Mark Smith is a Choreographer and Founder & Artistic Director of Deaf Men Dancing. His credits also include My Silent World, a short film for Channel 4's Random Acts. Mark studied at the Royal Ballet School and Bridget Espinosa's London Studio Centre, where he was voted Best Soloist 1989. He was presented East Anglia's Young Deaf Achiever in 1989, which was awarded by Princess Diana at the Café Royal in London. As a performer he has appeared with dance companies throughout the UK and Europe including Firefly, La Ribot and the Aaron Williamson Dance Company. Mark is a recipient of the MGCfutures Bursary which will help him take a new direction as a theatre director.
Awards and Nominations
2023 Olivier Award nomination for Best Choreographer for The Little Big Things, Soho Place
2022 Broadway World UK Award nomination for Best Choreographer for Hedwig & The Angry Inch
2014 BroadwayWorld UK Award nomination for Best Choreographer for Ace of Clubs, Union Theatre
2015 Offie Award nomination for Best Choreographer for The Who's Tommy, Union Theatre
2010 Offie Award nomination for Best Choreographer for Iolanthe, Union Theatre
2010 BroadwayWorld UK Award nomination for Best Choreographer for Iolanthe, Union Theatre
List Of Productions
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA | Director: Blanche McIntyre | Shakespeare's Globe
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE POISON WOOD | Director: P. Burton-Morgan | Watermill Theatre
I WISH | Director: Rachel Bagshaw | Unicorn Theatre/ New Victory Theater/ Off-Broadway
THE LITTLE BIG THINGS | Director: Luke Sheppard | Soho Place
FALLING IN LOVE | Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin, Germany
THE COLOR PURPLE | Director: Tinuke Craig | Birmingham Hippodrome/ UK Tour
HAIR | As Director & Choreographer | The Musical Theatre Academy
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH | Director: Jamie Fletcher | Leeds Playhouse
THE RHYTHMICS | Director: P Burton-Morgan | Southwark Playhouse
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME | Director: Alex Sutton | National Youth Music Theatre
THE RUFF TUFF CREAM PUFF ESTATE AGENCY | Director: Adrian Jackson | Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
TWELFTH NIGHT | Director: Julian Woolford | Guildford School of Acting
THE COLOR PURPLE | Winner of WhatsOnStage Award for Best Regional Production | Director: Tinuke Craig | Leicester Curve/ Birmingham Hippodrome
THE LAST FIVE YEARS | Director: Angharad Lee | Wales Millennium Centre/ UK Tour
IOLANTHE | Sasha Regan | UK Tour
THE MEETING | Director: Natalie Abrahami | Chichester Festival Theatre
TOMMY | Director: Kerry Michael | New Wolsey Theatre / West Yorkshire Playhouse / Nottingham Playhouse / Birmingham Rep / Sheffield Crucible / Theatre Royal Stratford East
ORFEO ED EURIDICE | Director: Maria Jagusz | Longborough Festival
PARALYMPIC OPENING CEREMONY - LONDON 2012 | Co-Directors: Bradley Hemmings MBE & Jenny Sealey MBE
101 DALMATIONS | Director: Dale Rooks | Chichester Festival Theatre
STARTING HERE, STARTING NOW | Director: Ed Burnside | Chichester University
LET US TELL YOU A STORY | Deaf Men Dancing commissioned by Exceptional & Extarodinary | Director: Mark Smith | Edinburgh Surgeons' Halls Museum
CORAZON A CORAZON | Deaf Men Dancing commissioned by Without Walls | Director: Mark Smith
CABARET | Director: Bronagh Lagan | Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
JUST SO | Director: Sarah Redmond | Chichester University
PETER PAN | Director: Charlotte Conquest | Chichester University
HEAR, HEAR! | Deaf Men Dancing | Sadlers Wells
THE SOUNDMEN | Dear Men Dancing | Incloodu Festival
MARRY ME A LITTLE | Director: Ed Burnside | Chichester University
MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND | Director: Tim Welton | Carnival UK/ 3 Pins Productions
ECHOES IN THE NIGHT | Director: Tim Welton | Carnival UK/ 3 Pins Productions
THE WHO'S TOMMY | Director: Michael Strassen | Greenwich Theatre
ACE OF CLUBS | Union Theatre / Wilton's Music Hall
AS YOU LIKE IT | Oxford Shakespeare Company
ALIVE! | Deaf Men Dancing in collaboration with Rachel Gadsden | Director: Mark Smith | Outdoor UK Festivals
TEN / EMBRACE | Deaf Men Dancing | Mayor of London's Liberty Festival Greenwich & Dockland International Festival
THE THREEPENNY OPERA | Directors: Jenny Sealey MBE & Peter Rowe | New Wolsey Theatre / Ipswich / Nottingham Playhouse / Birmingham Rep / Leeds Playhouse
THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE | Director: Ben DeWynter | Union Theatre
THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM SPELLING BEE | Director: Thom Sutherland | Arts Educational School
DIE FLEDERMAUS | Director: Laurence Dale | Den Norske Opera & Ballet, Norway
NOAH | Director: Dale Rooks | Chichester Festival Youth Theatre
A MARVELOUS YEAR FOR PLUMS | Director: Phillip Franks | Chichester Festival Theatre
REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL | Director: Jenny Sealey MBE | UK Tour
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE | Director: Dale Rooks | Chichester Festival Youth Theatre
ALADDIN | Director: Steve Marmion | Lyric Hammersmith
SEQUINS AND SNOWBALLS | Graeae Theatre | Queen Elizabeth Hall
CAROUSEL | Director: Ken Casswell | Royal Academy of Music
BLOOD WEDDING | Director: Jenny Sealey | Graeae Theatre / Dundee Rep
WHEELS ON BROADWAY | Graeae Theatre
IOLANTHE | Director: Sasha Regan | Union Theatre
WEST SIDE STORY | Director: Kirk Jameson | Music Theatre Project
SHOES | Director: Stephen Mear | Sadler's Wells