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After a circuitous educational route through Clemson University, the University
of New Orleans and Tulane University where he earned a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D.
respectively, Mark Charney is a professor of playwriting at Clemson University. He
is national coordinator of the Critics Institute and Dramaturgy Initiative for the
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. He has recently had readings of
his plays 37 Stones or the Man Who Was a Quarry and Double Hernia in New York
and Washington, D.C. Stones was produced professionally this March at Charter
Theatre in Washington. This past summer, Charney took a group of Clemson
students to the Fringe Festival in Scotland where they performed The Decameron
Project, a play he wrote and directed. He recently won the Founders Award for
Theatre Excellence from the South Carolina Theatre Association and is a two-time
recipient of the Gold Medallion from the Kennedy Center.