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Mark Burgess grew up fly-fishing in Montana, playing basketball as a Knight and a UM Grizzly, then studied Creative Writing, Finance and Biology as a UA Wildcat and running his first publishing house (Blue Moon Press.) In the publications department and later the project office for General Dynamics, he got an MBA at night from The USD Toreros and spent two years as the marketing department for a project software company before starting his own software company building anything he could find in Clarion and Visual Basic while writing two books and acting as contributing editor to five technical magazines and becoming one of the first 200 certified Project Management Professionals after which he founded sandiego.com in 1994 (San Diego's 3rd ISP and originator of kpbs.org, san.org, sandiego.org, sdfair.com and Legoland California's first website)....then PageMountain.com in 2010 building and hosting online applications for business - from branding to site construction and hosting. His day job today is Director of IT for Evoque Data Center Solutions, with 30 data centers in 10 countries.
Hi Mark,
I am the new marketing manager at Oceanside Theatre Company at the Brooks. We would love to have you review “Billie! Backstage with Lady Day” which is making its San Diego Premiere Sept. 23 – Oct. 2. Let me know if I can set aside tickets for you for opening night on Sept. 23rd at 8 p.m. or for another one of our shows.
The award-winning play, written by Synthia L. Hardy and directed by Bryan Rasmussen combines storytelling and song to capture the essence of Billie Holiday’s music and life. One of the greatest jazz and blues performers of all time, Holiday, as performed by Hardy, unfolds the truth about her turbulent past – combating racism, navigating abusive relationships, and enduring multiple arrests. Musician Woody Woods joins Hardy on stage as Holiday’s pianist, accompanying her through hits including the haunting “Strange Fruit,” as well as “God Bless the Child,” “Good Morning Heartache,” and “Lover Man.”
“Billie! Backstage With Lady Day,” which premiered at The Whitefire Theater in 2010 and has enjoyed annual encore performances in Los Angeles, has won the NAACP Theatre Award for Best One Person Show, as well as two Artistic Director Achievement Awards (A.D.A.) – Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy and Best One Person Show. We hope that the San Diego Premiere which will also feature some of our local musicians accompanying Hardy in the second act for her performance as Billie Holiday in concert will be as engaging.
We hope you can make it out to one of our shows.
All my best,
Meg Pierce
619-453-5344