Mark Sullivan:
CLASS OF 1969
Ingraham High SchoolClass of 1969
Seattle, WA
Blanchet High SchoolClass of 1969
Seattle, WA
Christ the King SchoolClass of 1965
Seattle, WA
Northgate Elementary SchoolClass of 1963
Seattle, WA
Daniel Bagley Elementary SchoolClass of 1963
Seattle, WA
Mark's Story
Life
After living in Seattle until I was almost 30, I got the urge to go back to school. I found myself living in New Haven, CT and attending Yale School of Drama in the Technical Design and Production program. After finishing there in 83 I found my self living in a number of different states on the east coast. I met my wife of 27 years while living in New York.
We moved to Boston MA in 2000 from Ann Arbor, MI where I worked for the University of Michigan School of Music for 15 years as production manager for the theatrical operations. I managed a live professional theatre in downtown Boston for several years, but left there to spend more time with my family. I now am managing the theatre operations for a local university.
My wife spent several years as an Environmental Justice attorney in Detroit and Boston, She now considers herself a recovering attorney and has spent the last 10 years as the Program Director for national funding program for ensemble theatres doing devised work. her program has tremendous impact nation wide .
To be honest, high school for the most part was a chore to be endured. If it weren't for a few good friends, (actually too numerous to mention), and discovering drama class, I think I might have given up on it all. I didn't discover how much fun learning was until I got out of HS and got into college. Now that was an awakening..
Workplace
I have managed to work in theatre most of my professional life. I have been a designer, technical director & production manager. Moving to Boston, I managed the theatre in which Blue Man Group performs. After 4 years plus of that, I left to 'spend more time with the family'. I am now working at a university nearby managing the principal performing space at the university. We do in between 85 and 100 event per year keeping the the space occupied more that 200 days a year. after 13 years I am planning on retiring in the summer of 2020. I am not sure what I will do after that, I am not sure that I can stay away from theatre...Expand for more
, but something less stressful would be nice.
As of now (3/20) our son is 3 years out of college with a degree in theatre. . (I know, some of you are grandparents already, we got a late start.) Not falling for from the tree, he studied theatre in hopes of making a career of acting. He returned to Boston after college and has plied has acting skills in in his home town with a marked degree of success. All of his employment has been in the theatre field or related. He can be seen regularly as Thomas Melville, a participant at the Boston Tea Party at the Tea Party Museum. He has had several acting roles at theatres in town and have received positive reviews for all of his work. Moving forward, He was accepted into the Masters of Fine Arts in Acting program at Brown University.
Update March 2025. Lots has change in the last couple pf year. in January of 2023 I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. It was quite a shock but fortunately living in Boston I was able to take advantage of the excellent cancer treatment centers here. It hasn't been an easy slog, but after many days in the hospital over the last two year and two bone marrow transplants I am mostly out of the woods. and the cancer is in remission. I am now able to live a reasonably normal life and able to travel as well. I am happy and lucky to be alive and thankful for all of the hard work by the doctors and nurses who tended to me on the way.
As for the rest of our small clan so far away from where I grew. they are doing fine. Son Chingwe-Padraig finished grad school and has been pursuing his acting career both in the boston area and nationally as opportunities present themselves selves, has has done projects in as far ranging places as New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and South Dakota as well as greater new England. Quita is contemplating retirement after working for New England Foundation for the Arts as the Director of the National Theatre Program.
We will see what the next step in our lives are.
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