From Stanislavsky to the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour --where movement intersects with drama is the primary interest of writer, director and actor Mark Jackson, one of the Bay Area's most exciting and original young playwrights.
A graduate of San Francisco State University's Theater Arts program, Jackson's brand of physical theater integrates the kind of theories of gesture and biomechanics that he studied under Gennadi Bogdanov and at the Saratoga International Theater Institute with a modern sensibility to create dramatic works that update age-old ideas of theater and present them in a fresh light to new audiences.
Jackson first came to widespread critical attention when he founded San Francisco's Art Street Theater in 1995. For Art Street, he created seven new plays in his nine-year stint as the company's artistic director, including I Am Hamlet, for which he won his first Bay Area Critic's Circle Award in 2002. Jackson's reinventions of classic plays, such as R&J and Io, Princess of Argos! drew inspiration from sources as varied as Greek tragedy and Shakespeare, but also honed a flair for perceptive commentary on contemporary society.
For his acclaimed Death of Meyerhold which premiered in 2003 at Berkeley's Shotgun Players, Jackson turned to the work of legendary and revolutionary theater director Vselovod Meyerhold to craft a powerful, and heady mix of dance, commedia, kabuki, and circus.
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