Mark Lutwak

Director of Education, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (2008 to 2015)
Manager for programs that serve 50,000+ children and family members a year in the Greater Cincinnati Area, including:
➢ age-appropriate touring plays for schools and community venues;
➢ collaborations & partnerships with libraries, churches, arts groups and other institutions;
➢ commissioning and developing new plays for young people;
➢ children’s performance series featuring national artists;
➢ master storyteller performances and workshops in schools;
➢ in-school integrated arts education workshops;
➢ acting classes for children and adults.
Responsibilities included directing plays and workshops; teaching; departmental budgeting including monthly projections; grant writing; recruitment and management of post-graduate acting intern program; representing the Playhouse in the community for outreach, marketing and development. (list of 16 plays directed on request)

Freelance Director focus on new plays and plays for multi-generational audiences. (1976-present)
(representative projects below)

Artistic Director, Honolulu Theatre for Youth (June 1999–May 2005)
Professional actors performing for 125,000 young people and families a year on the six main islands of Hawai`i. Selection & oversight of 8-play season, including 25 premieres in 6 years; directing 3-5 plays annually; new artist development included writers’ programs and actor training; outreach; development; shared management. Developed working partnerships with Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, Hawai‘i Opera Theatre, Honolulu Academy of Arts, State Library System, Read To Me America, Japanese Cultural Center, Arizona Memorial Museum, Sex Abuse Treatment Center, Non-Violence Hotline, and other organizations. (list of 24 plays directed on request)

Executive Director, Rain City Projects (1991–99)
Northwest playwrights’ service organization. Published scripts sold at theatres, presented “Night of 1,000 Playwrights” and readings, published theatre journal PLATFORM, awarded travel grants; etc.

Director/producer/writer of Interactive Media (1991–1999)
Award-winning interactive educational products for Videodiscovery, Holt-Reinhardt, Scholastic, National Science Foundation, National Institutes for Health (NIH) and Edmark. Awards at New York Film Festival, National Educational Film & Video Festival, Curriculum Product News “District Choice Award,” Media Magazine “Invisions” at Comdex, Software Publisher’s Association.

Freelance writer and editor (1983–present)
Elementary and high school language arts, literature, science, and mathematics textbooks and multimedia for major publishers, including Educurious, Prentice Hall, ProQuest, Macmillan, Harcourt Brace/HBJ, Scribners, Houghton Mifflin, Ginn-Silver Burdett, McGraw Hill, and Bess Press. Senior editor for 18 months at Harcourt. Environmental engineering proposals and reports, magazine articles, arts grant proposals, press releases, documentation, and user manuals. (Separate resume on request.)

Program Director, Taller Latinoamericano (1979–1981)
Produced, scheduled, and marketed music, theatre, and other performance events for multi-cultural arts center.

Artistic Director, Theatre for Your Mother (1977–1983)
Touring theatre company; San Francisco Bay Area schools, old-age homes, prisons, and theatres; produced theatre, concerts, & record albums in NYC.

Musician. Composer, keyboardist & accordionist. (1976-present)
Perform and record original music, including sound design and music for theatre, dance and film. (Separate resume on request.)

Awards, Fellowships, Memberships
Member, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers (SDC) California Community Theatre Festival, 1st Place for original play, 1971; NEA Directors Fellowship, 1983; New Directors Project, New York Theatre Workshop, 1985; Best of the New Generation, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1986; Panelist, Seattle Arts Commission, 1996; founding Board member, Theatre Puget Sound; Po‘okela Award (Best Overall Play), 1999; Board member, Hawai‘i State Theatre Council, 2003; National Jury, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, 2005; panelist, Hawai`i State Arts Council, 2005; panelist, Culture Works, 2009; Board member, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, 2008-present; panelist, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, 2015.

