Mark Hoebee is New Paper Mill Artistic Director

The Paper Mill Playhouse Board of Trustees is proud to announce that Mark S. Hoebee, Paper Mill's Acting Artistic Director since March of 2007 has been promoted to Artistic Director effective immediately.  Mr. Hoebee joined Paper Mill Playhouse in June of 2000 as Associate Artistic Director.  Most recently Mr. Hoebee directed the critically acclaimed production of Meet Me in St. Louis at the New Jersey theatre.

Mark S. Hoebee is a director and choreographer whose work has been seen at theaters all over North America.  In the fall of 2006, Mark directed the Actors Fund Benefit Concert of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at the August Wilson Theatre which starred Emily Skinner, Terry Mann and Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson as well as Songs For NU York, a benefit for Northwestern University at The Promenade Theatre which starred Tony Roberts, Penny Fuller and Patricia Neal.  In  recent years he has directed five companies of Victor/Victoria including the first national tour starring Grammy Award winner Toni Tennille, Almost Like Being In Love: An Evening With Lerner and Loewe which toured the United States and Canada starring Diahann Carroll and regional tours of Company and Dreamgirls.  He directed Paper Mill's highly lauded productions of Meet Me in St. Louis, Hello, Dolly! starring Tovah Feldshuh, The King & I starring Kevin Gray and Carolee Carmello, Dreamgirls, and in 2002 was granted special permission from Sir Cameron Macintosh to direct an all-new production of Miss Saigon for Paper Mill's stage.

In spring of 2005, Mark worked along side Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire as he directed and choreographed the new version of their 1983 Broadway show Baby and the following winter he directed and choreographed the world premiere of Tom Jones and Joseph Thalken's Harold and Maude: The Musical  starring Estelle Parsons.

Mark S. Hoebee has over forty shows to his credit as a director and/or choreographer including such standards as 42nd Street, Gypsy, Brigadoon, Singin' In the Rain, West Side Story and Sweet Charity (for which he was awarded Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award as Best Choreographer), as well as rarely produced shows like Grand Hotel (the American Stock Premiere), Baby (starring Liz Callaway), 70 Girls 70, The First, Romance/Romance and Windy City.  Mark made his Network television debut as choreographer for the highly rated CBS show Touched by an Angel. The episode guest starredCarol Burnett, Rita Moreno, Carol Channing and Tim Conway. 

His performance credits include the Broadway companies of Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Nick & Nora, Beauty and the Beast, the Menken/Ahrens A Christmas Carol, as well as working alongside Blake Edwards and Rob Marshall in Victor/Victoria starring Julie Andrews.  He has also appeared in national touring companies of Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line – The Broadway Tour of America, Sweet Charity directed by Bob Fosse, Camelot with Richard Harris, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. 

Rounding out the Paper Mill season The Miracle Worker (January 23-February 24) is the enduring comedy Steel Magnolias (March 5-April 6), the classic Cole Porter Masterpiece Kiss Me, Kate (April 16-May18) and the "freakishly funny" musical Little Shop of Horrors (June 4-July 6). Visit Paper Mill's website for a complete list of programming at www.papermill.org.

Mark Hoebee

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