Mark St. Germain is an American playwright, author, film and television writer.
Career
Mark St. Germain has written Camping With Henry And Tom, Out of Gas On Lover’s Leap, Forgiving Typhoid Mary, Ears On A Beatle, The God Committee, The Collyer Brothers At Home, The Gifts of The Magi, The Book of the Dun Cow, Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer, Jack’s Holiday, and Stand By Your Man: The Tammy Wynette Story. His television credits include The Cosby Show, Crime and Punishment and The Wright Verdicts. He co-wrote the screenplay for Carroll Ballard’s Duma. He was also a script writer on the CBS Daytime serialAs the World Turns. As a personal project, he directed and co-produced the documentary "MY DOG: An Unconditional Love Story", featuring, among others, Richard Gere, Glenn Close and Lynn Redgrave. As a dramatist, St. Germain shows a strong preference for historical fiction. Recent works include:
Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah, premiering in August 2013, explores an evening at Los Angeles' notorious Garden of Allah apartments with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
2012's Dr. Ruth, All the Way, which reveals the little-known but remarkable history of Karola Ruth Siegel, who fled the Nazis in the Kindertransport before joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a sniper and scout, and, ultimately, becoming known as American TV sex expert Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
In the summer of 2011, St. Germain's play The Best of Enemies premiered at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Osha Gray Davidson, St. Germain's play dramatizes the relationship between C.P. Ellis and Ann Atwater during a racially tense period in the desegregation of Durham, North Carolina schools. His previous play, Freud's Last Session, premiered in the summer of 2009, also at the Barrington Stage Company, and ran at the New World Stages in New York City. Freud's Last Session began its New York previews on July 9, 2010, and officially opened on July 22, 2010. In April 2011, Freud's Last Session won the Best Play Award from the off-Broadway Alliance. In 2014, St. Germain premiered his eighth play, Dancing Lessons at Barrington Stage Company. The play ran from January 6 to February 7, 2016, at as part of their 2015–16 Signature Series. The show was produced at Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, Florida as a part of their 2014–2015 Mainstage Season. Florida Studio Theatre has partnered with St. Germain to workshop many of his works in progress. His relationship with Barrington Stage—the Pittsfield, Massachusetts regional theatre where virtually all of St. Germain's recent works have premiered—was memorialized in 2012 when the troupe's Stage 2 venue was renamed the St. Germain Stage. He has written the award-winning children's bookThree Cups.
