Teaching

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 and at the University of Hyogo in Kobe, Japan, as a professor of Film Studies.

EVERGREEN PROGRAMS:

The Western Film Genre and the American Frontier Myth  (Fall 2015)
Forbidden Knowledge (Winter and Spring 2015)
Playing Politics (Fall 2016 and Winter 2017)
Immortality (Spring 2017)

PAST EVERGREEN PROGRAMS:

The Art of Adaptation
Why Shakespeare?
Order and Chaos: Making and Breaking Rules in Science and the Arts
Culture As History
The Art and Science of Sport
History According to Film
Sondheim: Musical Theater as Liberal Education
Innovation
Theatre in the Age of Film and Television
Politics, Performance and the Public
The Legacy of Conquest
The Coen Brothers