Mark Christopher

Birth Name:

Mark Christopher

Birth Place:

Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States

Profession

Writer, Director, Producer, Soundtrack, Editor

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․"

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