ON-LINE, by Mark Steven Jensen

About the Play

Although John hangs dead from the ceiling of his small apartment, his computer program, Annabelle, attempts to maintain the facade that he is still alive.

About the Playwright

Mark Steven Jensen is a Core Alumnus of the Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis and a past member of the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco. His play, ATOMIC SUMMER, received staged readings both at the Asylum Theatre of Las Vegas and the Utah Shakespearean Festival; the play had its professional debut at the Theatre in the Square in Marietta, Georgia. THE BENEVOLENT WOMEN'S CRAFT SOCIETY won the Mountain Playhouse of Pennsylvania's national 2003 Grindstone Award for New Comedy; the play had subsequent productions at the Prairie Wind Players in Minnesota and in Sacramento, California, and will be produced at the Rochester Repertory Theatre Company in November, 2006.

The Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival chose Mark to be their 2003 Playwright-in-Residence, during which time he developed INDEPENDENCY. RUNESTONE, another historical play, was developed as part of the Raw Stages Festival at the Great American History Theatre.

Mark has also developed several literary adaptations for Hardcover Theater, including SHERLOCK HOLMES: MURDER AT THE ABBEY GRANGE, produced at the 2004 Minnesota Fringe Festival; JACK LONDON'S THE SEA WOLF (co-author); and the five-part play series LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT: VICTORIAN TALES OF CRIME AND THE SUPERNATURAL (co-author). Steppingstone Theatre for Youth has commissioned and produced three of Mark's plays: THE FINGER DANCE: A DEAF GIRL'S JOURNEY THROUGH MUSIC (co-author), for deaf and hearing youth; YOUNG LINDY; and an historical musical, to premiere in the fall of 2007.

Several of Mark's short plays for senior adults are published in anthologies by the Dramatic Publishing Company. Another short piece, ZOMBIE CHICK, is part of the anthology LUCKY 13: SHORT PLAYS ABOUT ARIZONA, NEVADA, AND UTAH, published by the University of Nevada Press. Heinemann Drama recently published two of his monologues in their anthology, THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER MONOLOGUES FOR MEN.

Mark lives in Minneapolis with his wife and family.