Mark Monday

Founding Artistic Director

Mark Monday, our wonderful colleague and friend, passed away in November 2019. His spirit lives on in GLMCC and we honor him by continuing his legacy of inspired teaching. Mark’s second book, Application of the Michael Chekhov Technique to Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Soliloquies and Monologues was published in early December 2019 and is available through Routledge and Amazon. Mark and friends Lionel Walsh, Lavinia Hart and Catherine Albers started GLMCC in 2010 as a way to share the work of Michael Chekhov. Mark was our leader from the beginning and while it will be hard to go forward, that is what we will do. Mark would have it no other way. His extensive bio is included here.

Mark taught at Kent State University, Ohio University, Fairmont State University, University of Georgia, and Santa Clara University in California. While in Bay Area, Mark acted in Smoke on the Mountain at Tabard Theatre, Waiting for Lefty at Fess Parker Theatre, with Danny Glover in The California Innocent's Project, and A Few Good Men as Col. Jessup in Mons, Belgium. Northeast Ohio acting credits included: Music Man, Funny Thing, and Anything Goes at Porthouse Theatre, Inherit the Wind at the Cleveland Playhouse, and Annie at the Beck Center.

Mark’s extensive directing credits included favorites King Lear, Once on This Island, The Learned Ladies, As You Like It, The Who’s Tommy, Moby Dick-Rehearsed, and sadly, the final professional production of Seven Guitars prior to the death of August Wilson. In 2012, Monday directed the world premiere play, Mona Lisa by Ron Burch. Directing credits also include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Crucible, Hamlet, and The Grapes of Wrath.

Mark had a long list of fight directing assignments including King Richard’s Renaissance Faire, Chicago Renaissance Faire, Richard III, Three Musketeers, Tom Jones, and A View From the Bridge. As a composer, Mark wrote music the for North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, North Carolina Medieval Faire at Castle McCullough, and for university productions across the U.S.

 Monday's first book, Directing With the Michael Chekhov Technique, was published by Bloomsbury and available at all booksellers.