"Before What Is" from Original Music for Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"
Iowa Summer Repertory Theater; Mark Bruckner - Piano
Iowa Summer Repertory Theater; Mark Bruckner - Piano
Mark Bruckner
Composer / Songwriter / Music Director / Musician
Sound Artist / Educator
Known for his work in intercultural theatre, new play development, and musical theatre adaptations, Mark Bruckner has received commissions from off-Broadway, regional theaters, colleges, and producing organizations across the country. His scores are distinctive for their kinetic blending of original music, live Foley, and spatial, environmental soundscapes.
Representative work includes Body Concert with master puppeteer, Kevin Augustine (Les Sage Fous Theatre, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, CA - 2018),The God Projekt by Kevin Augustine, Edward Einhorn and the Lone Wolf Tribe (LaMama ETC); The Service Road by Erin Courtney (Adhesive Theater Project, Brooklyn, NY); Court-Martial at Fort Devens by Jeffrey Sweet (The New Federal Theater in association with Castillo Theatre, NY); a spoken-word musical, Same Train, developed with playwright, Levy Lee Simon and director Mary Beth Easley (Algonquin Theater Productions, NY) featured at the 2011 National Black Theatre Festival; music direction & arrangement for Crowns by Regina Taylor (Capital Rep, Albany, NY); Krasang Tree, a chamber opera based on the writings of poet U Sam Ouer, developed with director Mary Beth Easley through intergenerational outreach within the Cambodian refugee community in Minnesota (Theatre de la Jeune Lune); God, the Crackhouse and the Devil (LaMama E.T.C., NY) and Caseload (The Workshop Theatre, NY) by Levy Lee Simon, featuring original music for hip-hop jazz sextet; Safe by Tony Glazer and Anthony Ruivivar (Jose Quintero Theatre, NYC); a Mardi-Gras adaptation of Midsummer Night’s Dream, commissioned by the University of Iowa; music and lyrics for Gift of the Magi (Riverside Theatre, Iowa); and music for Sarah Ruhl’s, In the Next Room, or the Vibrator play, Stephen Adly Giurgis’s Jesus Hopped the A Train, and Caryl Churchill’s Fen and Top Girls, at CUNY- Brooklyn College.
A recipient of a Vreeland Award for Music Composition, AUDELCO Award for Best Music & Sound Design, and NY Innovative Theatre Award for Best Performance Art Production, Mr. Bruckner has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, St. Paul Companies, Medtronic, and HBO, to name a few. As an outreach artist working for numerous NY and NJ arts producing organizations, including Arts Connection, BAM, Brooklyn Arts Council, New York City Children's Theater, Roundabout Theatre, and George Street Playhouse, he has taught songwriting and musical theatre performance at senior centers across NYC; and musical theatre devising, choral arts, percussion, songwrting and sound art to K - 12 public school students in the NY tri-state area.
Mr. Bruckner splits time between Brooklyn, NY and Iowa City, IA where he is a Visiting Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Interdisciplinary Artist.