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Sam Marks

Sam Marks’ most recent play, THE DELLING SHORE had a world premiere at the 2013 Humana Festival. Other productions include: THE OLD MASTERS at Steppenwolf’s First Look, THE JOKE at Studio Dante, BRACK’S LAST BACHELOR PARTY at 59E59, and NELSON with Partial Comfort Productions. Sam’s plays have been workshopped and read at, The Atlantic, Manhattan Theater Club, MCC, New York Theater Workshop, Portland Center Stage, The Public, Playwrights Horizons, The Rattlestick Theater, Sundance Theater Institute, The Vineyard, and many others. He is currently developing a project at HBO produced by Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci. 

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A Mets Fan’s Guide To The Theater
Essay

A Mets Fan’s Guide To The Theater

15 April 2014

But maybe the reason I obsess over sports is because of how very different they are from what I have chosen to do. In sports, there’s the illusion of fairness and opportunity. Not so much with theater—Chekhov isn’t fair. The biz doesn’t always offer opportunities. Whereas in every sporting event the outcome isn’t decided, it’s still up in the air, it’s still up to the players. I’d like that to be true of every play. Maybe Othello will change his mind, maybe the cherry orchard won’t be sold. But he always goes through it, the tree always falls, I know the end.