Originally devised by the internationally-acclaimed theatre comany Complicite, Mnemonic presents the collision of three lives: a man alone in his London flat, unable to sleep; a young woman on a pilgrimage through Eastern Europe in search of her father; and a 5200-year old corpse discovered in the ice of the Italian alps. This engaging and innovative production explores the quest for connections in the midst of a fragmented world - connections that come from community as well as from the continuity of memory.

Mark E. Lococo most recently directed The Miser at the Northlight Theatre in Chicago. In 2006, he directed Mountain for the Apple Tree Theatre, where he is an Artistic Associate. Previous productions there include the Midwest premiere of Dessa Rose (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Best Director of a Musical), Uncle Vanya, the Chicago premiere of A Man of No Importance (winner of the 2004 After Dark Chicago Award for Best Production of a Musical) The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Indian Ink, Syncopation, The Dresser, The Swan, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Waiting for Godot, and Sugar. Also in 2006 he directed The Elephant Man at the Peninsula Playhouse in Wisconsin.

In 2005, Dr. Lococo directed Shaw’s Misalliance in a joint production of the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Graduate program, as well as a new musical version of The Princess and the Pea at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. In 2004, he directed Trumbo featuring noted author and Chicago personality Studs Terkel for Steppenwolf Theatre’s Traffic Series. He directed The Taffetas at the Peninsula Playhouse and Marriott’s Lincolnshire Theatre, (nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Director of a Review). He also directed Nunsense there in 1997. From 1997-1999, he was the Artistic Director of Theatre On the Bay in Marinette, Wisconsin, where he directed productions of Working, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, Lost in Yonkers, Crow and Weasel, and In Their Own Words: A Vietnam Chronicle, among others. In 1996, he directed A Christmas Carol for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Prior to that, he spent several months in London assisting director David Bell on the West End production of Hot Mikado. Other Chicago productions include Offending the Audience for Econo-Art Theatre, Fish and Rice for Pegasus Players, Letters from a Divided House for City Lit Theatre and the Chicago Historical Society, Streamers, Getting Out, The Actor’s Nightmare, and original adaptations of the novels Less Than Zero, Riddley Walker, Einstein’s Dreams, and The Water-Method Man by John Irving.

Until 2007, Dr. Lococo was Associate Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of Wisconsin in Waukesha, where he directed productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Laramie Project, Merton of the Movies, Crow and Weasel, The Comedy of Errors, The Primary English Class, Talking With.., Story Theatre, and And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank. He has also taught at Columbia University, the City University of New York, Columbia College Chicago, Triton College, National Louis University, and Northwestern University. He was the director of the theatre arts division of the National High School Institute of Northwestern University (Cherub Program) from 1992-1997. In July of 2007, he participated in a Roundtable at Oxford University on the divide between the humanities and sciences. Dr. Lococo is Chair of the Theatre as a Liberal Art Focus Group of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).

In 2008-09, he will direct The Producers at Milwaukee's Skylight Theatre, Wings at the Apple Tree Theatre, and Once On This Island at Porchlight Theatre. Dr. Lococo is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.