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Mark Savage (born September 17, 1962) is an Australian film and television screenwriter and film director, specializing in independent horror, cult, action and exploitation-themed films. He is influenced by European and Asian genre cinema, and has written critical reviews and articles for the Herald-Sun, Asian Cult Cinema, Filmnet and Fatal Visions. His most recent film, Defenceless, won the Best Film award at the 2005 Melbourne Underground Film Festival. Mark Savage (born September 19, ????) is an American playwright, songwriter, and theatre director. He specializes in Gay Musical Theatre and is associated with the Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles. His coming-out musical "The Ballad Of Little Mikey" premiered in 1994 and has had productions in a dozen US cities. He wrote a song for "Naked Boys Singing," an Off-Broadway Musical Review that has run for 6 years. He curated a reading series called "Queering the Classics," which in 2001 spawned "Pinafore!," a gay adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's HMS Pinafore. "Pinafore!" Won Best Musical at the LA Weekly Theatre Awards and Best Production at the 2003 NY Fringe Festival and the Original cast recording was released by Belva Records
