Mark Dunn
| Mark Dunn | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 12, 1956 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author, playwright |
| Nationality | American |
Mark Dunn (born July 12, 1956, Memphis, Tennessee) is an American author and playwright. He studied film at Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) followed by post-graduate work in screenwriting at the University of Texas at Austin moving to New York in 1987 where he worked in the New York Public Library whilst writing plays in his free time.
Among the thirty plays Dunn has written (as of 2015), Belles and Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain have been produced over one hundred and fifty times. Dunn is playwright-in-residence with the New Jersey Repertory Company and the Community Theatre League in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
In 1998 Dunn sued the writers, distributors and producers of The Truman Show, claiming that the story was based on a play he had written and performed Off-Broadway in 1992, Frank's Life.[1][2]
Personal life
Dunn lives with his wife Mary in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Published Full Length Plays
- Belles (1989)
- Minus Some Buttons (1991)
- Sand Pies and Scissorlegs (1992)
- Five Tellers Dancing in the Rain (1994)
- Judge and Jury (1994)
- Frank's Life (1998)
- Cabin Fever: A Texas Tragicomedy (2000)
- The Deer and the Antelope Play (2001)
- Helen's Most Favorite Day (2005)
- Dix Tableaux (2007)
- A Delightful Quarantine (2007)
- PIGmalion (2010)
- Seven Interviews (2014)
Novels
Dunn has also written seven novels:
- Ella Minnow Pea (2001)
- Welcome to Higby (2002)
- Ibid: A Life (2004)
- The Calamitous Adventures of Rodney And Wayne (2009)
- Under the Harrow (2010)
- American Decameron (2012)
- We Five (2015).
References
- ↑ Writer Accuses The Producers Of 'Truman'
- ↑ Hollywood stole my life, independent.co.uk; accessed March 25, 2015.