Mark Cuddy is Artistic Director Emeritus of Geva Theatre, having completed his 27th season as Artistic Director in July of 2022. He led Geva through a renaissance of artistic and institutional growth with a diverse repertory, topflight artists, wide-reaching educational programs and a commitment to new play development. Mr. Cuddy is a founding member of the Board of Directors for the Rochester Fringe Festival that just concluded its fourth year, and served on the Board of Directors of the only national service organization for non-profit theatres, Theatre Communications Group . As a director, Mr. Cuddy is known for his productions of musicals, contemporary comedies and premieres. Recent Geva productions include Once, The Humans, Ring of Fire, Clybourne Park, Good People, To Kill a Mockingbird, You Can't Take it With You, Superior Donuts, A Midsummer Night’s Dream co-directed with Skip Greer, and Company. This season, he will once again direct his own adaptation of A Christmas Carol with music and lyrics by Gregg Coffin. Among his many other Geva credits are The Music Man, Sweeney Todd, Fences, Five Course Love, A Christmas Story, and Pride and Prejudice (co-adaptor), and the world premieres of Convenience (musical) by Gregg Coffin, Theophilus North by Matthew Burnett from Thornton Wilder (also at Arena Stage), Splitting Infinity by Jamie Pachino, Famous Orpheus by Oyamo (choreography by Garth Fagan), House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn (East Coast premiere), and That Was Then (American premiere). Upon leaving Geva, he agreed to be the interim leader of Cleveland Play House, a position in which he served for eighteen months. Mr. Cuddy has also served as Artistic Director of Sacramento Theatre Company, Producing Director of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and on the directing staff of the Denver Center Theatre Company. He has served on the review panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. He received his B.A. in Theatre/Honors from the University of Massachusetts where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He resides in Rochester with his wife, artist Christina Selian, who teaches sewing crafts to children in their Highland Park home. Their older son, Maximilian, is in the doctoral program for Sociology at University of Illinois, Chicago, after teaching in South Africa on a Fulbright Scholarship and in the Philly schools as part of the Teach for America Program. Their younger son, Augustus, has been in the acting program at Fordham in Lincoln Center and is now acting on the Geva stage.