Lou Clark is a playwright, director, educator, producer and Native New Englander who now calls New Mexico home. Clark is the author of more than 10 plays that have been produced as readings, workshops and full productions in Colorado, New Mexico, New York City, Seattle and Washington, DC. Her works for young audiences include Wonderdog and I Sea, winner of the 2006 National Theater for Youth Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center.

Representative plays for adults include: The Politics of Hair, Godawful Dress, Out On The Road, Searching for Calliopeia, Run Between the Raindrops and Freewriting.

Recent directing credits include: A staged reading of Grand Delusions by Ross Maxwell at the Kennedy Center, the world premiere production of Body Burden by Dale Dunn at the Adboe Theater in Albuquerque, Searching for Calliopeia in the Words Afire New Play Festival at the Unversity of New Mexico (this production earned Ms. Clark a Regional Directing Award from the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers and an Honorable Mention for the 2007 National Student Director Award from the Kennedy Center), and the New Mexico premiere of I Am My Own Wife at the Vortex Theatre.

She has taught playwriting to adults with developmental disabilities at VSA Arts of New Mexico, to at-risk youth at Acoma Pueblo, and to graduate and undergraduate students at the University of New Mexico, from which she earned her M.F.A. with distinction in Dramatic Writing. As a graduate student she studied Playwriting for Young Audiences with Susan Pearson. Clark has also studied playwriting at London’s Royal Court Theatre and at the Kennedy Center. Professional training includes the completion of a season-long Artistic Internship at Seattle Repertory Theatre, supervised by Acting Artistic Director Jerry Manning, during which she assisted playwrights, including Pulitzer & Tony Award Winner August Wilson and acclaimed solo performer Sandra Tsing-Loh. She also completed an Artistic Internship with the Bonderman Conference at Indiana Repertory Theater assisting playwright Deni Krueger and Robyn Flatt, Artistic Director of the The Dallas Children’s Theater.

2009 saw her first work with the Pollyanna Theatre Company, WONDERDOG, produced by at the Long Performing Arts Center in Austin, as well as a world premiere adaptation of Lysistrata at Albuquerque Little Theater and a staged reading of a collaborative adaptation of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman feminist utopian novella, Herland, at Seattle Repertory Theatre, produced by the Northwest Playwright’s Alliance. Clark is the Artistic Director of SOLARITY, a new professional multi-ability theatre company comprised of members with and without disabilities at VSA N4th Art Center in Albuquerque. She is also Co-Artistic Director of Ka-HOOTZ, an Albuquerque-based theater company devoted to the development of new works and serious theater that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Clark is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

You can visit Lou’s Ka-HOOTZ page here.