Mark is the Director of New Play Development at The NOLA Project where he runs their Rough Draught Reading Series. He most recently directed Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman.  Before that, the World Premiere of Pete McElligott's new adaptation of The Three Musketeers at the Besthoff Sculpture Garden at NOMA in spring, 2018 and Gabrielle Reisman's Flood City in their 16/17 season.  He is the ensemble liaison to TNP's Executive Board.  

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     Recent out-of-town credits include Hand to God by Robert Askins and Hir  by Taylor Mac at Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis and The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh with Beth Marshall Presents... in Orlando, FL.

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     Mark was the Director of New Play Development at Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF, where he was a tenure-tracked Assistant Professor in Directing and Acting.  Mark directed productions of Bad Dog, The Best of Enemies, Pluto, The Cortez Method, Sense and Sensibility, God of Carnage, Opus, and Charlotte’s Web for Orlando Shakespeare Theater.  He ran PlayFest! presented by Harriett’s Charitable Trust, OST’s new play festival. Pluto by Steve Yockey was part of an NNPN Rolling World Premiere.  Bad Dog by Jennifer Hoppe-House had a second production in the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival at Olney Theatre Center in Washington, DC.  At Theatre UCF, he directed The Importance of Being Earnest, Deborah Zoe Laufer’s Leveling Up (KCTCAF Excellence in Directing) and Kelly Lusk’s (a love story).  Mark would have stayed at this, one of his favorite jobs, if it were not in Orlando, Florida, home of strip malls and theme parks.

 

     In New Orleans, Mark’s NOLA Project directing credits include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Best Production and Best Director of 2014, Times-Picayune. And winner of 5 Big Easy Awards including Best Director of a Drama) and a co-production of Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead with The NOLA Project and Cripple Creek Theatre Co. (Best Production and Best Director of 2012, Times-Picayune. And winner of 2 Big Easy Awards including Best Director of a Drama).  Other New Orleans credits include Orange Flower Water at the Elm Theatre (Big Easy Award for Best Director of a Drama, 2011), Cat’s-Paw with InsideOut Prod. at the Allways Lounge and Theatre, The Santaland Diaries with A.J. Allegra at Le Chat Noir. He was Associate Artistic Director at Southern Rep in New Orleans where he directed The Piano Teacher, Opus, and The Seafarer, as well as Zombie Town: A Documentary Play and Love Child for Southern Rep @ Le Chat Noir.  He directed the world premieres of John Biguenet’s Mold, the third installation of his Rising Water Trilogy, and Freedom by Joyce Pulitzer, Sean Patterson, David Seelig and Kitty Greenberg at Southern Rep.

 

     Mark served as the Literary Chair and Vice President on the Executive Committee of the National New Play Network over five years. He helped oversee and directed in five NNPN MFA Playwright Workshops at the Kennedy Center.  He was the Literary Manager and then the Director of Artistic Development at Magic Theatre in San Francisco.  His favorite San Francisco productions were Kevin Fisher’s Monkey Room at the Magic Theatre, an adaptation of Terry Tarnoff’s The Boneman of Benares, and Steve Yockey’s Skin with Encore Theatre, and the NNPN Rolling World Premiere of Yussef el Guindi’s Jihad Jones and Kalashnikov Babes with Golden Thread.

 

He received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. 

 

He is now based in Freeport, Maine.

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