Marcus Doshi’s body of work spans several continents across diverse disciplines. Theatre in New York includes the American Premiere of TERRORISM for The New Group & The Play Company, PATRIOT ACTS: AN AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE and NOBODY’S LUNCH at PS 122 (Premiere), 59E599 & on national tour for the Civilians, with whom he is an Associate Artist, The Obie Award winning production of MOLLY’S DREAM for Soho Rep., The Obie Award winning production of MENOPAUSAL GENTLEMAN at the Ohio Theatre, many projects with Synapse Productions, with whom he is also an Associate Artist, including the NY production, and subsequent national tour, of ANIMAL FARM: THE PUPPET MUSICAL, and the Guggenheim Museum and Danspace Center presentations of Moving Theater’s WITHOUT, among many others.
Elsewhere in the United States, numerous designs with The Yale Repertory Theatre, The Hartford Stage Company, TheatreWorks, Barrington Stage, Geva Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Triad Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Wagon Wheel, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Court Theatre, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Tooth & Nail Theater, California Shakespeare, Sacramento Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre among others.
His opera designs have been seen in New York at the Lincoln Center Festival, THE HILDEGURLS: ELECTRONIC ORDO VIRTUTUM; at PS 122, HELL (the opera); and at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, the premiere of DON IMBROGLIO. Also with the Virginia Opera Association, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, The Florentine Opera, and many with the Opera Program of the University of Kansas. His international work includes director Peter Sellar’s production of THE CHILDREN OF HERAKLES for the 2004 Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, Austria & the Holland Festival 2004, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; the India tour of U.S. based Thresh Company’s full length evening of contemporary dance STRINGS UNATTACHED playing the Delhi Habitat Centre, the Neemrana Centre, the Museum Theatre in Chennai, The Darpana Academy of Performing Arts and the National Centre for Performing Arts in Mumbai, and the subsequent presentation at the Joyce Soho; and choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro’s classical Cambodian dance for the Royal University of Fine Arts (rehearsed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia), SAMRITECHAK which was presented to world audiences as part of the 2003 Bienalle di Venezia in Venice, Italy.
In his early career, Marcus extensively assisted senior Lighting Designers Jennifer Tipton and Robert Wierzel. With Ms. Tipton; Theatre and many dances including work with American Ballet Theatre, The Paul Taylor Dance Company and Pick Up Performance Company; he was also the assistant for Ms. Tipton’s lighting of Artist Robert Gober’s American Pavillion at the 2001 Bienalle di Venezia; and her light installation, PANDORA’S DOOR which was commissioned and created specifically for the Smisthsonian Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial; as well as many others. With Mr. Wierzel, numerous theatrical and opera endeavors including L’ETOILE for Opera de Motréal.
In 2001 Marcus was honored with the USITT Barbizon Award for Lighting Design. In 2002, his essay “Edward Gordon Craig: Towards the Art fo the Theater of the Future – Influences and Development of the Über-Marionette and Kinetic Stage” was published in the journal Thinking About Theater and Film, edited by James Fisher. And, in 2003, he was chosen as a recipient of the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Program with which he pursued diverse avenues of study; from using musical terminology as a language for lighting designers to the emerging stylistic influence of contemporary East-Indian arts on American Theatre. Marcus has served as a Guest Critic for Hunter College, City University of New York, Wabash College, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, the Yale University School of Drama, as well as the Allaince Française in Chennai, India.
Marcus received his early training from Wabash College where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, and with distinction on comprehensive exams, in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Art. His work at Wabash was highly praised; he was awared the Kenneth Kloth Design Prize three years in a row; the Ermine C. Leonardis award for Dramaturgy, the Stephens-Hall Scholarship, and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in a creative endevour for his scenic & projection design of THE VISIT. In 2000, he graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in Stage Design from the Yale University School of Drama.
