Marc Givens (Director)

 Marc Givens was born the son of an Alabama sharecropper and an Austrian pharmacist on the crisp, sunless morning of July 4, 1957. His childhood was relatively uneventful - spent stuffing cotton from his father's fields into pill bottles at his mother's dispensary - until something marvelous happened that forever changed the path of his destiny. A chance encounter with Marilyn Monroe (who had stopped off for a Coke and some Demerol) opened his eyes to the glamorous and somewhat strange-smelling world of thespianism. Though onstage opportunities were rare for blacks, they could more or less do what they wanted as long as they weren't seen...and so Marc fell hopelessly in love with the role of director.

 Though he has since had countless successes both in Hollywood and around the world, Marc's love for the "little people" of community theatre has brought him back to his humble, hardworking, sharecropping roots.  He hopes you'll enjoy - "cotton to," as it were - this premiere Kingston effort of the Company of Lost Souls.