Speaker: September 15th, 2015: Mark Sickman: La Jolla Playwright

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Mark Sickman is a longtime resident of La Jolla.  He is a veteran dramatist with over 200 productions, small and large, from coast to coast.  These include two off-Broadway runs.  

 
Mark’s new show ROPE was a multiple award-winner in New York’s Venus Theater Festival and enjoyed a very successful run at the Robert Moss Theatre in New York’s East Village.  ROPE will be presented at the Tenth Avenue Theater in downtown San Diego in 2016.   ROPE is a musical with eleven original songs.  
 
Prior to entering the field of drama, Mark was an executive at large advertising agencies in Chicago. He is an alumnus of both the Leo Burnett Company and Foote, Cone and Belding.  In 1989 he founded Sickman and Reese, an agency and design firm headquartered in La Jolla, California. 
 
Mark graduated from Loyola University of Chicago and earned his masters degree at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.