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Mark Routhier

Mark’s New Orleans directing credits include Orange Flower Water at the Elm Theatre, Cat’s-Paw with InsideOut Prod. at the Allways Lounge and Theatre, The Santaland Diaries with A.J. Allegra at Le Chat Noir, The Piano Teacher, Opus, and The Seafarer at SRT, as well as Zombie Town: A Documentary Play and Love Child for Southern Rep @ Le Chat Noir. Bay Area and Regional credits include: Orlando Shakes (Opus), Magic Theatre (Monkey Room), Encore Theatre (Skin, The Bone Man of Benares, 70 Scenes of Halloween), Golden Thread (Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes, Compression of a Casualty, Coming Home), Best of Playground (Net, I’ll be Home for Christmas), Impact Theatre (Cartoon). He directed Debauchery!, an ongoing live soap opera by Pat Bourgeois, and oversaw 6x6 (6 ten minute plays by 6 local playwrights) during the 10/11 season, both part of the Wednesday Night Series for Southern Rep @ Le Chat Noir. He directed The Streetcar Project, a workshop of A Streetcar Named Desire with InsideOut Productions at The New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane. He’s also directed workshops with playwrights Eisa Davis, Annie Baker, Marisa Wegrzyn, Rajiv Joseph, Carly Mensch, Lia Romeo, Susan Stanton, and Chris Chen. He dramaturged Peter McElligott’s With a Bang for Southern Rep among many others. In 11/12, he will be working at Orlando Shakes as Associate Director of New Play Development. He will also be teaching directing at UCF. He taught acting at Loyola University in New Orleans. He was Associate AD at Southern Rep. He was Literary Manager and then Director of Artistic Development at Magic Theatre in San Francisco. He served on the Executive Committee for the National New Play Network (NNPN) for five years. Mark received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. And he is a proud member of the NOLA Project!!!