Mark Hooker is the founder and Artistic Director of Brazen Theatre. He is an actor, director, playwright, and AIDS activist.
A member of Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (recently merged with SAG), Mark is an active professional in the entertainment industry for over thirty years. In the past he has served as the Artistic Director for Uncommon Theatre, as well as Spiral Theatre.
Mark’s professional television credits include One Life To Live, All My Children, and The Guiding Light. On stage, Mark performed in Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Die Mommie Die, and numerous other plays and musicals. He recently played Mr. Fayette in Clifford Odet’s Waiting For Lefty off-Broadway at the Nuance Theatre in Times Square.
The Miss Longview Texas Drag Pageant, which he wrote and directed, premiered in New York City in December of 2013 to critical acclaim, and is being workshopped and produced in the Twin Cities. Mark’s new musical What Liza Saw is presently in development.
Mark’s directing accomplishments include Doubt, Butterflies Are Free, Naked Boys Singing (closed by the Milwaukee Vice Squad and later reopened!) amongst others in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He is pleased to be back in Minneapolis after three years in New York City, where he studied the Meisner Acting Technique with John DeSotelle.
