Mario Marcel is Argentine. With
more than 50 years dedicated to acting, theater education, and directing, in
Europe, South America and the United States, Marcel has participated in well
over 200 productions, and has held various official positions within the
cultural world as well. In 1984 Marcel arrived in Washington DC, where he
has worked with the Centro de Arte, Centro de la Juventud Latinoamericana,
and the OAS Grupo Panamericano de Teatro. After joining the ranks of GALA as
actor, he represented the United States at international festivals both
within and outside the United States. In 1991 Marcel co-founded Teatro de la
Luna, serving as director of its Workshops for Actors and Technicians,
bringing to the stage, and adapting universal and contemporary repertory
works. In 1994 he returned to GALA, without abandoning Teatro de la Luna,
and represented the U.S. once again at the International Theater Festival in
El Salvador, acting with Hugo Medrano in Airplanes by C. Gorostiza,
which was later added to GALA’s permanent repertoire. He has appeared many
times on the Latino Affairs Office’s Línea Directa TV show.
Presently Marcel is developing Teatro de la Luna’s Experience Theater
Program in schools throughout the area. In 1999, along with Nucky Walder,
he won the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington’s Tony Taylor Award and
in May 2005 he received the Elizabeth Campbell Award from the American
Association of University Women (AAUW). |