| Mark Allen DIRECTOR Chair, Theatre Department  Mark Allen is a teacher, writer, director, organizational consultant, and nonprofit executive. Mark founded the Center for Performing and Fine Arts in 2005. Through the course of his career he has founded several arts organizations and has worked in theatre as an actor, director, and arts administrator for a number of years. Mark has also worked as Executive Director for local and statewide human service organizations in the field of child abuse prevention, as well as Chief Operating Officer for a national nonprofit organization. Mark began his career as Administrative Director of the Folger Shakespeare Classical Theatre in Washington, D.C. He has also worked in corporate advertising in New York City. Mark recently celebrated his silver wedding anniversary with his wife Eve, an artist he met at Dickinson College when he didn’t cast her as the lead in the musical, Mame. The rest is history. Mark is the incredibly proud father of three truly amazing children – Chelsea (currently in graduate school in the Middle East), Griffin, and Evan. E-mail: theatre@palcs.org |