Mark Bly is in his tenth season as Associate Artistic Director at Yale Repertory Theatre and Chair of the Playwriting Program at Yale School of Drama. Over the past ten years at Yale Repertory Theatre, he has served as a co-producer helping to produce more than 50 productions, including 11 world premieres.

Previously, he was Artistic Associate/ Dramaturg at Seattle Repertory Theatre and Dramaturg at Guthrie Theater, where he served as production dramaturg for many new plays, classics, and translations. He has dramaturged more than 60 productions at Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Class Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Yale Repertory Theatre, working with directors such as Liviu Ciulei, Garland Wright, Liz Diamond, Daniel Sullivan, Douglas Hughes, JoAnne Akalaitis, Stan Wojewodski, Jr., Emily Mann, and Peter Sellars. In 1986, he worked as the dramaturg for the Broadway production of Execution of Justice. He served as the dramaturg for the premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks' The America Play, which transferred from Yale Rep to The Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York. He was Stan Wojewodski, Jr.'s production dramaturg on the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Hamlet.

Mr. Bly was co-founder of the Minnesota Young Playwrights. He was an on-site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts from 1984 to 1986 and was a reader for their 1991 Playwriting Fellowships Program. This year, Mr. Bly served again as a play reader for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Mr. Bly is the Creator and Co-Director of the Yale Playwrights at New Dramatists Program and the Yale Playwrights at New Dramatists Play Reading Festival. He has taught at Yale University, Boston College, Fordham University, DePaul University, and at the University of Washington. He has written for Dramaturgy in American Theater: A Sourcebook, American Theatre, Theatre Symposium, Dramatists Sourcebook, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Theatre Journal, and Yale's Theatre magazine as a Contributing Editor and Advisory Editor.

He did his graduate work at Yale, and created and now heads the Production Notebooks Project for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. The first volume of Production Notebooks: Theater in Process, edited by Mark Bly, was published by Theatre Communications Group in 1996, and Volume II of the series will appear in 2001.