Most recently, in 2005, he directed A Winter's Tale for a national tour in South Africa.

His directorial credits include Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte [Opera West, Perth, Australia]; Shakespeare's Twelfth Night [National Arts Festival, South Africa], The Merry Wives of Windsor [Texas Shakespeare Festival], The Taming of the Shrew [Virginia Shakespeare Festival]; Ionesco's The Lesson [Edinburgh Fringe Festival], Lorca's Blood Wedding, Weiss' Marat/Sade as well as many, many others.

Mr. Newmark has been a guest speaker on Shakespeare at conferences and seminars in South Africa, England, Australia and America. He has lectured on both Shakespeare and drama at Rhodes University [South Africa], University of Oxford, Cambridge University, British American Drama Academy [England]; University of Western Australia, Stanford University, OPUS/State University of New York, Williams University, Massachusetts, San Diego State University, San Diego Unified School District [USA], as well as The International Shakespeare Globe Centre [London and Los Angeles].