Mark Pracht
Mark Pracht was raised near Colorado Springs, Colorado, and graduated from the University of Nebraska, Kearney. He is also an actor, director, and playwright. Favorite roles include McMurphy in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST with Open Eye Productions, Milt Shanks in THE COPPERHEAD with City Lit Theatre, Lanfield in BLIZZARD ’67 at 16th Street Theatre (2017 Equity Jeff Nomination for Best Ensemble). He...
Mark Pracht was raised near Colorado Springs, Colorado, and graduated from the University of Nebraska, Kearney. He is also an actor, director, and playwright. Favorite roles include McMurphy in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST with Open Eye Productions, Milt Shanks in THE COPPERHEAD with City Lit Theatre, Lanfield in BLIZZARD ’67 at 16th Street Theatre (2017 Equity Jeff Nomination for Best Ensemble). He also portrayed "Mountain" McClintock in REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT with The Artistic Home, for which he received Best Performance in a Principal Role at the 2019 Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards.
His short plays have been produced by Chicago companies like Strangeloop Theatre, and His full-length play NEON was presented by The Shelterbelt Theatre in Omaha, NE. Currently, he is working on "The Four-Color Trilogy," a series of plays about the history of the comic book industry. The first play in this trilogy, THE MARK OF KANE, was presented by City Lit Theatre in the Fall of 2022 to great acclaim.