A Collection of Plays By Mark Frank Volume III

About the Book

A Collection of Plays by Mark Frank: Volume III introduces ten new plays by playwright Mark Frank. In the hilarious comedy, I Swear By The Eyes of Oedipus! we get find Oedipus great, great, great, great...(well you get the point) grandson try to come to terms with the prophecy that he will sleep with his mother and kill his father. In Hurricane Iphigenia, Category 5, Tragedy in Darfur we are taken to the Sudan region in Africa by the Greek princess. Can she save the two million displaced Christian Africans hunted by the Islamic Janjaweed? In the drama, The Rainy Trails we go on a spiritual Native American journey with Rainy trying to tackle racism. In the Greek play Iphigenia Rising, Electra, Iphigenia and Orestes are faced with the blame game with the deaths of their parents from alcohol which will change their lives forever. In The Rock of Troy, the Iliad is revisited with all twenty-four books translated with no dialogue, only action and classical rock music from the seventies and eighties. Five new oneacts are also introduced in the book with the dramatic plays, The Mahmudiyah Incident, The Land of Never, and A Christmas Musical, and the comedies Trouble’s Revenge, a sequel to A Purrfect Life, and Humpty Dumpty: the musical?

About the Author

Mark Frank is enjoying starting his sixteenth year as Theatre/Technical Director at Coffeyville Community College where he has one of the largest community college theatre programs in the state. He has directed and acted in over seventy professional and community productions. He shares the Artistic Direction of the Rubber Chicken Factory Improvisational Comedy Troupe with his wife Bethanie. He has conducted playwriting, acting, and improvisational comedy workshops at many theatre conventions in the Midwest. Mark has also directed at The 24 Hour Plays, and William Inge Theatre Festival. Mark was named CCC Professor of the Year in 2000 and this year in 2006. He was also honored as the Coffeyville Chamber of Commerce Post-Secondary Educator in the year 2000. In 2001, Mark won the NACADA/ACT (National Academic Advising Association) Outstanding Advisor Award. In 2002 Mark became a published playwright having published A Collection of Plays by Mark Frank. and A Collection of Plays Volume II in 2006. His plays have been produced in Kansas, New York, Colorado, Missouri and Oklahoma. He has won numerous Merit Awards for playwriting from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Regions V and VI. Including awards for Greek Soup and The Rainy Trails. He recently published his third book, A Collection of Plays by Mark Frank, Volume III, which came out in 2009. He is also writing a children s novel, Princess Atlantis and the Journey to the Battle Lands. The book will come out in 2010. He has a Bachelors in theatre and dance from Viterbo University and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in acting from Western Illinois University. He lives in Coffeyville, Kansas with his wife Bethanie and his daughter, Atlantis.