Dr. Mark Burnette
Teacher/Director/Designer
DIRECTORIAL WORK
The Colored Museum
The Colored Museum
Albany State University
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George C. Wolfe's biting satire The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America.
Father of
the Bride
Father of the Bride
Albany State University
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In Father of the Bride, Stanley Banks struggles with his daughter Kay growing up and get married, and the rising cost of her ever expanding wedding guest list. A classic 1950's comedy that still speaks to audiences today.
Side Man
Side Man
Albany State University
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Side Man is told through the eyes of Clifford Glimmer, the only child of a journey-man jazz musician Gene, and alcoholic mother Terry. The play jumps back-and-forth in time while it chronicles the decline of the Glimmer family along with the decline of jazz as a popular form of music.
The Glass
Menagerie
The Glass Menagerie
Lee University
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The Glass Menagerie is a memory play narrated by Tom Wingfield. Tom yearns to leave his family, like his father before him, but works instead at a shoe warehouse to support his beloved and painfully shy sister Laura, and his overbearing faded Southern belle mother Amanda.
Two Rooms
Two Rooms
Lee University
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Two Rooms tells the heartwrenching story of Lanie Wells, a young woman whose husband Michael was taken hostage while teaching in the Middle East. As she longs for his return, Lanie finds herself caught in a struggle between an ambitious newspaper reporter who wants to tell her story, and a representative of the State Department who is trying to keep her quiet and minimize the political fallout from the situation.
Enchanted
April
Enchanted April
Lee University
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Enchanted April is a sweet romantic comedy about two British housewives who long for something new in their life. They decide to rent a villa in Italy for the month of April. Soon realizing they cannot afford to split the cost they place an ad in the newspaper for additional companions and end up with two wealthy, but vastly different women to join them on their adventure of self-discovery.