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Mark discusses his work with in the Philly theater world of the 1990s and early 2000s, and about the life and work of the designer Hiroshi Iwasaki.
We complete our conversation with the innovative Philadelphia director, teacher and dramaturg Mark Lord.
In this episode we touch on many of Mark's productions that he staged with the Philly performance groups Potlatch, Big House and Headlong Dance Theatre.
The cover art from this episode is a photograph from a work called Pink Melon Joy, staged in 1992, which Mark discusses in this episode.
He also talks about his collaboration with the late designer Hiroshi Iwasaki, and about some of the many students he had the privilege to teach during his years at Bryn Mawr College.
To see images of the plays and people we discussed in our two-part interview with Mark, there is a blog post on our website, here: https://www.aithpodcast.com/blog/begin-again-and-again/
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10:57 - (Cont.) Mark Lord, Part Two
Mark Lord is a native of Springfield, PA, in Delaware County. During his teenage years, he frequently did juvenile roles with the newly founded classical summer theater at Villanova University, performing the Player Queen in a production of Hamlet. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1984, and received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1987.
Returning to the Philly area, and at the age of only 26 was hired as Professor of Theater at Bryn Mawr College. There taught courses in acting, directing, playwriting and performance theory, as well as providing direction and guidance to students in the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Theater Program productions. He has published many insightful journal articles and provocative magazine essays on modern American theater productions and contemporary world theater practice.
Lord himself has worked as a director or dramaturg at many leading non-profit regional theaters, including the Actors Theatre of Louisville and Philadelphia's Wilma Theater. As well as his many years at Bryn Mawr and Haverford, he also taught at the Yale School of Drama, the Curtis Institute and the University of the Arts. He has recently taken Emeritus status at Bryn Mawr and retired from active teaching, but he continues to live in Philadelphia.
As a director, Mark created many works based on the writing of Samuel Beckett as well as a number of previously unstaged pieces by Gertrude Stein. He also directed plays by Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, and August Strindberg.
Starting in 1992, he led a succession of small independent pro… Read More
