Mr. Tooch comes to UNT from The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, where he served as the Assistant Technical Director of a LORT B regional theatre under the artistic direction of Michael Kahn. Prior to the Shakespeare, Mario spent three years in the graduate program at the prestigious Yale School of Drama in the Department of Technical Design and Production. While attending Yale, Mario spent his summers working as an Assistant Technical Director at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California. His undergraduate degree in Drama is from the Clair Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California at Irvine.