Actor

Director

Musician

Marcus was recently in Hamlet at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, directed by renowned director Eleanor Holdridge. The show won high praise all around, with a reviewer from Broadway World declaring: "I loved Marcus Kyd's Claudius. Slickness is all. He manipulates, dissimulates, and improvises, never a hair out of place."

This summer Marcus directed Audrey Cefaly’s The Last Wide Open at the Adirondack Theatre Festival, starring fellow Taffety Punk company member and fabulous actor Kimberly Gilbert and the equally fabulous Robert Ariza. 

Over the winter and spring, Marcus co-directed a devised adaptation of Macbeth, with Emma Jaster, for the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy at GWU. At the same time he appeared in Incognito by Nick Payne, directed by Allison Arkell Stockman at Constellation Theatre Company in Washington, DC.

In the Fall of 2022, Marcus directed Lindsay Carpenter’s Our Black Death, for Taffety Punk Theatre Company. Featuring music by Garland of Hours, the brilliant cast of the show won rave reviews all around. The show also played to sold houses for all but two nights.

  

See Marcus in Incognito by Nick Payne, directed by Allison Arkell Stockman at Constellation Theatre Company in Washington, DC. The show will run until March 12. Get your tickets here.

Marcus is also currently co-directing a devised adaptation of Macbeth, with Emma Jaster, for the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy at GWU. The shows are just March 10 & 11, and both dates are already sold out.

This summer Marcus will direct Audrey Cefaly’s The Last Wide Open at the Adirondack Theatre Festival, starring fellow Taffety Punk company member Kimberly Gilbert. More on that project soon.

In the Fall of 2022, Marcus directed Lindsay Carpenter’s Our Black Death, for Taffety Punk Theatre Company. Featuring music by Garland of Hours, the brilliant cast of the show won rave reviews all around. The show also played to sold houses for all but two nights. 

Marcus pictured above as Len, in Labour of Love at Olney Theater. Photo by Teresa Castracane.

Contact

c/o Taffety Punk
PO Box 15392
Washington, DC 20003

info {at} marcuskyd {dot} com

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Marcus keeps many of  his profiles private, but you can follow Taffety Punk, where he is very active.

Also there is some music here. Some here.