Mark St. Germain

Playwright

Bio: MARK ST. GERMAIN

Mark has written for film television and the stage. He is a recipient of the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award and the Off-Broadway Alliance.

Mark has written the plays FREUD’S LAST SESSION (Off Broadway Alliance Award), CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM (Outer Critics Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award) FORGIVING TYPHOID MARY, (Time Magazine’s “Year’s Ten Best”) and BECOMING DR. RUTH, the story of Dr. Ruth Westheimer. Other plays include BEST OF ENEMIES, EARS ON A BEATLE, SCOTT AND HEM, DANCING LESSONS, BEST OF ENEMIES, RELATIVITY and OUT OF GAS ON LOVER’S LEAP. Eighteen of his plays are published by Samuel French, Dramatists Play Service and Broadway Play Publishing. 

His play FREUD'S LAST SESSION has been made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode.

With Randy Courts, he has written the musicals THE GIFTS OF THE MAGI,  JOHNNY PYE AND THE FOOLKILLER, Award” (Lamb’s Theater) d JACK’S HOLIDAY (Playwrights Horizons). His’s musical,  STAND BY YOUR MAN, The Tammy Wynette Story was created for Nashville’s Ryman Theater. With John Markus wrote the comedy with music, THE FABULOUS LIPITONES.

 

Mark co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s Warner Brothers film, DUMA. He directed and produced the documentary, MY DOG, An Unconditional Love Story, featuring Richard Gere, and Glenn Close among others. Television credits include THE COSBY SHOW and for Dick Wolf’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. He wrote the award-winning children’s book THREE CUPS, the thriller THE MIRROR MAN and his humorous memoir WALKING EVIL. He  is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writer’s Guild East and an Associate Artist at the Barrington Stage Company where a theater is named for him.

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