Mark Ringer
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Mark Ringer (born December 8, 1959) American writer, theater and opera historian, director and actor. Ringer’s books include Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles, a critical analysis of theatrical self-awareness in the seven Sophoclean tragedies, and Opera's First Master, which Alan Rich of the LA Weekly described as “an uncommonly well-told accounting of Monteverdi's operatic legacy.” Ringer’s work as a director has concentrated on classical plays such as The Alchemist and The Puritan for R. Thad Taylor's Globe Playhouse and Hamlet with Jon Mullich in the title role. Ringer is married to director Barbara Bosch, for whom he played Falstaff in his own adaptation of the two parts of William Shakespeare's Henry IV, and is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College.
