Mark Smith
Director | 2022 Bursary
The bursary assisted Mark to take a new direction as a theatre director.
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Since receiving the bursary…
Mark Smith is a movement director, choreographer and director. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Deaf Men Dancing and DMD+.
Awards and nominations include Olivier Award 2024 nomination for Best Theatre Choreographer for The Little Big Things; Off-West End Awards and Broadway World nominations for Best Choreographer for Ace of Clubs, Call Me Madam, Iolanthe and Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Live Theatre and British Theatre Awards nominations for The Who’s Tommy and The Last Five Years.
Theatre includes The Hunchback of Notre Dame in Concert (Prince Edward); Anthony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Little Big Things (@sohoplace); The Ruff Tuff Cream Puff Agency (Belgrade Theatre); Iolanthe (Wilton’s Music Hall/UK Tour); The Threepenny Opera (UK Tour); Shoes (Sadler’s Wells); Orfeo Ed Euridice (Longborough Festival); Money Makes the World Go Round, Echoes in the Night (Carnival UK/3 Pins Productions); As You Like It (Oxford Shakespeare Company); Die Feldermaus (Den Norske Opera & Ballet); Blood Wedding (Dundee Rep Ensemble); Duckie (Le Gateau Chocolat – Southbank Centre/Battersea Arts Centre/HOME, Manchester); Reasons to be Cheerful (Graeae Theatre Company – UK Tour); Falling in Love (Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin); The Color Purple (Curve Leicester, Birmingham Hippodrome, UK tour); Sherlock Holmes and The Poison Wood (The Watermill); I Wish (The Unicorn, New Victory Theater, Off-Broadway); The Who’s Tommy (Ramps on the Moon, UK Tour), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Leeds Playhouse, HOME Manchester); The Last Five Years (Wales Millenium Centre, UK Tour); 101 Dalmations, Noah, The Meeting, A Marvelous Year For Plums and The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Chichester Festival Theatre).
TV includes My Silent World (commissioned by Ballet Boyz, a short film for CH4 Random Acts), Channel Four’s The Paralympic Homecoming and London 2012’s Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony.