Mark Sweeney

Mark Sweeney is a performer/ composer/ writer living in Minneapolis. He's recently been seen performing with Savage Umbrella, as well as at The Minnesota Fringe Festival and the Tiny Funny Women Fest. He also hosts and produces the podcast Twin Cities Song Story at noisepicnic.com

Articles by this author

Singing about history

by Mark Sweeney
May 18, 2015

Twin Cities Song Story gets into the process with Placebase Productions.

Persephone and developing an instrument

by Mark Sweeney
April 9, 2015

Learn a lot from hearing the thoughts of this innovative composer.

You've got a friend

by Mark Sweeney
March 15, 2015

Hear a new song from the expanded production of Fruit Fly in this month's Twin Cities Song Story.

Making silence song

by Mark Sweeney
February 9, 2015

Perrin Post, Laurie Flanigan-Hegge, and Dina Maccabee discuss how a short story that became a film can become a live musical. Listen to Twin Cities Song Story discuss Sweetland: The Musical.

Twin Cities Song Story: Instant Songwriting

by Mark Sweeney
January 12, 2015

You think writing a song is hard? Try doing it alone while performing live.

Song Story podcast previews Jonah

by Mark Sweeney
December 14, 2014

How do you take musical talent and storytelling passion and make it into a song for a musical with a biblical plot? Find out in this podcast.

How did they do that?

by Mark Sweeney
November 9, 2014

Put on your headphones and do a deep dive into how Sandbox created one of the songs in their new show.

Riding that train

by Mark Sweeney
October 22, 2014

Theater on the green line? For 200 people? What is this moving theater people keep making? Who is Green Line Theater?

Breaking the 'Wicked' curse

by Mark Sweeney
November 13, 2013

Mark Sweeney has not seen 'Wicked,' and he'd like to know why everyone assumes he has.