Professor Mark Guinn is the Director of the School of Theatre in the College of Liberal
Arts at Louisiana Tech University.
He is a professional director, designer, and fight director. Having worked in theatres
from Tokyo to Rome as a lighting designer, director, and fight director including
over twenty-eight years experience working in outdoor drama.
Mark holds degrees from Centre College of Kentucky and Memphis State University. He
is a Fight Master of Stage Combat with the Society of American Fight Directors and
a Certified Teacher with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat and the Society
of American Fight Directors.
He has served as Coordinator of the National Stage Combat Workshops in Las Vegas,
the Stage Combat Workshop at Louisiana Tech University and has served as a master
teacher at numerous workshops including the First International Stage Combat Workshop,
the 1994 Paddy Crean Workshop, the Summer Sling in New York, the Lone Star Smash,
the Texas Intensive, the Fredricksen Intensive, and the British National Stage Combat
Workshops.
Mark has collaborated on original productions with William Joyce, Mikel Rouse, the
Flaming Idiots, and Havoc Movement Company. Directorial credits include: River Pirates
and the Treasure at Point Coupeé, Begets:Fall of a High School Ronin, Living Dead
in Denmark, She Kills Monsters, The Leafmen and the Brave Good Bugs, a play based
on the book by William Joyce; Shane, the world stage premiere; and Bluejacket the
Epic Outdoor Drama. Scenic design credits include the stage premiere of KAB Man, Shane,
and The Leaf Men and The Brave Good Bugs. Lighting design credits include Havoc Movement
Company’s Just Another Play About Rainbows, The Flaming Idiots at the New Victory
Theatre, A Christmas Carol at New American Theatre, A Knight at the Fights for University
of Nevada Las Vegas, and telescan operator/designer for Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour,
Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and the Gypsy Kings.
