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THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE

SUBJECTS:  Film, Performance & American Studies

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Email: harmark at evergreen.edu
Office:   SEM 2 – A3108
Telephone:   (360) 867-6454
Office hours:  by appointment

EVERGREEN PROGRAMS:
The Western Film Genre and the American Frontier Myth (Spring 2020)
Playing Politics (Fall 2020)
The Art of Adaptation (Spring 2021)
Culture as History (Fall 2021)

EDUCATION:
New York University
Ph.D.     Performance Studies, 1989
Dissertation:  New Vaudeville: Variety Artists in the Contemporary American Theatre
Thesis Director: Dr. Brooks McNamara

University of California, Santa Barbara
M.A.      Dramatic Art   (acting/directing)
B.A.       English   (music minor)

Mark Harrison joined the Evergreen faculty in 2004 after six years as Head of the MFA Professional Directing Program at the University of Washington. In addition to supervising dozens of student directed plays and fllm/video projects at UW, he directed Coriolanus, Measure for Measure, a new adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, and the premiere of Going Through His Things by Steven Dietz. Mark also taught a wide range of courses in acting, directing, Shakespeare and other verse playwrights, as well as writing, acting and directing for the camera. His other teaching assignments have included the University of Texas, Smith College, and the Lincoln Center Institute in New York.  Internationally, Mark has enjoyed extended residencies as a visiting professor in American Studies at Universität Hamburg in Germany in Film Studies at the University of Hyogo in Kobe, Japan.

Professional credits are linked on main menu.

On the home front, Mark has the good fortune to be married to Laura Worthen, an accomplished actress, educator and pediatric speech pathologist. He is the proud father of two children – Nevin Bey and Finley. Mark and his family live in Seattle.