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Mark Landon Smith

MARK LANDON SMITH

  
Nationality:    USA
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MARK LANDON SMITH is the Artistic Director of Arts Live Theatre of Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he has directed productions of Ascension Day, Androcles and the Lion, Holes, An Evening of Miller and Inge, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, High School Musical and the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Additional directing credits include Les Miserables, Guys and Dolls, Little Shop of Horrors, How To Succeed. . ., Damn Yankees!, Into the Woods, the Secret Garden, Frankenstein, Crimes of the Heart, Wonderful Town, Les Miserables, L'il Abner and All My Sons. As actor he has appeared with Gaslight Dinner Theatre, Tidal Theatre Company (NY), Tsunami Radio Theatre (MA), Peacock Productions, Starlight Productions, Front Street Theatre, the Forum, the Loft Theatre, the Michael Fredman Players, the Playroom, Circuit Playhouse (TN), Boar's Head Theatre, Not-A-Penny Productions, and Theatre Squared. Film and television credits include Frog Hair and A Passing Glance and starred on the short-lived television series, Simple Pleasures. Commercials credits include ads for Northwest Orient Airlines, Delta Steamboat Company, Holiday Inn and Subaru, Inc. He is the former Artistic Director of the Youth Repertory Theatre Company, and the former Artistic Director and Founder of the Actor's Workshop Theatre Company and Self-Indulgent theatricals, and served on faculty of the Avery Children's Theatre, and was two term President of the Foundation of Arts and the Southwest Theatre Association College Division. As playwright he has had seven scripts published by Baker's Plays/Samuel French, Inc., including three foreign translation and his play Radio TBS was produced Off-Broadway. He is also co-author of the humor book Dear Elvis, published by Mustang Publishing. Mark holds a BA, MA, and MFA in Theatre, and is a frequent Artist in Residence and has served as adjunct faculty at Tulsa University where he taught Acting For Film. Along with Julie Gabel, Mark is the Co-Artistic Director/Producer of Ceramic Cow Productions which took top honors at the 2005 and 2007 24 Hour Play Event and their first film, F5 was featured at the International Independent Film Festival in Los Angeles. Ceramic Cow is the producer of the popular Dupont, Mississippi stage series and the Pearls Of Wisdom television show. He is also the director and script writer for the Arts Live Theatre television series Fayetteville 72701.

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         Billie Jean Is Not My Lover         Brawl At The Ball         Christmas Carol High School         Dickens Christmas Carol, A         Dupont, Mississippi         Evening Of Culture: Faith County Ii         Faith County         Faith County II: An Evening Of Culture         Hindenburg! - Das Explosive New Musical         Night of the Living Dead         Pirate Show, The         Plan 9 From Outerspace         Radio T B S -Trailor Park Broadcasting Scandals         Really Hip Adventures of Go-Go Girl, The         Secret Garden, The         Teenagers From Outer Space

Billie Jean Is Not My Lover

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Brawl At The Ball

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Cinderella and the evil Step-Mother have a fight at the Ball. They both end up in court. Cinders is defended by Peter Pan - the Step-Mother by the Big Bad Wolf

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Christmas Carol High School

Christmas Carol High School
the classic story of A Christmas Carol is given a modern twist and set at West End High School, where the campus Scrooge is Meredith Priestly, the most beautiful, most popular, meanest, nastiest girl in school! With uninterested and never present globe-trotting parents, the lead in the school production of Romeo and Juliet and Queen Bee of campus (or so she thinks!) is in need of a reminder of what Christmas and frienship are about. Visited by five ghosts -- two of which are Patty and Patrick Prince, two former West End Cheerleaders from the 1950's -- Meredith is taken on a life changing journey.

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Arts Live Theatre, Fayetteville, Arkansas    12 Dec 2008

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Bakers Plays, CA (2011) >>>    978-0874406672

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Genre:
travelling travesty TYA

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Male:  8            Female:  13            Other:  -

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Dickens Christmas Carol, A

Synopsis:
the Styckes-Upon-Thump Repertory Company embark on their fifteenth farewell tour with this 'classic'

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novel by Charles Dickens

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Samuel French, NY,    -

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Genre:
travelling travesty

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Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Dupont, Mississippi

Synopsis:
Verna Dewberry the evil matriarch of Dupont is dead and everyone is pleased.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  9            Other:  -

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Evening Of Culture: Faith County Ii

Synopsis:
the community theatre is producing Romeo and Juliet - badly!

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Samuel French, NY,    -

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Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Faith County

Synopsis:
A colourful collection of good ol' country folk gather 'round for this year's county fair.

