Mark Schultz

Mark Schultz’s plays include DEATHBED (Apparition Productions), EVERYTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY (Soho Rep/True Love Productions), for which he won the 2005 Oppenheimer Award and the 2006 Kesselring Prize, POLAR BEAR (Birmingham Rep, U.K.) and GIFT (Rising Phoenix Rep/NY Fringe Festival). EVERYTHING WILL BE DIFFERENT was produced by the Actors Touring Company with Theatre Royal Plymouth under the title A BRIEF HISTORY OF HELEN OF TROY at the Soho Theatre in London after a U.K. tour. His other plays include MAGIC KINGDOM, BRIGHTNESS, and THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE. He has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, MTC (Sloan Commission), Birmingham Rep, StageFARM, and The Exchange. He has participated in readings and workshops at MCC Theater, The Vineyard, Rattlestick, MTC, New York Theater Workshop, The Public, Studio Dante, and Woolly Mammoth. He was selected for a 2006 Royal Court Residency. He is a member of Rising Phoenix Rep, and is coordinator of MCC Theater’s Playwrights’ Coalition. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.