Mark Chrisler

Mark Chrisler’s THE ART OF PAINTING is “Recommended” by the Chicago Reader

Mark Chrisler, Ohio MFA Alum, opened his play, THE ART OF PAINTING, in Chicago this past weekend with his theater company, Found Objects Theatre. It’s running with another one-act, Chris Bower’s Notes to Molly, and the evening is billed as “Painting Molly.”

The Chicago Reader gave THE ART OF PAINTING it’s “Recommended” stamp of approval. “Playing the instructor, Chrisler builds a sense of unreliability and mystery, and the twists that follow are a refreshing reminder of the vivid worlds a one-man show can create onstage.”

The play runs through August 31st; Friday and Saturday at 8pm, and Sundays at 7pm.

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Chrisler’s “Worse Than Tigers” Reading at Stella Adler Studio Tonight

Alum Mark Chrisler has a reading of his play “Worse Than Tigers” at the Stella Alder Studio tonight in NYC at 7pm. It’s at 31 W. 27th Street, New York, NY.

It’s part of “The First Breath Play Reading Festival” taking place all week at the studio.

(In Ohio, nothing is worse than Kamchatka. It’s better to be in NYC to see this reading. )

Alum Mark Chrisler’s “Worse Than Tigers” Garners Two Accolades.

MFA Alum, Mark Chrisler‘s play WORSE THAN TIGERS has garnered two accolades. It’s been selected for The Stella Adler Studio’s First Breath Festival in New York. (The site for the festival isn’t full operational yet, but the link is to the main site.)

The play was also semi-finalist for The New American Voices Festival put on by the The Landing Theater in Houston!

“Chicago Reader” lauds alum Mark Chrisler’s “Phonies, Frauds, and Fakes”

OU MFA Alum, Mark Chrisler, had a play run at this year’s Rhinofest in Chicago. The Chicago Reader’s, Zac Thompson, highlighted Chrisler’s play “Phones, Frauds, and Fakes.”

In Chrisler’s Phonies, Frauds, and Fakes, the writer-performer reads from a script while seated at a table, Spaulding Gray style. What starts as a witty lecture on history’s biggest lies soon morphs into the fascinating story of Chrisler’s four-year involvement with a girlfriend who turned out to be a pathological liar. As he relates how he fell for one whopper after another, Chrisler is insightful on self-deception and the way great liars exploit our willingness to believe what we want to believe, even when the truth is staring us in the face.

Read the entire article here.

Check out Mark Chrisler’s website for more information about his work.