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Faith County II: An Evening Of Culture

Synopsis:
the Community theatre is putting on "Romeo and Juliet". "Juliet" is fifty if she is a day. the set is not finished. No one knows their lines - not even the new ones written by Naomi Farkle Carson

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Hindenburg! - Das Explosive New Musical

Synopsis:
the nasty Nazis plan an attack on America. Will their evil plan be foiled? Will former Hollywood star Penelope Prettypuss revive her career. What do the gangsters have in their violin case?

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Music by Billy Madison; music by Keith Salter; lyrics by Keith Salter; book by Mark Landon Smith

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  9            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Night of the Living Dead

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Run! Hide! Lock the doors! After a NASA probe contaminated with mysterious radiation crashes to Earth, the recently deceased begin to rise again, and boy are they hungry! They may be out to eat the living, but these walking dead are rampant with wit and sarcasm-certainly a breed above your garden-variety carnivores. Based on the cult classic film by George A. Romero, this zombie-thon is a delightfully skewed send-up of one of the most beloved science fiction genres of all time. Fast-paced and packed with contagious humor, you'll laugh yourself to death over these horrifically and hysterically misunderstood flesh-eating monsters. Dedicated to the zombie in all of us.

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Adapted for the stage from George A. Romero's film Night of the Living Dead

1st Produced:
Arts Live Theatre, Fayetteville, AR.    27 Oct 2010

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Arts Live Theatre

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Steele Spring Stage Rights, www.stagerights.com   -

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Genre:
Comedy 60 min

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  ensemble

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Pirate Show, The

Pirate Show, The
Swashbuckling pirates, sea battles, buried treasure and a pygmy or two make up the high seas adventure of the Pirate Show! ARG! Set in late 19th century London, Nigel and Virginia Huddersfield, orphaned brother and sister, are living under the cruel Miss Persimmon Crudmudgeon. Fed up with their life, the brother and sister flee. Pursued by Crudmudgeon and her Constable boyfriend, Nigel and Virginia hide in pier side barrels, but they are separated as the all-female crew of the Pretty Penelope and the all-male crew of El Bandido Loco accidently kidnap them. Both crews are in pursuit of the treasure of Captain Mauvebeard and the Caribbean Ruby, buried on Pygmy Island. Upon arrival to Pygmy Island, the pirates encounter the pygmies, who have discovered the treasure and spent it! Devastated, the bands of pirates are thrilled when the pygmies inform them they have one piece of treasure left -the Caribbean Ruby. the pirates decide to join together, thus reuniting Nigel and Virginia. Once back in jolly 'ole England, Nigel and Virginia, along with their new pirate and pygmy friends, buy the orphanage and fire Crudmudgeon. A family oriented comedy, the Pirate Show completely sold out its premiere run! Great fun for all!

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1st Produced:
St Paul's Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, Arkansas    2007

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Arts Live Theatre

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Bakers Plays, CA >>>    978-0874401875

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Genre:
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Plan 9 From Outerspace

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This is it! The stage adaptation of Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space, considered by many to be "the worst movie ever made!" Packing B-Movie thrills into 70 hair-raising minutes, the story goes something like this: Visiting space soldiers use a magic-electro-space-ray-gun to resurrect a recently deceased (and perfectly ghoulish) human couple, putting "Plan 9" into action. The aliens must stop mankind from developing "Solaramite," a substance that could set off a chain reaction of cosmic explosions that would destroy the entire universe. With "Plan 9" activated, the space aliens step up the action. Flying saucers invade! Hollywood reacts! The Pentagon responds! Even Colonel Sanders tries to stop the aliens and, well, this was absolutely the worst movie ever made.

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Adapted for the stage from the film Plan 9 From Outer Space, claimed by many to be "the worst movie ever made"

1st Produced:
Arts Live Theatre, Fayetteville, AR.    25 Oct 2012

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Arts Live Theatre

1st Published:
Steele Spring Stage Rights, www.stagerights.com   -

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Comedy 65 min

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Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  ensemble

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Radio T B S -Trailor Park Broadcasting Scandals

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What a jumping place this trailer park is.

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Really Hip Adventures of Go-Go Girl, The

Synopsis:
Four beauty queens on their way to a pageant get whisked of to the planet Sniggle O' Cheese. Two are treated as royalty and two are sent back to Earth to steal a secret formulae

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Comedy

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Secret Garden, The

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Adapted from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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www.artslivetheatre.com,    -

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Teenagers From Outer Space

Synopsis:
Aliens land in a small town in rural America. They want to take over Earth so that their food source the lobster like Gargon can have somewhere to graze. Derek one of the aliens realises that Earth people are intelligent and goes to warn the townspeople. He meets Earth girl Betty and they fall in love. The aliens send one of their number, Thor, to get Derek back

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Based on the movie "Teenagers From Outer Space" screenplay by Tom Graeff

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Arts Live Theatre, Faeyetteville, AR    -

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Genre:
Youth play

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  extras

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