Mark Hunter (Chair, Directing/Theatre History and Criticism) has a doctoral degree in theatre history and criticism from the University of Texas at Austin. He received an MFA in directing from the University of Iowa (and he also has a law degree from Syracuse University). Before undertaking his Ph.D., he taught as an adjunct professor at both the University of Iowa and at Cornell College. A director with over 70 professional productions to his credit, he was the founder and for nine years the Artistic Director of Playmakers Theatre in Tampa, Florida. His stage adaptation of Lee Smith's award-winning novel Fair and Tender Ladies (re-titled Ivy Rowe on stage) received an Off Broadway production and was presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He directed the New York premiere of Keith Huff's A Greater Good. He is a longtime Artistic Associate at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City, where his work has included the development and production of new works (the world premiere of Keith Huff's Prosperity is the most recent example ) as well as productions like How I Learned to Drive, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Wit, Proof, and The Goat. For the Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival, he has directed productions of Twelfth Night , As You Like It , Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and The Imaginary Invalid. At Cornell, he has directed Betty's Summer Vacation, Polaroid Stories, Noises Off, Trust, Book of Days, Big Love, and Prosperity.
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