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Kate Clark is an American playwright whose plays have been produced in New York, Off-Broadway, and in regional and commercial theaters widely throughout the US and Canada.

Clark's play Southern Comforts directed by Judith Ivey, starring Penny Fuller and Larry Keith, was produced at Primary Stages in New York City, following productions at the Coconut Grove Playhouse and Parker Playhouse, starring Dixie Carter and Hal Holbrook, as well as a staged reading at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Southern Comforts was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Numerous regional productions of Southern Comforts followed, including TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, the International City Theatre with Michael Learned, the Garry Marshall Theatre with Miss Learned, and the Georgia Ensemble Theatre.

Secrets Of A Soccer Mom, directed by Judith Ivey, was produced off-Broadway and has since been produced throughout the US and Canada. Southern Comforts and Secrets Of A Soccer Mom are both available through Concord Theatricals Publishing.

Ms. Clark's comedy In The Mood was produced on the Fitzgerald Main Stage of the Berkshire Theatre Festival, directed by Marc Bruni, and at the Invisible Theatre in Tucson, directed by Susan Claassen. The Way We Dance, a musical adaptation of In The Mood, was presented in a staged reading at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre and in New York City, directed by Marsha Mason, with original music by Danny Abosch.
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Her play What We May Be was produced on the Fitzpatrick Main Stage at the Berkshire Theatre Group. The cast included Penny Fuller, Dee Hoty, Count Stovall, Carson Elrod, Carla Duren, and Samantha Hill, and was directed by Gregg Edelman. What We May Be, formerly titled Let's Live A Little, was also produced at the Invisible Theatre in Tucson.

Her short play Letter to My Children was selected for the Primary Stages 'Morning in America' presentation at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City. Her short play The March was presented as a special event on the one-year anniversary of the Women's March on Washington at the Invisible Theatre and at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Clark was twice selected to attend the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference with her plays Southern Comforts and Banner.

Banner was produced in New York City and Los Angeles.

Her play Awilda, a semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, had a reading at the Berkshire Theatre Group, directed by Jayne Atkinson. Awilda was a finalist for the 2020 Southwest Theatre Productions competition.

Other reading series development work includes Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage & Film, Manhattan Theatre Club and the LA Center Theatre Group.

As a teaching artist, Clark is currently on the faculty of the Fairfield University MFA Creative Writing low residency program. She previously served on the faculty of the MFA Writing for Stage and Screen low residency program at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.

Ms. Clark has worked as the Assistant to the Artistic Director at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Literary Manager of the Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Script Coordinator at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, and as an associate to Jane Harmon in the New York City theatrical producing office of Jane Harmon Associates.

She was the recipient of a New Jersey Council of the Arts Playwriting Fellowship. She was also the recipient of the Invisible Theater Goldie Klein Guest Artist Award; past recipients include Lynn Redgrave, Ann Hampton Callaway, Steve Ross, Rain Pryor, Norma Jean Darden, & Amanda McBroom.