Mark Christopher Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Berlin International Film Festival Award for Best Short Film for "Alkali, Iowa" in 1996
• Won a San Francisco International Film Festival Award for Best Short Film for "The Dead Boys' Club" in 1992
• Won a Chicago Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival Award for Best Narrative Short for "Alkali, Iowa" in 1995
• Won two USA Film Festival Awards for "Alkali, Iowa" in 1995, one for Best Drama and one for First Place Fiction
• Graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in Communications in 1983 and earned his Master's in Film from Columbia University in 1995
• Made his directing debut as both writer and director of the short film "The Dead Boys' Club" in 1992
• Served as an artist-in-residence at the Ucross Foundation and often teaches classes at Columbia University and Carnegie Mellon University
• Best known as the writer and director of "54" and "Pizza" and as the creator and executive producer of "Real Life: The Musical․"