The Mark Twain Lecture: An Evening with Rainn Wilson

St. Mary’s College’s Mark Twain Lecture Series on American Humor and Culture was launched in 2007. Since then, the series has grown to one of the largest events in Southern Maryland.

Award-winning actor, comedian and New York Times bestselling author
 

Rainn Wilson is an Emmy-nominated and SAG award-winning actor best known for

playing the inimitable “Dwight Schrute” for nine seasons on NBC’s “The

Office.” He recently wrapped “Lessons in Chemistry” with Brie Larson for Apple

TV+ and the unscripted travel series “Rainn Wilson and the Geography of

Bliss,” which aired on Peacock in May of 2023.
 

He stars in “Jerry & Marge Go Large,” with Bryan Cranston and Annette

Bening; “Utopia” for Amazon; Roger Michell's “Blackbird,” opposite Kate Winslet;

“The Meg” alongside Jason Statham; “Hesher,” opposite Natalie Portman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; James Gunn’s “Super,” with Kevin Bacon and Elliot Page; “Cooties” opposite Elijah Wood; “Juno”; “Galaxy Quest”; and “Almost Famous.”
 

Wilson has an MFA from New York University at the Tisch School of the Arts and spent 10 years doing theater in New York City before moving to Los Angeles. He was on Broadway in “The Tempest” with Patrick Stewart and in the Tony-nominated “London Assurance.”  He performed the critically acclaimed one-person monologue “Thom Pain (Based on Nothing)” at The Geffen and played the lead role in the political farce “The Doppelganger” at Steppenwolf Theater.
 

Wilson founded the digital media company, Soul Pancake. He is the author of “The Bassoon King” and the NYT bestselling “SoulPancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions.” His newest book, “Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution,” is also a NYT bestseller.

A book signing will happen immediately following the lecture.