MARC CASTLE

PLAYWRIGHT * ACTOR * DIRECTOR

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As a Writer:

 

Wrote book, music and lyrics for the new original musical, Love, Incorporated, which is being presented by Broadway producer Stan Raiff at the Roper Center in Norfolk VA on it’s way to an Off-Broadway run.  Before that, it had been chosen to be part of the 2002 ASCAP Workshop, presented in Westchester for three staged readings by Innovative Stages, given a developmental reading by the York Theater in 2005 and another at the Snapple Center in 2006.  He wrote lyrics for a musical based on the TV series, The Prisoner, which premiered at Andy’s Summer Theater in New Hampshire.  With Scott Zesch he wrote Hollywoodland, (done in Concert at the Curtain Call Theater in Stamford, CT) the short musical Reel Life, first presented at the About Face Theater on Theater Row, and two children shows, Young King Arthur (which played recently at the Vital Theater Company) and Amelia Earhart. He is a member of Emerging Artists where six of his short plays were performed. (The first, Invisible, was recently published by United Stages) Other productions of his work have been seen at Ensemble Studio Theater, the Neighborhood Playhouse and Raw Impressions at La Mama, and his song, "Big Beehive Hair," (music, lyrics and vocals) was included in the film, Urbania. 

 

As an Actor:

 

Started his acting career at the age of nine in Thornton Wilder's Plays for Bleecker Street at the Circle in the Square and then toured for a year in the 1st National Company of Camelot.  Other Off-B’way appearances include My Great Dead Sister, directed by Norman Rene at the Production Company, and Peter Parnell's Romance Language for Playwrights Horizons.  Regionally, he’s been “Owen” in The Foreigner, “Eugene” in Crazy for You and “John” in A Lion in Winter.  At Emerging Artists, he performed in Fit for Love as well as his own play, Compulsions in back to back EATfests.  He is a (very) small part of the cast of A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, which just won the Best Ensemble Prize at Sundance, and “soap” audiences will probably not remember him as “Dr. Charlie Hasbrook” in As the World Turns.

 

As a Director:

 

Directing credits include A Boy And His Dog for The Directing Company, Sly Fox at The Playhouse on the Mall in Paramus, New Jersey, and the cult Off-Off Broadway production of Pledge Girls From Delta, House Of Death.  For Emerging Artists, he directed a play by David Bell for the Fast Food,: the 24 hour plays, and directed “Furious” by Eric Appleton for the Fall 2008 EATfest.

 

 

 

Besides being a proud member of Emerging Artists, Marc is also a member of ASCAP, Equity, SAG, The Dramatists Guild, , TOSOS, the American Renaissance Theater Company, and an alumnus of the BMI Musical Theater Workshop.

 

E-mail: marcastle1@gmail.com