- Born
- Birth nameMarcus Frank Harelik
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Mr. Harelik, a native Texan, grew up in the only Jewish family in the small town of Hamilton in central Texas, where his two biographical plays, The Immigrant and The Legacy, take place.
With Randal Myler, he co-wrote Hank Williams: Lost Highway, a biographical musical about the life of the country singer Hank Williams.
The Immigrant, The Musical, is based upon his play.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Mark Harelik
- SpouseSpencer Kayden(October 2004 - present) (1 child)
- Portraying lawyers and other people of authority
- His 1991 play "The Immigrant," a telling of his Jewish grandparents' immigration to rural Texas and their first thirty years of life there, was the most widely produced play in the country. It has had presentations done at nearly every major theater in the country, among them, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, The Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles, Theater Forty in Los Angeles, A.C.T. in San Francisco, the Denver Center Theater Company, The Alley Theater in Houston, and well over a hundred more theaters in cities and towns nationwide.
- A native Texan who grew up in the only Jewish family in the small town of Hamilton in central Texas, where his two biographical plays "The Immigrant" and its sequel, "The Legacy," take place.
- Played the character, "Judas" in three shows at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts: "Godspell", "Jesus Christ, Superstar" and Robert Patrick's play, "Judas".
- Wrote the book for the new musical "The Immigrant," based upon his play. In 2002, the musical adaptation played at the Denver Center Theater, and The Coconut Grove in Miami.
- Artistic advisor at the American National Theatre.
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