Christopher Markle is a graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington and the Yale School of Drama. Immediately after he completed his training he began his long association with The Acting Company, founded by John Houseman, founding and artistic director of Julliard, and Margot Harley and currently celebrating its 25th Anniversary season. In his first season with The Acting Company, Mr. Markle co-directed A Midsummer Night's Dream and began his long term association with the distinguished Romanian director, Livui Ciulei. When Mr. Ciulei was invited to take over The Guthrie Theatre, he invited Mr. Markle to join him. Mr. Markle was Resident Director at the Guthrie from 1980-1985, directing Heartbreak House, Hedda Gabler, 'Night, Mother and three editions of A Christmas Carol. He worked closely with John Houseman on the staging of the New York and London revivals of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock and directed its national tour. Upon leaving the Guthrie, Mr. Markle was one of the co-founders of DearKnows, a New York City-based company known for its innovative work with narrative texts, especially James Joyce's Dubliners (in which Mr. Markle appeared in a variety of roles). DearKnows was also closely associated with Olympia Dukakis' Whole Theatre Company, Colorado College. For DearKnows Mr. Markle also staged a version of Alice in Wonderland on commission from New York's Lincoln Center Institute, for which he worked for a number of years as a teaching artist in schools all over the New York metropolitan area. Recently, he directed Othello for the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. As a teacher Mr. Markle has also taught privately, conducted many master classes around the country, and has taught at a number of institutions including the Studio School of the Moscow Art Theatre, NYU, SMU, Bard College, the British-American Drama Academy, Princeton and Texas Tech universities. Mr. Markle is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Training Committee of ITI/Theater Communications Group, and recently was the American representative to Project Istropolitanja 2000, a biennial Slovakian festival of international schools of theatre. As artistic director of SummerNite, he has produced the world premiere of The Enduring Legend of Marinka Pinka and Tommy Atomic and the U.S. premiere of The Snow Palace as well as expanded the season into a repertory.