In our semi-post-COVID world, good news rears its furry little head. First up, "Bears" and "Cavers" have been published by Next Stage Press. You can still check out the beginning of these plays right here on NPX. The Bastrop Opera House produced "Techies" back in January 2023 after that play won the TNT Pops Playwriting Competition. "The Wizard Delivers (and Pinky Stays the Course)" opened at Whiteland High School in November, 2022. Both "Techies" and "The Wizard Delivers" are intended for high school-age actors, so if you're connected to a high school program and you'd like to see something new, rowdy, and relevant on your stage, please be in touch.
Over the summer, "Yartsy on Division" was featured at Capital Repertory's Next Act! Festival in June '22, and I am one of the 50 playwrights...
In our semi-post-COVID world, good news rears its furry little head. First up, "Bears" and "Cavers" have been published by Next Stage Press. You can still check out the beginning of these plays right here on NPX. The Bastrop Opera House produced "Techies" back in January 2023 after that play won the TNT Pops Playwriting Competition. "The Wizard Delivers (and Pinky Stays the Course)" opened at Whiteland High School in November, 2022. Both "Techies" and "The Wizard Delivers" are intended for high school-age actors, so if you're connected to a high school program and you'd like to see something new, rowdy, and relevant on your stage, please be in touch.
Over the summer, "Yartsy on Division" was featured at Capital Repertory's Next Act! Festival in June '22, and I am one of the 50 playwrights selected for CCTA '23 (Climate Change Theatre Action). Hope springs eternal. And now for the "real" bio:
Mark Rigney has had work produced or developed in twenty-three U.S. states, including at 59e59 (NYC), the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s Plays in Progress Series (Cedar City, UT), the Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo, NY), the Cell Theatre (Albuqerque, NM), the Ark Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), the Forest Roberts Theatre (Marquette, MI), the Indy Fringe Festival, and others. International productions have taken place in Australia, Austria, Canada, Hong Kong, Nepal, and New Zealand. He has won several national playwriting contests, including the John Gassner Playwriting Award, the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Prize, the Jury Prize for “The Seven,” and the Panowski Playwriting Award (twice). Multiple titles are published by Playscripts, Inc., including "The Shout" (Fall, 2016), "Ten Red Kings" and "Acts of God," the latter produced over fifty times around the U.S. His ten-minute plays appear in multiple editions of the Smith & Kraus series, "The Best Ten-Minute Plays" (2012, 2013, 2014, and 2018), and in "25 10-Minute Plays for Teens" (Applause). ArtAge recently published "Griddle Cakes," and has named it an Editor's Pick.
In other work, his novellas and novels, The Skates, Sleeping Bear, Check-Out Time and Bonesy used to be available from Samhain Publishing...but Samhain went belly-up, so now he is relying on his agent to save his life and find new homes for these and other manuscripts. His short fiction appears in Witness, Ascent, Unlikely Story, and The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, among over fifty other venues. In non-fiction, Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets and a Classic American Musical (Gallaudet) remains happily in print.
When not writing, he has worked as a zookeeper, a sound recordist, a tech director, and as a retail trainer at Borders Books & Music. His website is www.markrigney.net.