Mark W Sasse

Mark W Sasse is a novelist and award-winning playwright. He is a theatre enthusiast and love directing and producing shows. Sasse’s novels have been featured on curated sites such as Bookbub, Freebooksy, and EReaderNewsToday while his plays have been produced in New York, Penang, Columbus, Kuala Lumpur, and Sydney, Australia, among other places. His play "The Last Bastion" earned him the 2018 Greywood Arts Winter Writing Residency in Ireland. He is also a three-time winner of the Best Script Award at the Penang Short & Sweet Theatre Festival. His plays have won multiple other awards such as Best Overall Performance and Audience Choice Award. He won the Festival Director’s Award at the 2019 and 2016 festivals.

Sasse has lived overseas for more than two decades in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia. Sasse’s interests cast a wide net – from politics to literature – from culture and language to history and religion, making his writing infused with the unexpected as he seeks to tell authentic and engaging stories about people from all walks of life. His writing is straightforward and accessible to all, especially those who enjoy a page-turning good story injected with doses of history, adventure, Asian culture, and unexpected humor.

As for his plays, he’s fond of both the short play (10 minutes or less) and full-length formats. From 2011-2017 he wrote for and directed the drama ensemble The RLT Players, a passionate group of dramatic storytellers who specialized in the short play format. In September 2016, his experimental theatre piece “How to Build a Dictator” was featured as part of Penangpac’s Black Box Experiments series.

Currently, he lives in Jamestown NY where he produces theatre shows, manages a theatre for a SUNY school, and, of course, writes!

The Complete List of Published Works by Mark W Sasse

NOVELS

Lady Trieu and the Demon Warrior of Hanoi (2023)

Christmas in '45 (2022)

The Lost Lineup: Myths & Tales of the Winasook Iron Horses (2022)

A Diamond for Her: Myths & Tales of the Winasook Iron Horses (2021)

Moses the Singer (2020)

A Parting in the Sky (The Forgotten Child Book 3) (2019)

The African Connection (The Forgotten Child Book 2) (2018)

A Man too Old for a Place too Far (The Forgotten Child Book 1) (2017)

Which Half David: A Modern-day King David Story (2016)

A Love Story for a Nation (2015)

The Reach of the Banyan Tree (2014)

The Recluse Storyteller (2013)

Beauty Rising (2012)

THE SHORT PLAY COLLECTION

Monologues for Audition, Classroom, and Stage (coming 2021) (Short Play Collection Vol 5)

Tales of Redemption: Christian Themed-Plays for Stage, School, or Church (Short Play Collection Vol 4)

Dear High School (Short Play Collection Vol 3)

Tales of Wonder: Sacred and Secular Christmas Plays (Short Play Collection Vol 2)

Theatrical Duets for Stage, Competition, and Classroom (Short Play Collection Vol 1)

OTHER PLAYS

The Folly of Progress (2017)

The Last Bastion (2017)

How to Build a Dictator (2016)

The Secrets of the Magic Pool (2016)

Grandparents’ War (2013)

Romans on the Couch (2011)

SHORT STORIES

The Hundred Pitch At-Bat (2019)

Jolly Old St. Hick (2018)

Christmas in the Trenches, 1914 (2016)

If Love is a Crime: A Christmas Story (2014)