Writer. Actor. Storyteller.
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Mark-Eugene Garcia is a Chicano playwright, storyteller, and theatre-maker, blending cultural legacy, and theatrical grit in every work. A 2025 Candela Playwright’s Fellow and a 2025/2026 Resident Artist at FRIGID New York, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a graduate of the City College of New York. He honed his craft in book and lyric writing with the Academy of New Musical Theatre and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.
Mark-Eugene’s work has earned the 2021 Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Musical Theatre, the 2018 UnFringed Festival Best of Festival Award, a 2016 Vancouver Ovation Award nomination for Outstanding New Work, a 2013 Planet Connections nomination for Outstanding Book of a New Musical, and the 2012 Jacob Weiser Playwriting Award for a Fully Realized Drama.
Through plays and musicals that center Latine voices, queer identity, and emotional truth, Mark-Eugene creates stories that are unapologetically theatrical, deeply personal, and vibrantly alive.
Mark-Eugene’s work has earned the 2021 Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Musical Theatre, the 2018 UnFringed Festival Best of Festival Award, a 2016 Vancouver Ovation Award nomination for Outstanding New Work, a 2013 Planet Connections nomination for Outstanding Book of a New Musical, and the 2012 Jacob Weiser Playwriting Award for a Fully Realized Drama.
Through plays and musicals that center Latine voices, queer identity, and emotional truth, Mark-Eugene creates stories that are unapologetically theatrical, deeply personal, and vibrantly alive.
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Mark-Eugene has an extensive performing career, including reuniting with his high school friends in the Original Cast of ENCORE! on ABC with Kristen Bell, starring in Encore's Pilot Episode of Into the Woods, and playing Detective Mark Besim on Sidekick Productions' DEMON DOCTOR. He also has recurring roles as Simon on SKELETON CREW and Skylar in THE ART OF BLOWING IT.
His stage journey spans from New York to California, with notable roles in productions like INTO THE WOODS (The Baker, ABC Television), THE UNDERPANTS GODOT (Mark), and A STRANGE AND SEPARATE PEOPLE (Jay Berman). Mark-Eugene has contributed as a dramaturg with the New York Musical Theatre Festival and worked with productions such as "TEMPLE OF THE SOULS," "EMOJILAND," "ILLUMINATI LIZARDS FROM OUTER SPACE," and "KAFKA'S METAMORPHOSIS."
In addition to his performing career, he is also part of the Management Team of The Drama Bookshop and co-hosts THE DRAMA BOOK SHOW! on the Broadway Podcast Network.
His stage journey spans from New York to California, with notable roles in productions like INTO THE WOODS (The Baker, ABC Television), THE UNDERPANTS GODOT (Mark), and A STRANGE AND SEPARATE PEOPLE (Jay Berman). Mark-Eugene has contributed as a dramaturg with the New York Musical Theatre Festival and worked with productions such as "TEMPLE OF THE SOULS," "EMOJILAND," "ILLUMINATI LIZARDS FROM OUTER SPACE," and "KAFKA'S METAMORPHOSIS."
In addition to his performing career, he is also part of the Management Team of The Drama Bookshop and co-hosts THE DRAMA BOOK SHOW! on the Broadway Podcast Network.