Mark Crees

Mark Crees was trained in the LA Actor's Studio style at the Melbourne Actor's Studio, with over 40 credits for screen and stage. He was primarily active in the late 2000s, highlights of which were the stage roles of Joe Pitt in Angels in America and Rev. Hale in The Crucible. Pursued as a component of embodied engagement that was explored within the context of a PhD degree in Monash University's School of English, Communications, and Performance Studies, the degree was part of the Critical Theory / Cultural Theory branch of the school and focused on the importance of arts and culture for understanding the human condition, with extensive work on the importance of space and bodies in space and the curatorial sense of place-making and provision of space in order for human flourishing. The work also included a robust analysis of the oeuvre of theorist Georges Bataille, exploring his work through a critical-theoretical lens that borrowed heavily from post-structuralist theory with forays into analytical psychology and embodied approaches to understanding both epistemology and hermeneutics.