MARK McKENNA
Mark joined the Touchstone Theatre Ensemble in 1986 and became Artistic Director in 1994. He has worked on over forty Touchstone productions/collaborations including his solo clown piece A Fool's Gospel, co-adapting and acting in St. Exupery's The Little Prince, and conceiving and acting in Touchstone biennially performed Christmas City Follies , a clown vaudeville featuring the entire Touchstone ensemble and professional apprentice ensemble.   Mark is a graduate of the Lecoq International School of Theatre in Paris, majored in theatre at the University of New Hampshire, and trained with Herbert Bergof in New York and Carla Belver in Philadelphia. For Touchstone, he has taught theatre classes at Lehigh University and the University of Pennsylvania, Villanova's MA theatre program and the MFA Theatre Program at Towson State University as well at pre-school - 12th grade classrooms throughout the region. He is active in the growth of the Network of Ensemble Theatres. He is a board member of Alliance for Building Communities (a regional community development corporation), and a member of Bethlehem's Southside Task Force. Mark has served as a theatre panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, a panelist and site evaluator for the NJ State Arts Council, The PEW Charitable Trust's Philadelphia Theatre Initiative and as a site reporter for the Grass Roots Ensemble Theatre Research Project, a collaborative administered by the Community Arts Network and Virginia Tech.