Mark Alan Gordon
Adjunct Associate Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Studies
M.F.A., Ohio University
Acting, Script Analysis
M.F.A., Ohio University
Acting, Script Analysis
Mr. Gordon has been involved with many productions regionally as an actor or director with such theatres as The Cleveland Play House, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Syracuse Stage, The Kitchen Theatre, the RoundHouse Theatre, and Arlington's Signature Theatre. He has served as director for The Cleveland Play House/Case Western Reserve University MFA program's productions of Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Big Love, and Angels in America. Mr. Gordon served as Associate Artistic Director for Champlain Shakespeare Festival from 1986-1988. He has worked on several original plays, including Romulus Linney's Ambrosio and True Crimes; Chuck Mee's Wintertime and Big Love. Other credits include The Merchant of Venicewith Hal Holbrook at The Shakespeare Theatre Company; Angels in America (Parts I & II); The Dybbuk; and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Television credits include "Law & Order," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," and MTV's "Made: Actress." Mr. Gordon is a founding member of the Signature Theatre Company in New York, where he assisted Michael Kahn in the direction of the Obie Award-winning Sleep Deprivation Chamber by Adrienne Kennedy. He has mentored and directed for the Caymichael Patten Studios, New York University/Playwrights Horizon Theatre School, University of Vermont, and the Hangar Theatre Lab.