Mark Monday-Associate Artistic Director
Mark Monday is a professional actor, director, and faculty member in the School of Theatre and Dance at Kent State University where he serves as Head of the MFA Acting Program. Mark earned his MFA in Acting from West Virginia University and his BFA in Acting from the conservatory program at North Carolina School of the Arts. Monday is a Certified Teacher in the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique and is a member of the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA).
Prior to Kent State, Monday taught at Ohio University, Fairmont State University, University of Georgia, and most recently Santa Clara University in California. While in Bay Area, Mark acted in Smoke On The Mountain at Tabard Theatre, Waiting For Lefty at Fess Parker Studio Theatre, and with Danny Glover in The California Innocence Project. During his tenure at Santa Clara, Mark was hired by the United States Army to act and teach the Michael Chekhov technique at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, (S.H.A.P.E.) base, near Mons, Belgium. There he played Lt. Col. Jessup in A Few Good Men and taught Chekhov workshops to civilians and military personnel from every NATO nation. At Porthouse Theatre, Mark has appeared as Eli Whitney in Anything Goes, Charlie Cowell in The Music Man, and Erronius in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Last fall he played Mr. Meeker in Inherit the Wind at The Cleveland Playhouse.
Mark’s extensive directing credits include favorites: Three Sisters, King Lear, Once On This Island, The Learned Ladies, As You Like It, Wonderful Town, Moby Dick-Rehearsed, and sadly, the final professional production of Seven Guitars prior to the death of August Wilson.
Monday has a long list of fight directing assignments including King Richard’s Renaissance Faire, Chicago Renaissance Faire, Richard III, Three Musketeers, Tom Jones, and A View From the Bridge. As a composer, Mark has written music for North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, North Carolina Medieval Faire at Castle McCullough, and for university productions across the U.S.
Mark is proud to be an Associate Artistic Director and Founding Member of the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium and looks forward, with his colleagues, to introduce the work of Michael Chekhov to many aspiring and professional actors, and teachers.
Mark Monday
| E-Mail: | mmonday@kent.edu |
| Phone: | 330.672-0113 |
| Address: | School of Theatre and Dance, Kent State University P.O. Box 5190 •Kent, OH • 44242-0001 |
| website: | www.theatre.kent.edu |
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