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MARK GUARINO is the writer of numerous plays with critically received productions.
The Chicago Tribune called him a writer who “is beginning to get national attention, and you can see why” and whose “prose is rich, evocative and strange.” The newspaper also called his past work “fresh, heart-rending” with dialogue that “has a freshly minted sound.” The Chicago Sun-Times said his work “has a touch of the absurdist … and a deep appreciation for the tricks of memory. He also has a sharp ear for contemporary life and psychology.”
His productions include OVERNIGHT LOWS (Walkabout Theater), WE HATE THE WORLD (Zebra Crossing) PARTIAL POST and PREGNANT PAUSE (Curious Theater Branch) and many short, adventuresome plays produced at the Hideout, the Chicago rock club.
His full-length musical play, ALL THE FAME OF LOFTY DEEDS, a collaboration with the Welsh-born punk musician and painter Jon Langford (Mekons, Waco Brothers), was partially developed by Victory Gardens in Chicago. It will receive its world premiere in November 2009 as the first show of the 2009-2010 season of the House Theatre of Chicago.
His full-length play FROM HUTCHINSON STREET is the winner of the 2006 Hidden River Arts Playwriting Competition (Philadelphia). He is the recent recipient of the 2007 Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., underwritten by the estate of Tennessee Williams. In 2001, the conference awarded him a Tennessee Williams Scholarship.
In 2006 and 2007, he was named a resident artist at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. In 2007 and 2008, he was named a resident artist and awarded artist fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT.
He is also the past recipient of the national New Play Prize by Prop Theatre in Chicago, the John Gerrietts Award for Creative Writing from Loyola University Chicago and is a four-time finalist of the Chesterfield Film Project Fellowship.
His play, PARTIAL POST is published in the anthology, 35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays by Dramatic Publishing. |
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