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Mark Dundas Wood

Mark Dundas Wood is a writer and dramaturg living in New York City.

Originally from Oregon, Mark worked as an arts journalist and teacher before moving to New York City in 1997. His early work as a theater writer was at Willamette Week and The Oregonian. He received MFA degrees in creative writing (University of Oregon, 1989) and in dramaturgy (Columbia University, 2000).

In New York City, he has contributed reviews and articles to various publications both in print and online, including American Theatre, Back Stage, theaterscene.net, and The Clyde Fitch Report. He currently writes about cabaret at bistroawards.com and was an associate producer for the 37th annual Bistro Awards show in 2022.

As a dramaturg and/or literary manager, Mark has worked for such companies as New Professional Theatre and the New York Musical Festival. His articles have appeared in Prologue and Illuminations, publications of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The Tragic Muse, his stage adaptation of the Henry James novel, was performed at New York City’s Metropolitan Playhouse as part of its Gilded Stage Festival in 2014.

He’s currently exploring a long-held interest in lyric writing and has finished a new play, Who’s This Branson Bede?

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The New York–based performance team of Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland (billing themselves simply as “Xhloe and Natasha”) has — over the past four years — made tsunami-like splashes at the famed Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The duo has been feted in Scotland for their compelling two-hander dramas, which bring clown play to original texts and

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