MARK BELL
Director | Actor | Teacher
Welcome to my website. Here you can find information on my current and upcoming shows as well as projects in development and Summer School and Workshop news.
COMING SOON...
A brand new musical at Southwark Playhouse!
24th May-22nd June 2024
I am really excited about this show! When I first read an early draft 2 years ago I had to put it down I was laughing so much. And wondering what the writer was on when they came up with it...
And the songs were just brilliant and still are! Wonderful pastiches of 50's and 60's hits with great twisted lyrics.
Its Grease meets Squid game in a juke-box musical that hates juke-box musicals.
Lets rock...
https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/fun-at-the-beach-romp-bomp-a-lomp/
TM_FATB_MainTrailer_1200x800.mp4CURRENTLY TOURING...
It has been amazing to do an actual sequel! Especially with a great original script from writers Marks & Gran and this wonderful cast.
Go and see it on tour, you will laugh!
https://www.cluedostageplay.com/
RECENT SHOWS...
A short 5 week run for
this show at
Southwark Playhouse.
But a LOAD of violence...!
This show is currently touring the UK until the end of July 2022. Venue details and dates here:
https://www.cluedostageplay.com/
I am very proud of this show, it has been a joy to create with a wonderful cast and creative team and it is knocking them dead! Even if I do say so myself. I want to express my heartfelt thanks to all involved for making this such a great experience and such a great show!
CLUEDO: TOURING THE UK JANUARY - JULY 2022
PRESS FOR CLUEDO:
Southwark News
“…a surefire night of comedy entertainment.”
“…irresistible silliness…”
“A joyful night of comical escapism with guaranteed entertainment.”
Bums on seats
“…an evening of silliness and laughter.”
Newshopper / This is Local London
“…full of anticipation and humour.”
“The finale was phenomenal, with surprises so great I heard members of the audience gasping out loud.”
“Cluedo was a hysterically intensive show full of creativity and suspense and had me guessing until the last five minutes.”
Eastern Daily Press
“Brilliant nostalgic fun”
The Cambridge Critique
“a masterclass in physical comedy”
“…a surefire night of comedy entertainment.” Southwark News
“phenomenal” This is Local London
“Brilliant nostalgic fun” Eastern Daily Press
HORSE COUNTRY
WILTONS MUSIC HALL 2021
ASSEMBLE ROOMS EDINBURGH FESTIVAL 2022
ADELAIDE FESTIVAL 2023
https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/horse-country-a-surreal-comedy-af2023
SIRENS, MEN AND CRABS
This wonderfully silly show, by the wonderfully silly TEATRO POMODORO opened in Liverpool at the UNITY THEATRE in 2021. It will tour from Autumn 2022 and through 2023.
OTHER CURRENT SHOWS...
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Still running at:
the DUCHESS THEATRE West End, London
NEW WORLD STAGES NYC
and in Hungary, Italy, Mexico and more countries worldwide.
https://mischiefcomedy.com/international
WINNER - Best Direction of a Play
Mark Bell - The Play That Goes Wrong
Something as silly as this could only work if it was put together with serious craft, and it was, like a pristinely assembled jigsaw puzzle that, when put together, makes you scream with laughter. Kudos to director Mark Bell, scenic designer Nigel Hook—and Duran Duran.
Michael Musto - Out.com
“But the exceptional direction of the piece, by Mark Bell, embraces risk and danger to an extraordinary extent. That means "The Play That Goes Wrong" never seems safe or comfortable in its own skin — the tricked-out design by Nigel Hook is exceptionally clever and suffused with booby traps of considerable aesthetic imagination, but it remains persistently tawdry, as it should be, of course. And thus at no point is "The Play That Goes Wrong" one of those smug, accomplished London imports, sets collapsing on cue and well-spoken farceurs risking nothing.
Chris Jones - Chicago Tribune
There’s no paucity of wit to the proceedings, and director Mark Bell stages the action with clockwork precision.
Frank Scheck - The Hollywood Reporter
But wait. Although Mark Bell is the real director, he should get a special Tony for best choreography in a nonmusical. The physical comedy demands stopwatch precision to make the cumulative antics, not just pratfalls and spit-takes work, without hurting the real actors.
Linda Winer - Newsday
