Mark Stein (born 1951) is an American writer.

Early life and education

Raised in

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, he graduated from the

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in 1973.

Career

Stein wrote the screenplay for the

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and

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film ''

Housesitter ''Housesitter'' is a 1992 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Oz, written by Mark Stein, and starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. The premise involves a woman with con-artist tendencies who worms her way into the life of a reserved ...

.'' His stage plays were first produced at New Playwrights Theater of

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. From there he went on to productions at Actors Theater of Louisville,

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, South Coast Repertory, the

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, the Fountain Theater in

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, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, and elsewhere. His non-fiction book, ''How the States Got Their Shapes'', became the basis for a History Channel series by the same name.

Works

;Published plays * ''The Groves of Academe'' and ''The Plumber's Apprentice'' (New York: Dramatists Play Service), 1983 * ''At Long Last Leo'' (New York: Dramatists Play Service), 1987 * ''Ghost Dance'' (New York: Playscripts Ltd., 2003) * ''Direct from Death Row the Scottsboro Boys,'' (New York: Dramatists Play Service), 2006 ;Film and television * ''A Quiet Little Neighborhood, A Perfect Little Murder'', NBC Movie of the Week, (dir. Anson Williams; starring Teri Garr, Robert Urich), October 14, 1990 * ''Housesitter'', Imagine Films/Universal Studios, (dir. Frank Oz; starring Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn), 1992 * ''Chance of a Lifetime'', CBS Movie of the Week, (dir. Deborah Reinish; starring John Ritter, Jean Stapleton), March 29, 1998 * ''Help Wanted, Male'', Episode of Nero Wolfe (dir. Timothy Hutton; starring Timothy Hutton, Maury Chakin, Bill Smitrovich, Larry Drake), 2002 ;Non-fiction * ''How the States Got Their Shapes'' (New York: Smithsonian/HarperCollins, 2008) , * ''How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines'' (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2011) * ''American Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why'' (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) , * ''Vice Capades : Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present'', Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2017, , * ''The Presidential Fringe : Questing & Jesting for the Oval Office'', Lincoln: Potomac Books, 2020, ,

References

* Stein, Mark, Internet Movie Database (IMDb) https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825559/ * Stein, Mark, Doollee.com playwright database http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stein-mark.html * Stein, Mark, Library of Congress catalog http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?hd=1,4&Search_Arg=stein%2C%20mark&Search_Code=NAME%40&CNT=100&type=quick&PID=eDtVG6VdcPYnZAsXaJUtmg4Sp16&HIST=0&SEQ=20131201095521&SID=1 * Stein, Mark, homepage http://www.marksteinauthor.com/index.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Stein, Mark 1951 births Living people People from Silver Spring, Maryland University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American male screenwriters American male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers Screenwriters from Maryland