Mark Troy has had over 50 major plays produced around the world including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Australia, Scotland, and The Philippines.

 

   Produced, New York; Desperation (Samuel French Short Play of the Year), The Plot (Winner Riant Play Festival Week 1), Jewel Avenue (Writer’s Theater), Aggravation (Theatre-Studio), Produced, Los Angeles; Paging Dr. Chutzpah, (Sidewalk Studio Theatre),Tsuris (Sidewalk Studio Theatre), Belladonna's of the Court (Five Valley Theatre League Awards including Best New Comedy, and published by Brooklyn Publishers), The Secret Nymph of New Hyde Park (Renegade Theater), Peking Duck (Next Stage), One Man’s Devotion (The Rose Theatre). Produced; Century Village Boca, The Proposal, Birdy (All finalists at The Actors Theatre of Louisville Short Play Festival), Balloon (Chicago Dramatist Short Play Winner), Getting You Bupkus, The Misguided Production, and Shiksa, (Malibu International Play Festival), Everyone I know (Los Angles Play Festival Winner), Basic Seven (Miles Memorial Playhouse), Sister Snell (Boston), How To Marry Your Stalker, (Harrogate, England), and Man on the Mountain – a World Premiere in Vancouver, British Columbia, Figment(American Globe, New York), The Bitter Herbs, (SST Productions and published by Tinsel Road Books).

    Troy is the winner of the Claire Donaldson Prize for Playwrighting with his play Afterpiece and the Drury University Playwrighting Award for his play Mr. Wexler. His play The Plot is being published (Smith & Kraus) Best Play for Two Characters, 2007, and his play Sister Snell, Best Play for Three or More Characters, 2008.

    In film, Mark has projects in development at Columbia Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment, and MGM.  He has worked with Rob Reiner, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Robin Williams. Mark wrote  an early draft of the The Guru with Heather Graham. His new feature Family Matters is being produced by Willie Kutner. And he is working on a feature Sweepstakes with producer John Fogel. Mark also does script doctoring for many film and TV shows. He also wrote the cult classic Zipperface. The independent feature he co-wrote, Driving Me Crazy starring Joe Bologna, Renee Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Celeste Holm, Louise Lasser, Dick Cavett and Maxine Bahns, is in production.

    Mark has taught/lectured at Harbor College, Gettysburg College, Queens College, Learning Tree University, Universal Studios, Learning Annex, Celebrity Cruise Lines, Temecula Film Festival, Flatland Writer’s Conference, the Burbank Schools, and many theater groups around the country. He is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America and the Dramatist Guild of America.