Springfield

I don't want to cut the conversations with them short, so I'm pleased to bring you the first of what is going to be a two-part interview with the director and the teacher, Mark Lord.

Mark Lord is a native of Springfield, Pennsylvania, the one in Delaware County.

During his teenage and college years, he acted in juvenile roles with the newly founded Classical Summer Theater at Villanova University.

He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1984 and then received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1987, but he returned in to the Philly area, and at the age of only 26, was hired as professor of theater at Bryn Mawr, creating productions for the students of Bryn Mawr and Haverford colleges.

And yeah, and I adored performing in all of those things.

But you asked about my growing up, and this is a really formative story for me.

I grew up in Springfield, which is a very conservative...

That was a very