Education

Professional Highlights

• Mark Kittlaus is a theatre generalist of history and drama, and a stage movement and mask specialist. As a scholar, he has over a dozen conference papers to his credit and has taught courses at Brown University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Montgomery College in Rockville MD. For ten years, he has been a teacher and director with the Ancient Mask Repertory Theatre in Washington D.C., Maryland and New York City.
• Mark's interest in classical theatre and multicultural performance studies is reflected in his directing credits which include Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, a Noh-influenced Macbeth, the Ion, the Medea, the Bacchae, an Odissi-influenced production of The Persians and Folktales of India at the Smithsonian's Discovery Theatre. He is pursuing his doctoral aspirations with a dissertation entitled Bharatanatyam Pedagogy in the United States. He has visited numerous Bharatanatyam schools in the United States and India and has performed with classical Indian dancers at such venues as The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institute and the Library of Congress.
• Mark lives with his wife Jenny in Alexandria, Virginia.