Mission Statement: Purple Man Theater Company is dedicated to the transformational quality of theater.  Whether by finding and developing new works by contemporary playwrights, producing innovative productions of established works, or by devising organic pieces, Purple Man Theater Company melds words with moving bodies in a frenzied array of humanity at its best and worst and is unafraid of constant reinvention, innovation, and exclamation towards that end.

Production History Highlights: Purple Man's production of The Fairy Plays was nominated as “Best Of” in the 2002 Spotlight On Festival.  Patriot Act won Best Actor in the 2005 NYC 15-Minute Play Festival at the American Globe Theatre and was subsequently published by Playscripts, Inc.  In 2006 Broken Hands, by Moby Pomerance, was the only multi-award winning show in the NY International Fringe Festival – winning for Outstanding Playwriting and Outstanding Actor.  Extended as part of the first-ever FringeNYC Encore Series, it was also recognized as one of the best new plays of 2006 by theater blogger Patrick Lee.  Purple Man's first original devised piece, Days and Nights: page 121, lines 11 and 12,  premiered at the 2007 NY International Fringe Festival and has been accepted to Fiesta! 2007 at the Teatro San Martín, in Caracas, Venezuela.

About the Artistic Director:

Marc Stuart Weitz is a theatermaker and freelance director who founded Purple Man Theater Company in 1998.  His most recent adaptation, Days and Nights: page 122, lines 11 and 12, which explores the intersection between Chekhov's The Seagull and Anne Frank's diary, was presented as part of the 11th Annual NY International Fringe Festival.  His first FringeNYC entry, Broken Hands, opened to critical acclaim, winner of FringeNYC awards for Outstanding Playwriting and Outstanding Actor, as well as being selected as part of the 1st Annual FringeNYC Encore Series.  Other work includes the American Premiere of Dario Fo's The Devil With Boobs for Medecine Show Theater (with Barbara Vann), Loose Ends at Looking Glass Theater, and the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's Base at Mile Square Theater.  Marc has directed with Outrageous Fortune Theater Company, 3 Graces Theater Company, in the Ionesco Festival, in the NY 15-Minute Play Festival, and at Fordham University.  He has worked as an assistant director to Mark Lamos at Lincoln Center and the Old Globe with A.R. Gurney and Arthur Miller, and assisted at Indiana Rep, Syracuse Stage, George Street Playhouse, and at The Actor's Company Theater.  Marc has taught acting, movement, voice and speech at various colleges across the U.S.  He is also a member of the Rude Mechanicals Theater Company and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

Todd Isaac (with Mr. Winkle)
in The Invited Guest
by Staci Swedeen
Gallery Players

Michael Reyna & Stephanie Deliani
in The Invited Guest
by Staci Swedeen
Gallery Players