Mark Witteveen

Mark Witteveen

Mark Witteveen’s plays have been produced and developed in New York, Los Angeles, and points in between, including The Great Plains Theater Conference, Barter Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. Mark is 2016/17 resident playwright with the NNPN member theater The Road Less Traveled Productions (RLTP) in Buffalo, New York, where his full-length play Very Fine Use of a Grenade was produced in 2015. MFA - Ohio University.

Plays

  • Mid Century Modern by Heidi Scott and by Mark Witteveen
    Cast: 
    8–20
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Lesbian, comedy + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, period, political
    Keyword: Lesbian, comedy, New York City, 1950s, nineteen fifties, situational comedy
    It's late-1950s New York City, and two women live together in a chic Midtown apartment – their closet. One roams the city, soaring in her photojournalist career at The New York Times, bruised and exhilarated from rent strikes in Harlem and the front lines of the early civil rights era. The other wants to take over a fine retail store on 5th Avenue when her boss retires. Together they confront a series...
    It's late-1950s New York City, and two women live together in a chic Midtown apartment – their closet. One roams the city, soaring in her photojournalist career at The New York Times, bruised and exhilarated from rent strikes in Harlem and the front lines of the early civil rights era. The other wants to take over a fine retail store on 5th Avenue when her boss retires. Together they confront a series of audacious life-making choices and a society that threatens to tear them apart. Mid Century Modern hums with the heartbeat, struggle and comedy of a lesbian couple’s love in mid-century America.
  • Dance on Hammer Street by Mark Witteveen
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: comedy, movement + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, movement/physical, musical
    Keyword: comedy, movement, dance theatre, dance, music, sound effects
    A female modern dancer/choreographer tries to create new work at home, as her family intrudes.
  • Very Fine Use of a Grenade by Mark Witteveen
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: backwards, Hollywood
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, mystery/thriller, romantic comedy
    Keyword: backwards, Hollywood
    "Buffalo News: ‘Very Fine Use of a Grenade’ delivers on its promises."

    VERY FINE USE OF A GRENADE is a modern romance and adventure story of a young woman who discovers her talents as she tries to escape poverty and a rough existence by attaching herself to a Hollywood film production.

    The story is told is eight scenes in reverse order.
  • Clerk Typist by Mark Witteveen
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: situational comedy, combat veterans + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, movement/physical, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: situational comedy, combat veterans, Chicago, vietnam, Gulf War
    The depths of a recent winter, a snowstorm rages. The suburbs of Chicago.

    An Iraq war veteran, struggling to leave behind his war experiences and re-connect to his family and friends, gets tested when he's sent to the suburbs with his uncle to investigate the theft of some money from the Chicago family business.