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About Us

Begun in 1994, THE THEATER PROJECT,
Union County College’s Professional Theater Company, is celebrating another season of producing new works and contemporary classics. An award-winning affiliate member of the New Jersey Theater Alliance, The Theater Project is known for its color-blind casting policy and provocative “actor’s view theater” seating" -- the audience is on-stage with the actors, “where the action is.”

The Theater Project offers:

three productions each year script development workshops staged readings of new plays audio-described performances for the blind adult & children's acting & playwriting classes for the community bilingual presentations for children  diversity and tolerance training  a young playwrights' competition

  Founding Artistic Director - Mark Spina*
  Associate Producer - Daaimah Talley
  General Manager - Gary Glor
                    
  Advisory Board (2011)

Mary A Iannelli	Michael Z Murphy
Risa Lower	Elizabeth Neblett
Bohdan Lukaschewsky	Jewel Seehaus-Fisher
Beverly Mariso

  Founding Members

Lisa Alford	Gary Glor
Oscar Castillo	Deborah Pires
Andre DeSandies	Daaimah Talley

Mark Spina is the founding artistic director of The Theater Project where he has directed Pterodactyls,  A Wilde Night in the Rockies, and Omnium Gatherum  (on The Star-Ledger's 10 Best Productions list for 2007).  He is a graduate of Connecticut College and the Eugene O'Neill Center's National Theater Institute.  In addition to showcases and summer stock, Mark's credits include productions with many of this area's professional companies: Fuddy Meers for the Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater, The Memory of Water at What Exit? Theatre, and First Light Home at 12 Miles West.  He enjoys working with new playwrights  to develop original scripts and welcomes submissions to Theater Project's Playwrights Workshop.  He was honored with a "Best Director" citation by The Star Ledger for The Skin of Our Teeth.