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Laguna Ballet's
The Nutracker
December 18th-21st
McKinney Theatre
$24 general; $22 students/seniors;
$20 children 12 & under

Nina Welch
Public Information Officer
(949) (949) 582-4413
nwelch@saddleback.edu

Mark Mc Quown, Technical Director/Designer

Mark Mc Quown is an award-winning/Producer/Playwright/Screenwriter. His movie PJ starring John Heard, Vincent Pastore, Robert Picardo, Patricia Rea and Hallie Kate Eisenberg is now winning Festival recognition throughout the US. Mr. Mc Quown has also been honored as a Quarter Finalist in the 1997 Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship with Pier 21, as a Semi-Finalist in the 1998 Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship with The China Tiger and a Quarter Finalist in the 2000-2001 Scriptapalooza with Jane, The Legend of Mountain Charley. His newest script, Graduate School was just recently named the fourth place winner in The 2006 Winter Script Network Contest in Los Angeles.

Mr. Mc Quown’s produced plays including PJ, voted Best New Play in Colorado and winner of The Colorado First Annual Playwright’s Festival with a production in Littleton, Colorado in 1984. The String Game was presented at Nomad’s Playhouse in Boulder, Colorado in the middle 1980’s and The Keys To The Kingdom was presented with critical success by Theatre Unlimited in North Hollywood in 1997 as a Dramalogue critics ‘Pick of The Week’ with a respectable review in the Los Angeles Times.

Mark Mc Quown received an MFA in Directing from UCLA in 1974 and has worked as a professional educator in the Theatre Departments of The University of Colorado at Boulder (Head of Acting), California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California (Faculty Facility Manager and Head of Props), Pasadena City College (Technical Director), Scripps College in Claremont, California (Technical Director), Santiago Canyon College in Orange, California (Associate Faculty) and Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California (Associate Faculty and now Technical Director/Designer for the Theatre Arts Department and the Fine Arts Division).

Mr. Mc Quown is also a professional actor and long-time member of Actor’s Equity Association in New York City and The Screen Actor’s Guild in Los Angeles. He is also a long-time member of the New York Dramatist Guild. In addition, Mr. Mc Quown is a professional Stage Director with over 80 finished productions in both the United States and Europe.

For the last 16 years, Mr. Mc Quown has also acted as an Art Director for Television and Motion Pictures. His film and television credits can be seen on the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB). His most recent Directing experience includes American Buffalo by David Mamet in Los Angeles for The Bulldog Theatre Company, Museum by Tina Howe and Jake’s Women by Neil Simon at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California. Mr. Mc Quown is currently writing a new version of the Dickens tale titled A Contemporary Christmas Carol to be presented in the Studio Theatre of Saddleback College, December 5-14, 2008.

Mark Mc Quown
Technical Director/Designer
Department of Theatre Arts
Saddleback College
28000 Marguerite Parkway
Mission Viejo, CA 92692

mmcquown@saddleback.edu
949-582-4766

Questions or comments about the Fine Arts Division may be sent to:
Nina Welch
nwelch@saddleback.edu