Mark Perry in On the Rooftop with Bill Sears
At age 35, Mark Perry has worked professionally as an actor, a playwright, a director, a teacher, and a producer. His play A Dress for Mona and his one man show On the Rooftop have toured to or been produced in roughly 40 cities, combined. In 2005, he was awarded an NC Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship, and for the last few years has been a playwright in residence for the NCTAE Playworks Program in Wake County schools, as well as a visiting lecturer teaching playwriting at UNC, Chapel Hill. Anyone who knows Mark or his work is aware that he approaches theater from a decidedly spiritual perspective. And in talking with him, one thing becomes clear: When it comes to the potential of playwriting to affect lives in positive ways, especially young lives, the man is a believer.