Mark Harelik
Mark Harelik is a writer and actor, a native Texan who grew up in the only Jewish family in the small town of Hamilton in central Texas, where his two biographical plays THE IMMIGRANT and THE LEGACY take place. In 1991, THE IMMIGRANT, a telling of his Jewish grandparents' immigration to rural Texas and their first thirty years of life there, was the most widely produced play in the country. In the immediately preceding and following years, it was among the most widely produced. it has been seen at nearly every major theater in the country, among them, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, The Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles, Theater Forty in Los Angeles, A C T in San Francisco, the Denver Center Theater Company, The Alley Theater in Houston, and well over a hundred more theaters in cities and towns large and small. THE LEGACY, a sequel to THE IMMIGRANT, has been produced in Seattle and San Diego, most recently by the Old Globe Theatre there. LOST HIGHWAY, a biographical musical about the life of country singer Hank Williams has been produced by the Mark Taper Forum, the Old Globe Theater, the Denver Center Theater Company, and the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville. Mr Harelik's producing partners have been the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Gordon Davidson, Artistic Director; the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, Jack O'Brien, Artistic Director; and the Denver Center Theater Company, Donovan Marley, Artistic Director.
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