MARK LANDON SMITH, Founder, Agent and Casting Director
Film/Television: as actor - Greater, Gordon Family Tree, Hard Earth, Door in the Woods, Parker's Anchor, Crossfire, Satisfy My Soul, Family Vacation, Your Local News, Valley Inn, For Kid's Sake, Simple Pleasures, Frog Hair, Neapolitan, Southern Pride, Jan and & Jann, A Separate Peace, Dupont, Mississippi: F5 (co-producer, writer, co-director. Featured at the New York International Film Festival in Los Angeles), The Man in the Trunk (Producer, Regional Casting Director), Parker's Anchor (Producer, Regional Casting Director),
Door in the Woods (Co-Producer, Regional Casting Director).
Commercials: Sam's Club, Intergy Corporation, Delta Steamboat Company, Subaru, Northwest Airlines, Holiday Inn International, Walmart
Regional Theatre: as actor - Noises Off!, Disfarmer, Amadeus, Romeo & Juliet Damascus, A Christmas Carol, Tigerland, Marley's Christmas Carol (TheatreSquared), Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew (The Classical Edge Theatre), The Santaland Diaries (Ceramic Cow Productions), All In The Timing (Not-A-Penny Productions), The Miser, Grease, Macbeth, Noises Off!, The Cripple of Innishman, Pterodactyls (Kernoodle Theatre), The Bay at Nice, Volponne (Studio 404), Much Ado About Nothing, Blind Date, Broadway Bound, Murder on the Nile, Phantom, Hindenberg! Das Explosive New Musical!, Annie Warbucks, The Space Pirates of Penzance, Anything Goes, South Pacific (The Forum Theatre), Orchids in the Moonlight (Tidal Theatre Company), Squabbles, The War of the Worlds (The Loft), Murder on the Nile (Circuit Playhouse), Love, Sex and the IRS, Bullshot Crummond (Gaslight Dinner Theatre), On the Razzle, Twelfth Night, Nicholas Nickleby, Summer and Smoke, The Taming of the Shrew, You Can't Take It WIth You, The Tempest, Wonderful Town, The Gondoliers, Cowardly Custard (McCoy Repertory Theatre), The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year, The Apollo of Bellac (The Pub Theatre), The Mousetrap (Center Stage Theatre), More Fun Than Bowling, Amateurs, A Christmas Carol, Welcome to the Moon (Wilson Theatre), The Octette Bridge Club (Front Street Theatre), Lucky Stiff, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, 1940's Radio Hour, Assassins, She Loves Me (Boar's Head Theatre), Once Upon A Mattress (Theatre Memphis).
REGIONAL THEATRE: as director - Little Shop of Horrors, Anything Goes, Mark Twain: Out of Time, Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, How To Succeed in Business WIthout Really Trying, The Secret Garden, Damn Yankees, Li'l Abner, Into the Woods, Androcles and the Lion, Ascension Day, Moon Over Buffalo, An Evening of Miller, Frankenstein, All My Sons, Six Feet Under With The Junior League, Crimes of the Heart, Peter Pan, Jack and the Beanstalk, Beauty and tbe Beast, Titanic, Children of the Holocaust, Les Miserables (book version), Les Miserables (musical), A Christmas Carol, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, The Really Hip Adventures of Go-Go Girl, We Love Patsy Cline, Colored Eggs, Voices From The High School, That's All, That's Your Trouble, The Devil and Dan'l. Webster, The Box, Making Progress, Gracland, Eulogy, Downtown, All Eyes On Me, Start With Hope, How To Eat Like A Child, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Hobbit, Nunsense, The Jungle Book, Nunsense 2.
PLAYWRIGHTING: 15 scripts published. Faith County, Faith County 2: An Evening of Culture, Radio TBS, The Really Hip Adventures of Go-Go Girl, Christmas Carol High School, The Pirate Show, A Dicken's Christmas Carol: A Travelling Travesty in Two Tumultuous Acts, Dupont, Mississippi, Hindenberg! Das Explosive New Musical! (Samuel French Play Publishers), Teenagers From Outer Space (Meriwether Publishing), Brawl at the Ball (Drama Source), Plan 9 From Outer Space, Night of the Living Dead, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Stage Plays).
RESIDENCIES: Current - Executive Director, Arts Live Theatre. Co-Founder & Co-Director, Ceramic Cow Productions, LLC. Co-Founder & Co-Director, Bubble & Squeak Productions, LLC. Co -Founder & Co-Director, Actors Casting Agency, LLC. Previous - Artistic Director, Arts Live Theatre. Instructor & Board Member, The NcK Talent Management. Instructor & Co-DIrector, Sager Creek Arts Center Performing Arts Camp. Artistic Director - Youth Repertory Theatre Company. Drama Instructor - Upward Bound Program. Artistic Director & Founder, Actor's Workshop Theatre Company. Adjunct Faculty - University of Tulsa (Acting for Film), Mid-South College (Speech). Do-Diror, Playwrights Workshop - TheatreSquared.
TRAINING: BA, MA, post graduate studies - Theatre. Shakespeare: Gavin Cameron Webb. Musical Theatre: Jack Eric Williams, Amy Herzberg. Acting: Amy Herzberg (Meisner), Julia "Cookie" Ewing. Directing: Glynne Wickham (RADA). Voice: Dianna Clark, Jennifer Brown, Pat Gideon. Speech/Dialects: Mavourneen Dwyer. Character Study: Ellis Rabb.
AWARDS: Best Actor, Kernoodle Theatre. Best Actor, Boar's Head Theatre. Best Actor, AACT-FEST. Best Actor, The Forum Theatre. Best Supporting Actor, Wilson Theatre. Excellence in Technical Theatre, AACT-FEST. Outstanding Technical Contribution, The Forum Theatre. Winner 24 Hour Play Festival 2005 & 2007. Two-time Irene Ryan Acting Scholarhip Finalist 2000 & 2002. SETC Acting Finalist.
NOMINATIONS: Best Supporting Actor, MM/MAC. Best Supporting Actor, Boar's Head Theatre. Best Supporting Actor, Kernoodle Theatre. Best Actor, Kernoodle Theatre. Best Supporting Actor, Kernoodle Theatre.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: Screen Actors Guild. Actors Equity Candidate. The Dramatists Guild. Advisory Board, New Threshold Theatre. Former member, Fayetteville Arts Council. Former Theatre Arts Director, Art Amiss. Former Board Member, Fayetteville Downtown Partners. Former President, FOA Drama Division. Arkansas Arts Council Artist Roster member. Dramatists Guild, Associate Member. SAG Eligible.