Columbia University, New York, NY: MFA, School of the Arts.
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH: BA, Government and Environmental Studies.
Completed teaching English 205, “Introduction to Imaginative Writing,” at University of Evansville’s UK campus in Harlaxton, Great Britain. Spring semester 2007.
MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL: Taught English 352 (Creative Writing)
spring semester, 2001. Also: Technical Director, MacMurray College Theater.
Shows included: West Side Story, Ghosts, Antigone, and Waiting for Godot.
Trainer, Borders Books and Music: Responsible for training all incoming and
veteran employees; assisted with seventeen store openings in seven states; became a mentor trainer (training other company trainers) in 1996.
Mark Rigney
WRITING PROJECTS (selected)
EDUCATION (and selected employment)
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1989-1992
1985-1989
2007
1999-2001
1994-1997
Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets and a Classic American Musical
(Gallaudet University Press, 2003). Non-fiction work chronicles a collaborative deaf and hearing production of West Side Story.
Gaining Ground, full production at The Ark Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 2006.
Gaining Ground also received a staged reading at the 2004 Plays in Progress series, Utah Shakespearean Festival (Cedar City, Utah).
Acts of God, workshop production presented in conjunction with the Evansville Civic Theatre (Evansville, IN), Nov. 2006. Play features high school-age actors coping with the devastation of a fictional F-3 tornado. Acts is published by Playscripts, Inc., 2008. Multiple productions in U.S. & Canada, ‘08-’09.
Burning Mona Lisa in the Reptile House, winner of the 2004 Mildred and Albert
Panowski Playwriting Award. Play received summer workshop followed by full
production at Northern Michigan University (Marquette, MI), Nov. 2004.
The Experts, staged reading at the 2004 New Voices of the Wild West Festival
(Foothill Theatre Company, Nevada City, CA).
Lines in the Sand, winner of the 2002 Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition.
Lines received a full production at the Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo, NY) in Nov. 2003. The play first received a staged reading at the 2002 New Voices of the Wild West Festival (Foothill Theatre, Nevada City, CA) under the title of Asylum. Also received a concert reading at Studio 400 (Pensacola, FL), Aug. 2004.
Digging in the Margins, staged reading at the 2003 Plays in Progress series, Utah
Shakespearean Festival (Cedar City, Utah), as a staged reading. Digging first received a staged reading at the ‘01 New Voices of the Wild West Festival (Foothill Theatre, Nevada City, CA).
Nightjars, large-cast play selected for the Y.E.S. Festival. Full premiere production produced in April 2009 (Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY). Also received rehearsed concert reading in fall 2005 with the University of Evansville Theatre Department (Evansville, IN).
Gift of the Magi / A Holiday Music Tale, an adaptation in collaboration with Tales & Scales, national touring company of conservatory-level musicians performing theater for young audiences (Evansville, IN), 2005. Multiple performances annually.
“Advice for 56,” part of The Short Attention Span Festival, Studio 400 (Pensacola, FL), Feb. 2007.
Thirty short stories published, including first prize in The Rambunctious Review (’01) and Honorable Mention in Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2008. Other stories appear in Black Gate (‘09), Escape Clause (‘09), Strange, Weird & Wonderful (‘09), Shelter of Daylight (Sam’s Dot Press anthology, April ‘09), The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Traps (Dark Hart Press), World of Wonders, Skive, Forgotten Worlds, Shadow Regions (Cavern Press), Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, Talebones, Aoife’s Kiss, Andromeda Spaceways, All Hallows (’05 and ’07), Green Hills Literary Lantern, THEMA, Red Rock Review, Big Muddy, Conversely, The Bellevue Literary Review (Pushcart nomination in ’04, second story in ‘06), The Café Irreal, Rain Crow, Sou’wester, The Kit-Cat Review, and Bibliophilos.
Book & journal reviews published in Tangent (Summer ‘09) and Black Gate (Spring ’08 and Fall ’07, print and on-line edition).
Frequent contributor to Evansville Parent (’06-’07), with additional work to appear in Dec. ’07 issue of Columbus Parent.
Recipient of a 2006-2007 Ludwig Vogelstein grant for an ongoing project, Roots In a Grey Garden. The grant supported travel and housing costs to interview activists and political radicals throughout Europe in the spring and summer of 2007. The resultant script had its first concert reading in Sept. 2007.
Recipient of an Indiana Arts Council grant (2003-2004) for a novel, Reckless
Amateurs. Also: The Investor, a novel, finished second in the First Coast Novel
Contest (2000).
“In Which Gillian Amber Copes With Miracles,” selected to be part of the Eye in the Sky Project curated by the Audacity Theater Lab (Austin, TX), installments throughout 2009, w/”Gillian” scheduled for summer.
