{"id":613,"date":"2007-05-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqed2.wsmtechs.net\/spark\/mark-jackson\/"},"modified":"2015-08-03T21:12:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T04:12:38","slug":"mark-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/spark\/mark-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"kqed-jwplayer\"> <\/div>\n<p><script>\njwplayer(\"kqed-jwplayer\").setup({\nfile: \"http:\/\/od1.kqed.org\/anon.kqed\/spark\/markjackso.m4v\",\nimage: \"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/spark\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/06\/509.jpg\",\naspectratio: \"16:9\",\nwidth: \"100%\",\nprimary: \"flash\",\ntracks: [{ file: \"http:\/\/od1.kqed.org\/anon.kqed\/spark\/markjackso.vtt\", label: \"English\", kind: \"captions\", \"default\": false }]\n});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<style>\n.single-post .entry-content > #kqed-jwplayer_wrapper, .single-post .entry-content > #kqed-jwplayer  {\n    margin-left: 8.33333% !important;\n    padding-left: 0.625rem;\n    padding-right: 0.625rem;\n    width: 56% !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<aside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">&#8220;The theater seems to me the most contemporary art in that it&#8217;s literally in the present moment.&#8221;<cite>&#8212; Mark Jackson<\/cite><\/aside>\n<p>From Stanislavsky to &#8220;The Bugs Bunny\/Road Runner Hour,&#8221; movement intersecting with drama is the primary interest of writer, director and actor <b>Mark Jackson<\/b>, one of the Bay Area&#8217;s most exciting and original young playwrights. With &#8220;American $uicide,&#8221; a commission for the Magic Theater and the Z Space Studio New Works Initiative, he satirizes Americans&#8217; fascination with their 15 minutes of fame. <b>Spark<\/b> visits with Jackson during rehearsal for his adaptation of the 1929 Nikolai Erdman play.<\/p>\n<p>A graduate of San Francisco State University&#8217;s theater arts program, Jackson has created a brand of physical theater that integrates the theories of gesture and biomechanics that he studied under Gennadi Bogdanov and at the Saratoga International Theater Institute. Jackson, who has a flair for perceptive commentary on contemporary society, uses a modern sensibility to create dramatic works that present age-old ideas of theater in a fresh light. <\/p>\n<p>Jackson first received widespread critical attention when he founded San Francisco&#8217;s Art Street Theatre in 1995. In his nine-year stint as the company&#8217;s artistic director, he created seven new plays, including &#8220;I Am Hamlet,&#8221; for which he won his first Bay Area Critics Circle Award in 2002. Jackson&#8217;s reinventions of classic plays, such as &#8220;R&amp;J&#8221; and &#8220;Io, Princess of Argos!,&#8221; drew inspiration from sources as varied as Greek tragedy and Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p>For his acclaimed &#8220;Death of Meyerhold,&#8221; which premiered in 2003 at Berkeley&#8217;s Shotgun Players, Jackson turned to the work of legendary and revolutionary theater director Vselovod Meyerhold to craft a powerful and heady mix of dance, commedia, kabuki and circus. In 2004, following the success of &#8220;Meyerhold&#8221; &#8212; which won him a second Bay Area Critics Circle Award &#8212; Jackson accepted a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to study at the Mime Centrum in Berlin, where he continued to explore the relationship between dance and theater.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson returned to the Bay Area scene directing highly regarded productions of Oscar Wilde&#8217;s &#8220;Salome&#8221; for the Aurora Theatre Company, Bertolt Brecht&#8217;s &#8220;Caucasian Chalk Circle&#8221; for A.C.T.&#8217;s MFA program and &#8220;The Forest War&#8221; for the Shotgun Players. 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