Brian Clark (playwright)
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Brian Burgess Clark is a full-time playwright and playwright teacher. He is director of the Perry-Mansfield School of Arts theater program in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He was the bicentennial playwright for Worthington, Ohio in the summer of 2003.[1]
Playwright career[edit]
Early career[edit]
Clark was engrossed in theater since high school as a student in Worthington, Ohio. He acted throughout high school, and in 12th grade he wrote his own play, No More Green Beans, a children's musical. Joel Haney, the school's choral music teacher assisted with the music and enlisted the school's drama teacher, Bronwynn Hopton to produce the play.
Later career[edit]
Clark graduated from the University of Hawaii. Bronwyn Hopton recruited him to write the Worthington, Ohio, bicentennial play for the summer of 2003. In 2001 and 2002, he wrote The Scioto Company, named after the company started by James Kilbourne and the 99 founding settlers of Worthington, Ohio. He studied many historical documents and centered the play on Kilbourne's family life.
Awards and nominations[edit]
- Clark won the 1996 William Inge Theater Festival "New Voice in American Theatre Award".
- The Touch won the 1999 Vermont Playwrights Award and the 1999 National Association of Speech and Dramatic Arts "Best Play" Award.
- Purple Hearts won the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for Playwrighting and a Special Services Achievement Award from the United States Army.
- (Pets), Part of the Family nominated for a 2000 Emmy.
- Ivory Alphabet won the 2000 Julie Harris Award.
References[edit]
- ↑ Worthington Bicentennial. The Sciotto Company Drama Playwright Bio Archived July 19, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
External links[edit]
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