Mark Ramont
VCU Theatre is excited to have Mark Ramont as a guest director this spring, He will be directing Cabaret from Feb 5th – April 13th.
Mark Ramont is in his fourth season as the Associate Producer/Artistic for
Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. Other professional positions have
included associate artistic director for New York’s Circle Repertory
Company, Artistic Director for Capitol City Playhouse (Austin, Texas) and
Artistic Director for the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York. As a
director, he has directed the world premieres of Walking the Dead ,
Dalton’s Back , The Colorado Catechism (all at Circle Rep) and Mad River
Rising (Vermont Stage Company, winner of Moss Hart Award for Outstanding
Production, New England), among others. He has won awards for his
productions of Jeffrey , Amadeus, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning,
Juliet) , Lips Together, Teeth Apart , Mass Appeal and Agnes of God . He
has directed for numerous theatre companies, including the Alley Theatre
and Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, the Round House Theatre in
Bethesda, Dorset Theatre Festival (18 seasons), and Cortland Repertory
Theatre. As a theatre educator, he was the Director of Theatre at Rice
University and was an adjunct at Sam Houston State University. Some of his
students have gone on to receive graduate degrees from Yale School of
Drama, New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, California
Institute of the Arts, and the University of California at San Diego. He
has guest directed at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, Sam Houston
State University, and North Carolina School of the Arts. He is the
recipient of the Prince Grace Foundation’s Statuette Award for Sustained
Excellence and holds a BA in Theatre (Directing) from California State
University, Fullerton, an MFA in Directing from the University of Texas at
Austin, and completed an internship with the Asolo State Theatre in
Sarasota, Florida. He is a member of SSDC, a site reporter for the
National Endowment for the Arts, and a judge for the Helen Hayes Awards in
Washington, DC.
