Mark H.

Mark H. is a director, performer, and scholar with a primary focus on physical theaters, and American and African diasporic performance. As a multidisciplinary artist, his portfolio of professional work ranges from the classical to the postmodern, from text-based to body-centric, and has been performed in spaces both traditional and unconventional. He approaches performance as a rite/right, as an art, and as a vital technology for sight, development, liberation and healing.

Mark’s artistic research is concerned with retrieving, preserving and expanding African American cultural heritage, and in developing a unique and personal African American aesthetic by “remixing” ideas and practices borrowed from his various cultural lineages. Thus, he creates experiences where elements of the African, the European and the American mingle in harmonies and tensions that reflect the inherent complexity of African American existence. He is particularly interested in how these interactions play out in immersive, site-specific and participatory performance contexts.

Education

• MFA, Directing, Columbia University
• BFA, Acting, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts