Mark Rigney
has had work produced or developed in twenty-two U.S. states,
Australia, Canada, and Nepal, including at 59e59 (NYC), the Utah
Shakespearean Festival’s Plays in Progress Series (Cedar City, UT),
the Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo, NY), the Cell Theatre (Albuquerque,
NM), the Ark Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), the Forest Roberts Theatre
(Marquette, MI), the Indy Fringe Festival (Indianapolis, IN), and
others. National playwriting contests won include the John Gassner
Playwriting Competition (2017), the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Prize,
the Jury Prize for “The Seven,” and the Panowski Playwriting Award
(twice). Multiple titles are published by Playscripts, Inc.,
including The Shout, Ten Red Kings, and Acts
of God, the latter produced over fifty times around the U.S.
His ten-minute plays are available from One Act Play Depot and also
appear in multiple editions of the Smith & Kraus series, The
Best Ten-Minute Plays (2012, 2013, 2014, and 2018), plus 25
10-Minute Plays for Teens (Applause).
In other work, his short fiction appears in Witness,
Ascent, Unlikely Story, and The Best of the
Bellevue Literary Review, among over fifty other venues.
In non-fiction, Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks,
Hearing Jets and a Classic American Musical (Gallaudet)
remains happily in print.