Mark Pizzato

Mark Pizzato

Professor
Theatre

Subject:

Theatre

Biography:

Dr. Mark Pizzato (Professor of Theatre) teaches screenwriting and various topics courses in film at UNC Charlotte, along with theatre history, drama, and performance theory. He holds a Ph.D. in English from UW-Milwaukee, an MFA in dramatic writing from the Catholic University of America, and a BA from Notre Dame. Productions of his teleplays have won New York Film Festival and Minnesota Community Television awards.

Dr. Pizzato writes about theatre, film, and ritual performances in relation to neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and psychoanalytic theory.

He has also published several plays for the stage, available through Aran Press: Eany-Meany, Ghosts in the Wallpaper, and The Star’s Masque.

Dr. Pizzato writes reviews of Charlotte theatre and film for Artsalamode.com.