Tom Markus Director Resume

TOM MARKUS

Director and Dramaturg

(858) 999-0119 office

(801) 574-0726 cell

I have directed more than 125 plays — 21 productions of classics, 27 premieres of new plays, 26 productions of Shakespeare’s plays, and 50+ productions of mainstream comedies and dramas. I have ten years experience as artistic director of LORT companies. I have directed internationally, Off-Broadway, and for prominent regional theatres and Shakespeare festivals. Below is a list of my experience as an artistic director and dramaturg, followed by a list of selected directing credits.

PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY – LORT “B”

Director and Dramaturg: Directed six productions; Dramaturg for sixty-three plays over nine seasons

THEATRE BY THE SEA – LORT “D”

Artistic Director: Directed three productions

THEATRE VIRGINIA – LORT “C”

Artistic Director: Directed twenty-nine productions; “Phoebe Award” for best director, twice.

THE THEATER AT MONMOUTH – LORT “D”

THE SHAKESPEAREAN FESTIVAL OF MAINE

Artistic Director: Directed four productions

ROUNDABOUT THEATRE – Off-Broadway

Associate Producing Director: Directed one production

SELECTED DIRECTING CREDITS

INTERNATIONAL

Falaki Theatre, Cairo, Egypt	Autumn in New York, Jackson/Guare/Albee
Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (in Cantonese)	Three Sisters, Chekhov
The National Theatre of Cyprus (in Greek)	Joe Hill: The Man Who Never Died, Stavis
Flinders Theatre Company Australia	Hot l Baltimore, Wilson; Father’s Day, Hailey
Studio Theatre of Paris	Zoo Story, Albee
Mountview Theatre, London	Summertree, Cowen

NEW YORK & COMMERCIAL PRODUCTIONS

Roundabout Theatre	Tug of War, Rossett (premiere)
Primary Stages	White Paint, Pringle (workshop)
79^th St. Lab	Stieglitz Loves O’Keeffe, Robertson (workshop)
Tisch School of the Arts	The Sea Lion, Potter (workshop)
Ivar Theatre, Hollywood	Late Blooming Flowers (premiere)
Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara	Dear Liar

LEAGUE OF RESIDENT THEATRES

Walnut Street Theatre	Isn’t It Romantic, Prisoner of 2^nd Avenue,
	A Perfect Gentleman (premiere),
	Bookends (premiere), Enigma Variations
Pioneer Theatre Company	I’m Not Rappaport, The Miser, Broadway Bound,
	‘Art’, Conversations with My Father,
	The Diary of Anne Frank

TheatreVirginia	Private Lives, Mother Courage, The Misanthrope,
	You Can’t Take It With You, Man and Superman,
	Ghosts, Deathtrap, Arms and the Man, The Father,
	Lion in Winter, Thieves’ Carnival, Room Service,
	The Mistress of the Inn, The Good Doctor, Volpone,
	Cloud 9, Let’s Get a Divorce (Sardou), Dracula,
	The Play’s the Thing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
	The Member of the Wedding, Waiting for Godot,
	As You Like It, Macbeth, plus six new plays, etc.
Theater by the Sea	Joe Egg, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead,
	Gift of the Magi/Diary of Adam and Eve
Merrimack Theatre Company	The Rainmaker, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
Pennsylvania Center Stage	Plaza Suite, Dining Room, Candaules Commissioner,
	Mel Says to Give You His Best (premiere)
Banyan Theatre Company	Enigma Variations
P.A.F. Playhouse, Long Island	The Show Off

SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALS

Oregon Shakespearean Festival	Merry Wives, O Rare Ben Jonson
Utah Shakespeare Festival	Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Waiting for Godot,
	Merry Wives. Hamlet
Georgia Shakespeare Theatre	Troilus and Cressida, Merry Wives
Great Lakes Theatre Festival	As You Like It
Illinois Shakespeare Festival	Othello
California Shakespeare Festival	Othello
The Shakespearean Festival of Maine	She Stoops to Conquer, Hamlet, Volpone,
	As You Like It
Colorado Shakespeare Festival	Henry IV,2, Taming of the Shrew, Othello,
	Merry Wives, Troilus and Cressida,
	Merchant of Venice, Two Gentlemen of Verona,
	Queen Margaret (from the 3 parts of Henry VI)

UNIVERSITIES

Pennsylvania State University	As You Like It
American University in Cairo, Egypt	A Silly Goose (Le Dindon)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas	All My Sons
University of Washington	The Circle, The Private Life of the Master Race
University of California, San Diego	A Flea in Her Ear, Bits ’n Pieces
Florida State University	Benefactors
Temple University	Much Ado About Nothing, The Good Doctor,
	In a Pig’s Eye (premiere)
Purdue University	To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday
University of Utah	Hedda Gabler, Oedipus the King, Between Worlds:
	The Sound of a Voice & Pay the Chinaman

MISCELANEOUS

As an actor, I have worked on Broadway and in regional theatres, and in film & TV.

Author of The Cairo Diaries, A Novel Approach to Theatre, Another Opening, Another Show,

An Actor Behaves -- as well as the play Welcome to Egypt and adaptations for the stage of Volpone,

The Father, A Christmas Carol, Three Sisters, and Feydeau’s A Silly Goose (Le Dindon)

Listed in Who’s Who in the West

Ph.D. from Tulane University and have taught at Yale School of Drama, Temple, Florida State, etc.