadway play, The Truth-Teller. ~ As communications director at the University of Kentucky College of Design, Mark helped craft the nomination that listed the Kentucky Bluegrass as a World Monuments Fund endangered landscape.