Mark Russell

Mark Russell

Mark Russell is the producer and director of The Public Theater’s Under The Radar Festival, which he started in 2005 at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY, in January of 2005, focusing primarily on theater companies based in the United States. In 2006, he moved UTR to The Public Theater in Manhattan, making it branch out further into the international theater community. January 2012 marked it’s 8th Edition, which highlighted contemporary and independent work from around the world for two weeks. Russell included for the first time productions from Japan in the festival line-up: Toshiki Okada’s “Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner and Farewell Speech” by chelfitch theater company and Hideki Noda’s “THE BEE,” both presented at the Japan Society. Prior to founding UTR festival, Russell was the Executive/Artistic Director of Performance Space 122, aka PS122, in East Village in New York City from 1983-2004. Russell served as the guest Artistic Director of PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival in Portland, OR, from 2006 to 2008.