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Biography

Mark Sepulveda is a versatile Entertainer known for performances in Film, Musical Theatre, Television and Opera. He is known for portraying the role of Johnny Lazia in Nelly Don The Musical Movie which premiered in 2023 and as of 2025 is still running in Theaters. The Film has been the recipient of many awards in film festivals from the midwest to New York and even internationally in Paris France. In regional Theater he is known for such roles as Enoch Snow in Carousel, Lieutenant Cable in South Pacific, Padre in Man of La Mancha. He had much success as Enoch Snow in Carousel on stages from Hollywood to Kansas City. Musical Theatre Heritage presented him in the role in the 75th anniversary production of Carousel at Crown Center in Kansas City in March 2020 which was canceled due to the pandemic. In August of 2021 He Originated the Roles of Lazia/Stark/Beach in the premier reading of Truman and Pendergast a new musical by Terence O'Malley and Daniel Doss. Most recently he was onstage at The Quality Hill Playhouse in Christmas in Song 2024. At Music Theater Heritage he has Played Squire Dap/Reveler 5 in Camelot and Henry Etches in Titanic. In 2024 he was seen nationally on television and social media as a featured Ballet Football Player in The State Farm Commercial with Aidan Hutchinson of the Detroit Lions. On local television he has made many media appearances including Salsa Dancing on KMBC 9 in addition to being interviewed by almost all other TV and radio channels the Kansas City area.  

Mark is an Alumnus of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, College of the Performing Arts (AMDA) Los Angeles, and holds a BFA in Music Theatre. He was a finalist in the John Raitt Awards for his performance in Les Misérables.

in Opera he has been heard as Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with Landlocked Opera of Kansas City, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Opera in the Ozarks. He graduated with his performance certificate in Voice/Opera from The University of Missouri Kansas City in May 2020, While a student at the conservatory he performed Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas and Dr. Blind in Die Fledermaus. As a member of the UCLA opera workshop, he worked with Peter Kazaras, noted international stage director, and performed the roles of Jo The Loiterer in The Mother of Us All as well as Hans in the world premiere of The Emperor’s New Clothes. He has studied voice with Julian Fielder, Vinson Cole and Dale Morehouse. He has also worked with James Conlon of The Los Angeles Opera, Daniel Beckwith of the Metropolitan Opera, Ward Holmquist, James Lent, Michele Scanlon, Louis Menendez, James Maverick and Richard Williams. Mark currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri and is honored to be working amongst many great artists here in the community.He looks forward to performing and sharing music worldwide.

© 2021 by Mark Sepulveda

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