Biography and Notes (further contributions welcome) :
MARK ROSENWINKEL is a Core Member of the Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis, a past recipient of their Jerome Fellowship in playwriting, and a participant in their annual Playlabs reading series. His plays have had productions, readings and workshops with numerous theaters around the country, including: THE TEMPTATION OF KILROY - Theater of the Open Eye, NYC; PARLOR GAMES - Le Pensee Theater, Seattle; GERMINAL - University of Alabama New Playwrights' Program; HIE AWAY HOME, Foothill Theatre Company, CA; and ORCHARD - Asolo Theatre, Sarasota, FL. He has also written many plays for young audiences, most notably his adaptation of MOBY DICK which was chosen as the North American representative to the International Assn. for Theatre for Young Audiences (ASSITEJ) Festival in Russia, 1996. A Resident Artist with Stages Theatre in Hopkins, MN, he has had many plays produced there, including DREAMS OF A BIRD WOMAN, JAIRUS AND THE WONDER SHOP, and STONE HEARTS, a play drawn from first-hand experiences of victims of the war in Bosnia. His play, SANCTUS, was named winner of the 2002 Writers' Digest Literary Award, and was recently featured at the 2005 New Play Series at the Jungle Theatre in Minneapolis. In addition to playwriting, Mr. Rosenwinkel has acted professionally in the theatre for nearly three decades, including work locally with the Guthrie, the Great American History Theatre, Park Square, Mixed Blood and Penumbra. He has extensive experience as a teacher of acting, improvisation and playwriting, and holds an MFA in acting from the Asolo Conservatory in Sarasota, FL.
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