Be Our Guest with Mark Brown (This Is Tom Jones!)

<p> <strong>Mark Brown</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>Hi, I’m Mark Brown and I’m a playwright. For more than 20 years I was an actor but I made a mid-career switch to writing. My mom always said I should have something to fall back on. For the longest time I thought she meant a mattress.</p> <p>The acting worked out okay. I did a lot of theatre, TV and film. I was blessed to work with some really great actors, from George Clooney to Philip Nolen. From Tom Hanks to the Rally Monkey. But I grew weary of the acting business as it became more and more last minute. I would get a lot of calls from my agent saying things like, “You need to be in Santa Monica in 45 minutes.” It wasn’t my agent’s fault. It was just the business.</p> <p>So I heeded my mom’s advice and I fell back on the much more stable career of playwriting. What was I possibly thinking? But so far things have worked out. Excuse me while I go knock on the largest piece of wood I can find.</p> <p>I’ve been fortunate to have my plays produced all over the world: Off-Broadway, across the U.S. (including the 50th state, Hawaii), Canada, England, India, Turkey, South Africa, Bangladesh and China. I consider myself very lucky.</p> <p><a href="http://markbrownwriter.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">http://markbrownwriter.com/</a> <strong>This Is Tom Jones!</strong> Henry Fielding’s heart-throbbing masterpiece meets the frenzied, mop-top sounds of the 1960s known as the British Invasion. Aristocrats, wenches and scalawags abound in this bawdy and rollicking romp through the back roads and bedchambers of England.</p> <p>If you liked <em>Austin Powers</em>, <em>The Full Monty</em>, or <em>Avenue Q</em>, you’ll like <em>THIS IS TOM JONES!</em></p> <p> </p> <p> </p>