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Performance dates: "5 Conversations"
Performance venue: Fisch Haus
Poorman's Theatre Festival: PLAYS Poorman's Theatre Festival: CASTS |
MARK FRANK Mark Frank is enjoying his tenth year as Theatre/Technical Director at Coffeyville Community College, where he has one of the largest community college theatre programs in the state. He has directed and acted in over sixty professional and community productions. Some of his favorites have been Grease, Into the Woods, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Little Shop of Horrors, Agamemnon, Marvin’s Room, Sylvia, Pippin, Titus Andronicus and Charley’s Aunt. During the summer Mark is the Artistic Director of Kid’s Academy and Children’s Summer Theatre. He shares the Artistic Direction of the Rubber Chicken Factory Improvisational Comedy Troupe with his wife Bethanie. He has conducted playwriting, acting, and improvisational comedy workshops at many theatre conventions in the Midwest. He recently directed at the The American College Theatre Festival, The 24 Hour Plays, and The William Inge Festival. Mark was named CCC Professor of the Year in 2000 and was also honored as the Coffeyville Chamber of Commerce Post-Secondary Educator in the year 2000. In 2001, Mark won the NACADA/ACT (National Academic Advising Association) Outstanding Advisor Award. In 2002 Mark became a published playwright having published A Collection of Plays by Mark Frank. His plays have been produced at CCC, ICC, Pace University in New York, and at Colorado State University. He is currently working on his second volume of plays. He has more recently brought his new plays No-Code and Greek Soup to the CCC stage. He has Bachelors in theatre and dance from Viterbo University and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in acting from Western Illinois University. Mark lives in Coffeyville with his wife Bethanie and his cat JD.
JASON BAILEY Jason made his playwrighting debut in 1997, when his original play The Barrel was produced by WIchita State University. Bailey directed the play and adapted it into the screenplay for his fifth feature film, My Day In The Barrel. As Artistic Director of Theatre On Consignment, Jason has directed five previous productions and produced all twelve of the company's plays to date. He is thrilled to direct his first original play in several years and will next adapt 5 Conversations into a screenplay for production immediately after the Festival.
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