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Mark Cabus is a veteran actor, director, writer, and producer for stage and screen. Classically trained in England, New York, and Washington, D.C., he has performed internationally and is best known for his work throughout the Southeast. As founding artistic director of Naked Stages, he was honored by the Tennessean and Nashville Scene with three Best Actor awards—I Am My Own Wife, A Christmas Carol, and Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde—and four Best Director awards—A Doll’s House, A Christmas Carol, Coriolanus, and The Merchant of Venice. His film work includes the Oscar-winning Selma, The Longest Ride, and The Client, with television appearances in True Detective (HBO), The Resident (Fox), TURN: Washington’s Spies (AMC), Tell Me Lies (Hulu), and the Emmy-winning Dopesick. For decades, audiences have celebrated his original solo performance of A Christmas Carol, later adapted into a feature film that premiered at the 2022 Nashville Film Festival and won Most Outstanding Performance at Austin’s We Regret to Inform You Film Festival in 2023. As an educator, Mark is Assistant Teaching Professor of Acting at Ball State University. He has also taught at Emory, Vanderbilt, and Belmont universities, and is co-founder and co-executive producer of Radiance Cinema, an immersive filmmaking initiative at Ball State, in partnership with the Heartland International Film Festival.<scribe-shadow id="crxjs-ext" data-crx="okfkdaglfjjjfefdcppliegebpoegaii" style="position: fixed; width: 0px; height: 0px; top: 0px; left: 0px; z-index: 2147483647; overflow: visible; visibility: visible;"></scribe-shadow>

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