Into the Absurd with Tina Brock

EP 054: Seeking Contradiction and Irony: Designer Mark Williams on the Liveness of Theatre and Dance


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Mark Williams (he/him) is a Projections and Media Graduate Student attending the University of Maryland. An associate for VidCo: Virtual Design Collective, he designed set dressings and camera solutions for Geffen Playhouse’s hit live Zoom production, Someone Else’s House, described as “A frightening digital coup-de-theatre.” by The New York Times.
-The New York Times


As a Props and Puppetry Freelancer from the Philadelphia region, he has worked in theatres such as Delaware Theatre Company, The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Hangar Theatre, The Walnut, Opera Delaware, and Theatre Horizon.

Learn more at

https://www.Markwdesign.com



On Geffen Playhouse’s Someone Else’s House:
Obie Award-winning multimedia artist Jared Mezzocchi has a harrowing story to tell: his family’s frightening, true-life haunting inside a 200-year-old New England house. Flip the switch, light your candles, and prepare yourself (as best you can) for this first-hand story of terror with the latest interactive production from the Geffen Stayhouse.

On Mark:
“My own work begins with the primary goal of theatre, which Charles Mee described as “a practice for life." In its most basic sense this means what we witness in the performance space should develop us as persons, and better prepare us for the contradictions abound in life. Bitter sweetness and emotional ambivalence are representative of the human condition and should be represented by the characters we seek on stage. I seek contradiction, irony, hypocrisy, and to unravel how people make decisions.

I'm interested in developing performance ideas that heighten the reactivity between performer, audience, and design. To reduce the static nature of projection and media brings it more in line with the liveness of theatre and dance.”
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