MARK ROBERT GORDON has had two distinct careers: one in the legal profession (specializing in election protection and voting rights law (Constitutional and civil rights issues), entertainment law, and political strategy) and the other in the entertainment field (actor, director, writer, producer, model).
MRG has been involved in voting rights and the election protection space since the 1990s later becoming a federal law Election Protection & Voting Rights Attorney. He has designed and run election integrity programs for political parties, candidates, and NGOs nationwide, and has served as an election protection attorney nationwide on federal Constitutional issues and voting rights concerns. His approach to election integrity and voting rights is nonpartisan in nature–simply aiming to ensure that the Constitutional and statutory rights of every citizen, regardless of political party, are preserved and protected.
MRG’s Entertainment Law practice includes handling a comprehensive array of transactional matters for stage and screen producers and creative personnel. He has also handled personal representation of artists (including celebrities), entertainment industry executives, and producers. His clients have included Off-Broadway producers and general managers, independent film producers, actors, directors, playwrights, screenwriters, and visual artists. He has also represented regional theaters and not-for-profit producers.
MRG has served at varying levels as a strategist, advisor, attorney, analyst/researcher, and/or speechwriter to U.S. Presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, gubernatorial, and state legislative candidates and the Democratic Party and been involved in dozens of campaigns since 1984. He currently represents Arizona as an elected Democratic National Committeeman (where he also serves as an elected officer of the DNC Small Business Council and member of the DNC Labor Council, Disability Caucus, LGBTQ+ Caucus, Veterans & Military Families Council, and Western States Caucus), Democratic State Committee Member and Precinct Committeeperson, and board member of the Arizona AFL-CIO (SAG-AFTRA delegate); he is former chair of the Arizona Democratic Law Professionals Association and former Election Protection Director of the Maricopa County Democratic Party. He has been a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 2016, 2020, and 2024.
MRG’s commitment to public service includes having logged hundreds of hours in pro bono legal representation of and service to not-for-profit organizations, individuals, and various worthy causes including numerous theater organizations, Jewish agencies, at-risk youth service providers, and LGBTQ civil rights and anti-discrimination groups. Combining his public service and artistic interests in forming the not-for-profit Off-Broadway company Do Gooder Productions, MRG helped raise funds and profiles for multiple New York City charities including: The Actors’ Fund of America, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Committee for Hispanic Children & Families, and agencies serving at-risk LGBT youth. He currently serves on not-for-profit Boards in New York City and Phoenix.
MRG’s entertainment career spans from artistic to producing ends. He has served as the Founding Artistic/Executive Director of Do Gooder Productions since its establishment in 1994. MRG’s production company, The Camelback Kid, has multiple projects slated for film, Broadway, and Off-Broadway productions, and has managed performance venues in New York City (Off-Broadway) and Florida. He has produced nine Off-Broadway plays (including the critically-acclaimed, year-long run of 2 1/2 Jews), directed at several NYC and regional venues, been a critically-acclaimed actor on NYC’s and regional theater scenes with additional film and TV credits (including a 5-year recurring stint on “Guiding Light”), and authored five plays. His screenplay adaptation of 2 1/2 Jews has been optioned for film production and he is currently developing a TV dramedy “Zonies” (a serial about quirky Arizona characters). As a print model, his image was featured in numerous national marketing campaigns for Bizcom, Guess, and others.
Education:
- Princeton University (A.B., Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs and Afro-American Studies)
- Columbia University School of Law(J.D.; AILE Scholar, pursued undergraduate and legal degrees concurrently)
- Harvard University (M.P.A., John F. Kennedy School of Government)
Bar Admissions:
- District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, U.S. District Court of New Jersey, U.S. Supreme Court
Major Speeches & Presentations:
- Commercial Theater Institute (CTI), Columbia University, Harvard University, Princeton University; over 200 political events
Publications:
- “The Microbicidal Potential of Various Creosotebush (Larrea Tridentata) Extracts” (Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science)
- Public School Choice Rhetoric and Reality: Interdistrict Open Enrollment in Minnesota & Metropolitan St. Louis(Princeton University thesis)
- Poetry and Prose published in Sensations Magazine and Princeton University-Wu Literary Review; Screenwriter: 2 1/2 Jews; Playwright: “H”: Hamilton or Honour, My Soul is Mine (Off-Broadway, 1995), R’fua: Healing, Did You Evuh?, Nevuh!