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Mark Rhea (born 20th century) is an American director, actor, and arts leader.
He is the founder and producing artistic director of Keegan Theatre, a small professional American theater based in Washington, D.C. Rhea founded Keegan in 1996, staging Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as its first production in 1997.
A four-time Helen Hayes Awards nominee, Rhea was honored for Outstanding Direction, Musical-Helen Production in 2017 for Keegan's production of Next to Normal .
Rhea has produced, directed or co-directed more than sixty productions at Keegan since 1997, including annual productions of An Irish Carol and multiple touring productions to Ireland. His directing credits include Keegan productions of Chicago , Big Fish , The Lonesome West , Next to Normal, and American Idiot .
He has also acted in more than forty Keegan Theatre productions. His notable acting roles have included Teach in American Buffalo , Lt. Col. Nathan Jessup in A Few Good Men , Howie in Rabbit Hole , Carmichael in A Beheading in Spokane , John Proctor in The Crucible , Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman , and Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire .
A Texan of Irish heritage, Rhea is married to fellow artist Susan Marie Rhea, an actor, director, and artistic director of Keegan Theatre. [1] [2] They were married in 2003 in Galway, Ireland, while touring Ireland with Keegan's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . [3]
