Lear

Mark Prince is a stage director who has been creating theatre for over three decades. His career includes the direction and devising of new plays, novel adaptations, applied theatre aimed at knowledge transfer, and the re-imaging of some of the world’s most popular classic plays. Mark has directed plays written by Federico Garcia Lorca (Blood Wedding), Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None), Brandon Thomas (Charley’s Aunt), Anton Chekhov (Uncle Vanya), Peter Shaffer (Equus), and William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, and Much Ado About Nothing). As a stage actor Mark has performed at the world-famous Stratford Festival in Canada. In the UK, he has toured nationally with The Reduced Shakespeare Company, and he has performed in theatres such as The Gielgud Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, Greenwich Theatre, and Theatre Royal Stratford East. Worldwide, Mark has performed with TNT Theatre, a movement and music integrated theatre company that performs in dozens of countries spanning four continents. Mark in the founding member of Jester Collective, a theatre company that strives to support actors in honing their craft as aspiring talent or as veterans returning to the industry. In addition, he was a founding member of Ruckus Ensemble, a theatre company dedicated to producing a play which helps to raise awareness about the traumatic brain injury experience, and was a co-creator with Collective Disruption, an ensemble of artists and researchers who developed an innovative research-informed play dedicated to improving the lives of people living with dementia.