Mark Ingram

ASSOCIATE EDITOR-AT-LARGE
Coordinator, Acting Program ­– Seneca Polytechnic

Contributions to IDEA:
Afghanistan 1 | Armenia 1 | Austria 2 | Belarus 2 | Ontario 5 | Ontario 6 | Peru 4 | Puebla 1 | Romania 9 | Sweden 3 | South Africa 26 | South Africa 27 | Turkey 1 | Venezuela 2

Bio: Mark Ingram received his M.F.A. from York University (theatre performance, plus diploma in voice teaching) and his B.Sc. from Syracuse University (telecommunications production).

Since 1983, Mark has been involved in all aspects of putting on a play, working as a director, actor, fight choreographer, vocal coach, producer, stage manager, lighting and sound designer/technician, stagehand, and carpenter. He is an active and in-demand fight director, actor, director, and voice coach both in Canada and the United States. His teaching benefits from all his experience by taking on a unique blend of these disciplines.

In 1989, he became a company member of Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, Massachusetts, for whom he taught and choreographed. In 1992, he became Associate Director of Artists for a Physical Theatre, a company he formed with his mentor, Tony Simotes. In 1999, Mark became founding Artistic/Managing Director of the Rogue and Peasant Theatre Company, which he ran for 20 years.

Mark is a member of CAEA (Canadian Actors Equity Association) and ACTRA.

Teaching credits include: Seneca Polytechnic, York University, Toronto Film School, Randolph Academy, Humber College’s School of Comedy, Algonquin College, Shakespeare & Co., Canadian National Voice Intensive, USC School of Drama, M.I.T., Equity Showcase, Actors’ Tutorial, Theatre Ontario’s Summer Courses, Queen’s University, and numerous community theatres throughout Ontario.

Acting credits (for stage) include: No Exit, The Idiots Karamazov, Betrayal, The Black Bonspiel of Wully MacCrimmon, The Foursome, Ned Durango Comes To Big Oak, The Affections of May, Rock and Roll, MacBeth, and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Directing credits include: Jupiter In July, To Die For, Endgame, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Bloody Business, Chapter Two, Twelfth Night, I Hate Hamlet, and Barrymore.

Choreography credits include: The Princess Bride, I Hate Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Faust, Hamlet, Shattered Secrets, Brilliant Traces, MakBeth, Scheherazade, Oklahoma, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Mark lives in Toronto with his wife Pamela and son Harris.

Contact: voicefightguy@yahoo.ca