Mark Storen is a writer, performer, director, devisor, musician and teacher. Mark graduated from Murdoch University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Drama Studies 1997 and a Certificate of Musical Theatre from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1995.
Most recently Mark was the creator and director of the physical theatre piece Trapped in Berlin, Germany and Rome, Italy. Mark performed in the 2010 Sydney Fringe Festival with Mark Storen’s: Cut To The Quick, where Mark was accompanied on piano by Tim Cunniffe performing two shows in September at The Seymour Centre: Sound Lounge. This was also performed for one night only on the 12th of November for Deckchair Theatre as part of The Fremantle Festival and in March 2011 at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Later in 2011 this show will perform again for a short season at Deckchair Theatre.
In 2010 Mark Storen and Oda Aunan, a Norwegian actor and singer, performed a one night only special of the new and original show Killing Nellie at The Astor Cinema in Perth. This is a unique performance combining music and theatre in a melting point of language and hysteria exposing the fractured relationship of a fictional folk act ‘Killing Nellie’. In January 2011 they performed in Rome, Italy and at the 100 Degrees festival in Berlin, Germany in February 2011. We take Killing Nellie to Winnipeg Fringe Festival in Canada in July 2011 and New York International Fringe Festival in August 2011.
As an actor Mark has worked with Black Swan Theatre Company, Mainstreet Theatre Company (South Australia Echelon Productions, Barking Gecko Theatre Company, EHJ Productions, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre and the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra’s ECHO Program. Mark recently performed his one-man show A Drunken Cabaret at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival, being one of four shows from Perth, and one of nine internationally to be accepted. He also performed A Drunken Cabaret at the 2008 Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festivals, and for Deckchair Theatre’s Blood Roses and Baklava mini festival.
In A Drunken Cabaret he wrote, co-produced (Steve Hearne) and performed the original music. Mark is currently a participant of the joint initiative between Perth Theatre Company and His Majesties Theatre “In The Chair” program for emerging directors and has written for Spare Parts Puppet Theatre; a re-imagining of Banjo Paterson’s The Man From Snowy River and Swashbuckled. He directed independent company Longwood productions Horsehead at The Blue Room Theatre, and Forget Me Not and Refractions as part of the Deckchair Umbrella Program. Mark was last seen in Deckchair Theatre’s 2009 production of The Lonely Hearts Club. Mark has been involved in numerous Perth bands, teaches both children, teenagers and adults, and regularly facilitates community performance for underprivileged and at risk individuals.