15: Bringing Together Artists to Create 24 Hour Plays with Mark Armstrong

Talking Theater

English - July 11, 2017 21:57 - 34 minutes - 27.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
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Mark Armstrong is a Brooklyn-based theater director and the Executive Director for The 24 Hour Plays, where he recently oversaw the 16th annual The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway.

Mark spent four years as the Director of New Work for off-Broadway’s Keen Company, where he created the Keen Playwrights Lab for mid-career playwrights and led Keen Teens.

Mark spent three years as the Literary Director for Playscripts, Inc. His writing has appeared in American Theatre, HowlRound and the Brooklyn Rail.

And, as Artistic Director of The Production Company, he directed premiere productions of Dan O’Brien’s The Angel in the Trees, Blair Singer’s Meg’s New Friend and The Most Damaging Wound, Alan Berks’ Goats, and many more.

Mark is a proud member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and Lincoln b Center Theater Directors Lab.

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