Mark H.

Mark H. – A native of Washington, DC, Mark’s Columbia University directing credits include: King Lear, The Cherry Orchard, The Henry Dumas Project, A Haunting, And You Try to Become a Bird. Other directing credits include: Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea for the 2014 DC Source Festival; Fires in the Mirror at Howard University; Blood Knot with Company 608; Marisol and Topdog/Underdog with Rutgers Theatre Company; Movin' On and The Handshake at Forum Theatre's (Re)Acts Festival, Ms. Washington at DC Hip-Hop Theater Festival, and Like Father, Like Son with Young Playwrights' Theater. Along with having directed various staged readings, Mark was the assistant director of Not About Nightingales at Howard University's Ira Aldridge Theater, and Broke-ology at Theater Alliance in DC, and has also worked extensively as an actor. He received his BFA in Acting from Rutgers University, and was classically trained at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Mark is currently pursuing an MFA in directing at Columbia University School of the Arts, where he was a recipient of the prestigious Dean’s Fellowship.