Mark Jones brings his singular style to two distinct formats, each designed to engage and inspire audiences with authenticity and impact.
The Theatrical Experience
Mark's signature one-man show combines immersive storytelling with astonishing mentalism. Expect a journey of shared humanity, unexpected connections, and profound insights, all wrapped in a captivating stage performance.
Speaking & Live Performance
Dr. Mark Jones performs intimate, small-room one-man shows that blend storytelling, mentalism, and raw human connection. Anchored by his signature piece 'Rewind,' each performance is a unique, unrepeatable experience — not a lecture, not a workshop, not a seminar. Just one man, one stage, and the truth.
Available for private events, corporate gatherings, wineries, and intimate venues throughout Southern California.
Every performance is built from real life — military service, law enforcement, family, loss, and the strange clarity that comes from standing next to people on their worst day. The mentalism isn't a trick bolted on. It's woven in. By the time you realize what happened, it's already personal.
REWIND
10–15 minutes. Standalone piece.
A father. A son. A Walkman found in a nightstand after it was too late to ask why.
JUST HERE
Full-length one-man show.
A full evening built from real life, told in real time. Funny, brutal, and true.
REWIND
A Walkman. A Nightstand. A Room Willing to Feel Something.
A father who never said much. A son who talked too much. And a Walkman found in a nightstand after it was too late to ask why it was there.
Rewind is a solo performance about the things people leave behind when they can't say what they feel. It's part grief story, part love letter, and it ends with something you won't see coming — because the audience becomes part of the story.
No stage tricks. No smoke. Just a man, a Walkman, and a room willing to feel something.
JUST HERE
The Full Evening. The Full Truth.
Just Here is the full evening — a one-man show built from real life, told in real time. It moves through military service, law enforcement, family, loss, and the strange clarity that comes from standing next to people on their worst day.
The stories are funny, brutal, and true. The mentalism effects are woven into the narrative — not bolted on — so by the time you realize what just happened, it's already personal.
Available For
Theaters
Festivals
Corporate Events
Private Engagements
Military Service
Three decades of lived experience that shaped every story on stage.
Law Enforcement
Real command decisions. Real consequences. Real material.
Family & Loss
The caregiving years. The silence after. The things found in nightstand drawers.
Mentalism
Woven into the narrative — not bolted on. By the time you realize it, it's personal.
The Writing
Words That Don't Flinch.
Mark Jones is a published writer whose work explores caregiving, grief, military service, and the weight of things left unsaid. The same direct, experience-first voice he carries on stage lives on the page — no clinical distance, no expert posture, just one person telling the truth about what happened.
The War Horse
Mark is a contributing writer for The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization covering the military community. His published essays bring the same direct, experience-first voice he carries on stage — no clinical distance, no expert posture, just one person telling the truth about what happened.
Not Always Kind: A Family Member's Guide to the End of Life
A 72-page memoir chronicling the caregiving journey through both parents' final chapters — from diagnosis to hospice to the silence after. Written with his wife Stephanie as his partner through every mile of it. The book is honest about the parts nobody prepares you for: the guilt, the paperwork, the humor that shows up at the wrong time, and the things you find in a nightstand drawer after it's all over. Currently pursuing traditional publication.
Speaking & Corporate Events
The Same Presence. A Different Stage.
Mark brings the same presence to a podium that he brings to a stage. His speaking engagements draw from three decades of leadership in federal law enforcement, military service, and the lived experience of caregiving — wrapped in storytelling that keeps a room locked in.
The Quiet Leadership Problem
What happens when the people in charge stop talking and start performing. Drawn from real command experience.
Grief Doesn't Clock Out
For healthcare professionals, first responders, and caregivers who carry the weight home. Not a lecture — a conversation.
The Walkman Talk
A keynote built around the Rewind story. Connection, loss, and why the things we leave behind say more than the things we say out loud. Includes a live mentalism experience.
He Didn't Start as a Performer. He Started as a Marine.
After the military, he spent three decades in law enforcement — rising to Deputy Chief of Police, graduating from the FBI National Academy (234th Session), and earning a doctorate in education along the way. He's led teams, testified in court, made decisions that followed him home, and learned that the hardest conversations happen in hallways, not conference rooms.
Then both his parents got sick.
The caregiving years changed him. Not in the way people talk about on podcasts — in the way that makes you sit in your car in the driveway for twenty minutes before you go inside. He started writing about it. Then performing it. Then he realized the stage was where the stories belonged.
The Journey
A Life That Built the Show.
1
The Marines
Where it started. Discipline, brotherhood, and the first lessons in what leadership actually costs.
2
Three Decades in Law Enforcement
Deputy Chief of Police. FBI National Academy, 234th Session. Decisions that followed him home.
3
The Doctorate
Education as a lens. Learning to articulate what experience had already taught him.
4
The Caregiving Years
Both parents. Diagnosis to hospice to silence. The chapter that changed everything.
5
The Stage
Published writer. Trained mentalist. Storyteller. The place where the stories finally belonged.
Mark is a published writer (The War Horse), a trained mentalist, and a storyteller who builds shows from the material most people keep to themselves. He lives in Southern California with his wife Stephanie, who was beside him through every chapter worth telling.
30+
Years of Leadership
Federal law enforcement and military service combined.
234
FBI National Academy
Session number — one of the most selective law enforcement programs in the world.
72
Pages of Memoir
Not Always Kind — the caregiving story nobody prepares you for.
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Man on Stage
No ensemble. No tricks. Just the stories and the room.
Book
Let's Talk.
For booking inquiries, private events, speaking engagements, or press. Based in Southern California — available worldwide.
Live Shows
Theaters, festivals, and private engagements. REWIND or JUST HERE.