Mark Borkowski attended King's Stanley Junior School and St Peters High School in Gloucester and began working in public relations at nineteen years old.
11 Facts About Mark Borkowski
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Mark Borkowski has a column in The Guardian and has written two books on publicity stunts as related to public relations and has won several awards for his work.
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Mark Borkowski moved on to the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in 1981.
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Mark Borkowski has had a long association with the Edinburgh Festival; to publicise Archaos, the grunge circus, he organised a series of jumps on motorbikes over traffic queues in the centre of Edinburgh in 1988 and staged the first UK Cowpat flinging competition to launch Hank Wangford at the Festival in 1989.
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Mark Borkowski is a regular TV and radio pundit on PR, the media and celebrity, often attacking the celebrity industry whilst still working within it.
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In 1994 Mark Borkowski created a cause celebre and front page outrage when he publicised the London production of the controversial religious rock musical Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom.
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In 1996 Mark Borkowski ran a "wild, rock'n'roll campaign" for Carlsberg-Tetley's Thickhead brand of alcopops that resulted in a huge media backlash against alcopops, which were already controversial, and the withdrawal of the product within hours of its launch.
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Mark Borkowski has written two books on the subject of publicity stunts.
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Mark Borkowski was allegedly once expelled from the BBC for letting scorpions loose in a Green Room to promote the Jim Rose Sideshow tour in the UK; he arranged for the question writer to walk an elephant into a betting shop to promote Trivial Pursuit.
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Mark Borkowski's company won the Gold Award from PR Week for Campaign of the Year in 2008 for their Wispa social networking campaign to relaunch the chocolate bar.
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Mark Borkowski has written two histories of public relations, focusing in particular on the art of the publicity stunt.