Mark Cassidy's Bio

Mark has a reputation for creating adventurous, thought provoking theatre. As co-artistic director of Threshold Theatre, Mark has devised and directed a number of innovative projects including, As I Lay Dying, In The Language of Love, White Buildings, Beautiful Losers, That Time, Howl, The Hairy Ape, Forms of Devotion, Terror and Kafka and Son. Collaborations with other Toronto companies have included Five Fingers, Tunnel and Whitewash (Platform 9), The Lost Supper (Shadowland Theatre), Borderline and The Dershowitz Protocol (DMT Productions), The Secret of Gabi's Dresser & The Shop on Main Street (Te-Amim), The Demonstration (Theatre Direct), The Pirate Widow Cheng (Puppetmongers) and Crush (Optic Heart). Mark recently directed: The Misfit, written and performed by Anita Majumdar at Theatre Passe Muraille. Upcoming projects include: i don't want to be inside me anymore, based on the writings of German autistic, Birger Sellin, being performed May 22-28 at Artscape Wychwood Barns (Threshold/New Adventures in Sound Art) , The City in which I Love You, part one of Threshold's SPRAWL and, Swan Song of Maria: A Tragic Fairy Tale by Carol Cece Anderson. Last year, Mark was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Direction, and for the Siminovitch Prize for excellence in Theatre Directing. This year, Mark was nominated for the John Hirsch Award in Directing.