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Bio

Intro:
Mark is a freelance Dance Teacher, Workshop Leader, Movement Director Choreographer & Director.
He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Deaf Men Dancing & DMD+.

Mark was nominated as Best Choreographer in the Off-West End Awards and Broadway World UK Awards for Ace of Clubs, Call Me Madam, Iolanthe and Hedwig & The Angry Inch. He was also nominated for Live Theatre & British Theatre Awards for The Who’s Tommy and The Last Five Years.

Mark is a recipient of The MGCfutures Bursary which will help him take a new direction as a theatre director.

Mark was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer 2024 ( Choreographer- The Little Big Things)


Training:

The Royal Ballet School and London Studio Centre


Theatre:

  • Falling in Love (Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin)

  • The Color Purple (Curve Leicester/Birmingham Hippodrome/UK Tour)

  • D-Sign Dance (Birmingham 2022 Festival/Arts Outburst/Black Country Dance Hub)

  • The Last Five Years (Wales Millennium Centre)

  • The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Agency (Belgrade Theatre)

  • Iolanthe (Wilton’s Music Hall/UK Tour)

  • The Threepenny Opera (UK Tour)

  • Shoes (Sadler’s Wells)

  • The Rhythmics (Southwark Playhouse)

  • Hear! Hear!, Sense of Freedom, Let Us Tell You. A Story, Time, Corazon a Corazon, Ten, Embrace and Alive! (Deaf Men Dancing)

  • Orfeo Ed Euridice (Longborough Festival);

  • Duckie (Le Gateau Chocolat, Southbank Centre/Battersea Arts Centre/HOME Manchester)

  • Money Makes the World Go Round and Echoes in the Night (Carnival UK/3 Pins Productions)

  • As You Like It (Oxford Shakespeare Company)

  • Die Feldermaus (Den Norske Opera & Ballet)

  • Blood Wedding (Dundee Rep Ensemble)

  • 101 Dalmations, Noah, The Meeting, A Marvelous Year For Plums and The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Chichester Festival Theatre)

  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (National Youth Music Theatre)

  • Reasons to be Cheerful (Graeae Theatre Company)

  • The Who’s Tommy (Ramps on the Moon UK Tour)

  • Hedwig & the Angry Inch (Leeds Playhouse/HOME Manchester)

  • The Little Big Things (Sohoplace, London)

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Poison Wood (Watermill Theatre) 

  • Sweet Charity (The Sherman Theatre Cardiff)

  • I Wish (Unicorn Theatre)

  • Antony & Cleopatra ( The Globe Theatre London)

Workshops:

  • National English Ballet Theatre (Choreography Lab 2017)

  • Crush – The Musical (Big Broad Productions);

  • Isolation in the Dark - Seeds Commission (Mercury Theatre)

  • Medusa (MettaTheatre); Integrated ChoreoLab (Pavillion South West/GDance/South East Dance, presented at the Intergrated Dance Summit)

  •  Hut 8 – The Alan Turing Research & Development Project (Mark Smith Productions)

  • D-Clusivity (Black Country Dance Hub & Mark Smith Productions)

  • Synergy (Arts Council, Mark Smith Productions & Blueprint)


Television:

  • My Silent World (commissioned by Ballet Boyz, a short film for CH4 Random Acts)

  • Channel 4’s The Paralympic Homecoming (DMD+) 

  • The Paralympic Opening Ceremony (London 2012 - Channel 4)

  • The Royal Variety Show 2024 ( The Little Big Things)


Performing Art College Productions:

  • Cre8 (Bird College)

  • Carousel (Royal Academy of Music)

  • Marry Me a Little, Peter Pan, Just So & Starting Here, Starting Now (Chichester University)

  • Spelling Bee (Arts Educational College)

  • Cabaret & Legally Blonde (Mountview)

  • No One in the World  (London School of Musical Theatre)

  • Twelfth Night (Guildford School of Acting)

  • The Witches of Eastwick (Institute of the Arts Barcelona)

  • Hair (Musical Theatre Academy)

  • Sweet Charity ( The Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama)

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