Mark Kirkland

Mark Kirkland

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Director Supervising director Storyboard artist Status: Active Number of episodes: 105 Seasons active: Season 2 - Present First episode: "Dancin' Homer" Most recent episode: "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"

Mark Kirkland is an American animator and director for The Simpsons. He currently serves as a director and previously served as a supervising director and storyboard artist.

Credits

Director

Episode – "Dancin' Homer" Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" Episode – "Principal Charming" Episode – "The War of the Simpsons" Episode – "Homer Defined" Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" Episode – "Homer Alone" Episode – "Colonel Homer" Episode – "Kamp Krusty" Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen" Episode – "Lisa's First Word" Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield" Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" Episode – "Marge on the Lam" Episode – "Homer and Apu" Episode – "Burns' Heir" Episode – "Lisa's Rival" Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts" Episode – "Fear of Flying" Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma" Episode – "The Springfield Connection" Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian" Episode – "Team Homer" Episode – "A Fish Called Selma" Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2" Episode – "The Homer They Fall" Episode – "Mountain of Madness" Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" as "Mad Dog Kirkland" Episode – "Bart Carny" Episode – "Girly Edition" Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind" (with Matthew Nastuk) Episode – "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"" Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student" Episode – "Brother's Little Helper" Episode – "Little Big Mom" Episode – "Pygmoelian" Episode – "Behind the Laughter" Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" Episode – "Simpson Safari" Episode – "The Parent Rap" Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge" Episode – "Gump Roast" Episode – "Helter Shelter" Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo" Episode – "The Regina Monologues" Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" Episode – "Mommie Beerest" Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees" Episode – "The Italian Bob" Episode – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore" Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa" Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" Episode – "That '90s Show" Episode – "The Burns and the Bees" Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally" Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z"" Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge" Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale" Episode – "Elementary School Musical" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "Homer Scissorhands" Episode – "Replaceable You" Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart" Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys" Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School" Episode – "Dark Knight Court" Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" Episode – "The Kid is All Right" Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" Episode – "Super Franchise Me" Episode – "I Won't Be Home For Christmas" Episode – "Peeping Mom" Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"

Storyboard

• Episode – "Dancin' Homer"
• Episode – "Homer Defined"
• Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
• Episode – "Marge on the Lam"
• Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts"
• Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
• Episode – "The Homer They Fall"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII"
• Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
• Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"

Globe animation

• Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge"

Supervising director

Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple" Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" Episode – "The Wife Aquatic" Episode – "Little Big Girl" Episode – "Springfield Up" Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" Episode – "Homer of Seville" Episode – "Midnight Towboy" Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" (as Mark 'Maniac' Kirkland) Episode – "Little Orphan Millie" Episode – "Husbands and Knives" Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend" Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" Episode – "E Pluribus Wiggum" Episode – "That '90s Show" Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style" Episode – "The DeBarted" Episode – "Dial 'N' for Nerder" Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter" Episode – "Apocalypse Cow" Episode – "Any Given Sundance" Episode – "Mona Leaves-a" Episode – "All About Lisa" Episode – "Lost Verizon" Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" (as Mad Dog Kirkland)

Animation director

• Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Notes

• At the time "D'oh-in' in the Wind" was being produced, Kirkland was going through a divorce, so Matthew Nastuk took over the directorial duties for the first act.

External links

• Mark Kirkland at the Internet Movie Database
• Mark Kirkland at Wikipedia
• Mark Kirkland at Twitter

Directors

Current directors Timothy Bailey • Chris Clements • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Matthew Faughnan • Eric Koenig • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Matthew Nastuk • Rob Oliver • Mike Frank Polcino Former directors Neil Affleck • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Wes Archer • Carlos Baeza • Brad Bird • Kent Butterworth • Susan Dietter • Mark Ervin • Milton Gray • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kirkland • Lance Kramer • Nancy Kruse • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Michael Marcantel • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Rich Moore • Steven Dean Moore • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Jim Reardon • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • David Silverman • Ralph Sosa One time directors Shaun Cashman • Sang-Yong Eom • Klay Hall • Alan Smart • Gregg Vanzo Supervising directors Mike B. Anderson • Dominic Bianchi • Mark Kirkland • Pete Michels • James Purdum • Jim Reardon • David Silverman Second unit directors Timothy Bailey • Oscar Cervantes • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Rob Oliver • Matthew Schofield • Shane K. Sowell Other directors Bill Brown • Stephen Chiodo • Sylvain Chomet • Guillermo del Toro • Bernard Derriman • David Green • Jorge R. Gutierrez • John Harvatine IV • Garry Kitchen • Selina Mehta • Juan Meza-León • Chris Palmer • Bill Plympton • John Rice • Paul Robertson • Hal Rushton • Peter Shin • Bartek Socha • Jakob Socha • Jakub Socha • Kuba Socha • Michał Socha • Morgan Spurlock • Eric Towner