Selected freelance directing projects
New York
Happy Worst Day Ever                            Arlene Hutton           NY Fringe Festival
Special Interests                                      Joe Sutton                Working Theatre
Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants.              Y York                      The New Theatre of Brooklyn
As It Is In Heaven                                    Joe Sutton                New York Theatre Workshop
The Nain Rouge                                       Mac Wellman            Divine Theatre
Mud                                                          Maria Irene Fornes    New York Theatre Workshop
Los Cronopios No Mueren                       Julio Cortazar            The Latin-American Workshop
Michi’s Blood                                            Franz Xaver Kroetz   Creation Productions
The Cell                                                    Harold Kimmel          Henry Street Playhouse
Kaspar                                                      Peter Handke            18th Street Playhouse  
The Tattooer                                             Tanizaki/Lutwak         Studio Henry
That Time                                                  Samuel Beckett         Soundscape
Coupled                                                     Richard Ploetz           Ensemble Studio Theatre

NYC Workshops, readings, & performance art
New Dramatists, Lark New Play Development Center, New York Shakespeare Festival, Provincetown Playhouse, Primary Stages, CSC Repertory, Double Image Theatre, HOME for Contemporary Art, New York Stage & Film, New Theatre of Brooklyn, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Franklin Furnace, Interaction Arts Foundation, Mudd Club, Kazuko Hirobayashi Studio, Avantgardarama, Artists Call, PS 122.

Regional
Sycorax                                                     Y York                         Snowflake Avalanche/18th & Union (Seattle)
Driving Miss Daisy                                    Alfred Uhry                  Carnegie Theatre (KY)
Krisit                                                          Y York                         Clifton Performance Theatre (OH)
Eggs                                                          Y York                         People’s Light & Theatre (PA)
The Nina Variations                                   Steven Dietz               Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Bleachers in the Sun                                 Y York                         Smashbox Productions (HI)
Cyrano                                                      Jo Roets/Rostand       Cyrano’s Off-Center Playhouse (AK)
Framed                                                     Y York                          Smashbox Productions
You Somebody                                          Cataluna/Beamer        Diamond Head Theatre (HI)
Complete History of America (Abridged)   Long, Martin et al        Manoa Valley Theatre (HI)
It Comes Around                                        Y York                         Theatre Under the Influence (Seattle)
The Wild Goose Circus                              Russell Davis              Annex Theatre (Seattle)
Black Market                                              Joe Sutton                   Annex Theatre
The Snowflake Avalanche                         Y York                         Seattle Group Theatre
High Strangeness                                      Todd Alcott                  Annex Theatre
The Last Good Moment of Lily Baker        Russell Davis              George St. Playhouse (NJ) & Annex
Play                                                            Samuel Beckett          Williamstown Theatre Festival (MA)
Three Stories                                             Phil Bosakowski          Williamstown Theatre Festival
One For The Road                                     Harold Pinter               Williamstown Theatre Festival
Equus                                                         Peter Schaefer            Theatre for Your Mother (Bay Area)
The Birthday Party                                     Harold Pinter               Theatre for Your Mother
Endgame                                                   Samuel Beckett           Theatre for Your Mother
You Know I Can’t Hear You
           When the Water’s Running             Robert Anderson         The Road Show (LA)

Regional Workshops, readings, & play development
Kennedy Center New Visions/New Voices Festival, Bonderman Festival, New Harmony Project, Southern Repertory Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Playwrights’ Theatre of New Jersey, Seattle Playwrights’ Alliance, ASK Theatre Projects, Lake George Theatre Festival.

Professional Family & Children’s Theatre

A Plantation Celebration                             multiple writers        Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Fly                              Y York                      Milwaukee First Stage
Cyrano                                                        Jo Roets/Rostand    Cincinnati Fringe Festival
Happy Worst Day Ever                               Arlene Hutton           Last Frontier Theatre Festival
River Rat and Cat                                       Y York                      ChildsPlay, AZ
Nothing is the Same                                   Y York                      Seattle Children’s Theatre
New Kid                                                      Dennis Foon            Honolulu Theatre for Youth
The Last Paving Stone                               Y York                      Idaho Theatre for Youth
Frog and Toad (Forever)                            Y York                      Seattle Children’s Theatre
The Portrait. The Wind. The Chair.            Y York                      Seattle Children’s Theatre
The Short Tree & the Bird
              Who Couldn’t Sing                        Dennis Foon            Seattle Children’s Theatre
Green Eggs & Ham/Gertrude McFuzz        Seuss/Kapilow         Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Afternoon of the Elves                                Y York                       Milwaukee First Stage

As education director for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, directed 17 plays. As artistic director for HTY, directed 25 plays including more than a dozen world premieres. (Separate list on request.)

Teaching
Arizona State University West, Leeward Community College (Hawai‘i), Cornish College for the Arts (Seattle), Last Frontier Playwriting Festival (Valdez), University of Alaska (Anchorage), Ohio University, Marshall University (WV), as well as through my positions at Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

Member, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers
 

Professions/skills: Musician;Educator;Dramaturg;Director