Mark Salvestro

Mark Salvestro is an actor, playwright and independent theatre producer, newly based in Sydney, having spent the last 10 years in Melbourne, Canberra, and Cooma in regional NSW. He has trained extensively as a performer, including part-time at the Actors Centre Australia in Sydney and full-time at the Howard Fine Acting Studio Australia in Melbourne. His practice focuses on new, intimate storytelling experiences, exploring queer life, regional experiences, history, and themes of coming of age.
Most recently, Mark performed in the acclaimed production of The Flea at New Theatre in Sydney, directed and designed by Patrick Kennedy. Prior to that, he performed in his new play, The Queen’s City of the South, at Qtopia Sydney in October 2024, which is inspired by the history of the Cooma Gaol and its use as a ‘gay prison’ from 1957-1981.
His solo theatre works have toured to critical acclaim with The Will To Be winning a Best Theatre Weekly Award at Adelaide Fringe 2020, and being remounted for performances in Melbourne, Cooma, Queanbeyan, Merimbula and Sydney. Other notable theatre credits include Caravaggio in Canberra Theatre Centre’s production of Chiaroscuro (2021), and Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors with Australian Shakespeare Company’s Graduate Players at Prague Fringe 2018.
While living in Melbourne, Mark co-founded theatre collective North of Eight, for which he performed in productions of Navy Pier (2017) and Strata Inc. (2018).
Short film credits include Something Rotten in the State of Denmark (Pet Rock Films), The Establishment (Dir. Christopher Fulloon), Brawl (Dir. Nadia Townsend), One Foot in the Grave (Dir. Jake Murphy), and Deadline (Dir. Marion Slatter).