Mark Savage (born September 19, 1958) is an American playwright, songwriter, and theatre director. He specializes in

gay ''Gay'' is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual. The term originally meant 'carefree', 'cheerful', or 'bright and showy'. While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 1 ...

musical theatre Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movemen ...

and is associated with the

Celebration Theatre The Celebration Theatre is a 501(c)(3) non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles, founded in 1982. The company is located in West Hollywood, on the west end of Theatre Row, and specializes in works representing the LGBTQ+ experience. History C ...

in Los Angeles. His coming-out musical ''The Ballad Of Little Mikey'', premiered in 1994 and has had productions in a dozen US cities. He wrote a song for ''

Naked Boys Singing ''Naked Boys Singing!'' is a musical revue that features traditional American vaudeville-style music performed by eight actors who sing and dance naked. The campy musical comedy premiered at the Celebration Theatre in West Hollywood, California ...

'', an Off-Broadway musical review that ran for six years. He curated a reading series called "Queering the Classics," which in 2001 spawned ''Pinafore!'', a gay adaptation of

Gilbert & Sullivan Gilbert and Sullivan was a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900), who jointly created fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which ''H.M.S. Pina ...

's ''

HMS Pinafore ''H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor'' is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, whi ...

''. ''Pinafore!'' won Best Musical at the LA Weekly Theatre Awards and Best Production at the 2003

New York International Fringe Festival The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, was a fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It took place over the course of a few weeks in October, spread on more than 20 stages across seve ...

and the Original

cast recording A cast recording is a recording of a stage musical that is intended to document the songs as they were performed in the show and experienced by the audience. An original cast recording or OCR, as the name implies, features the voices of the sho ...

was released by Belva Records.

External links

Celebration Theatre

The Ballad Of Little Mikey

Naked Boys Singing

Pinafore!
American dramatists and playwrights American male songwriters American musical theatre directors Living people 1958 births {{US-playwright-stub