Clark, Lou

Lou Clark is an award winning theater artist and applied performance practitioner. Her plays have been produced as readings, workshops, and full productions in Albuquerque, Austin, Boulder, Denver, New York City, Phoenix, Seattle, and Washington DC. She writes for adults and youth often with a lens relevant for 2SLGBTQIA+ community members. Representative plays for adults include: The Politics of Hair, Godawful Dress, Out on the Road, and A Good Death. Representative plays for Young Audiences include: Wonderdog!, Cinderella and The Beanstalk, and I Sea-directed by Clareann Despain, which won the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival National Playwriting for Youth Award. Clark has also directed numerous readings, workshops, and full productions of original scripts including In the Name of Things We Need by Alice Stanley for the MFA new play reading festival at Arizona State University; Body Burden by Dale Dunn at New Mexico’s Adobe Theatre; Germs & Viruses by playwright Kirt Shineman for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, (regional); and for Albuquerque’s Fusion Theatre Company’s 10-minute play festival. She also directed the New Mexico Premiere of I Am My Own Wife for Albuquerque’s Vortex Theatre. Applied artist work includes developing original performance pieces with native youth as part of Santa Fe Opera educational programming, with people with disabilities at VSA Arts of New Mexico, and with Rising Youth Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona. Additionally, she has worked in healthcare simulation education for 20 years translating her artistic skills to teach and support healthcare learners to grow their clinical communication skills. Training includes an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of New Mexico, Yale Summer Writer’s Program (i.e., juried, memoir/non-fiction), the Professional Arts Training Program-Artistic Internship, (i.e., casting/literary) with Seattle Rep Theatre supervised by former Artistic Director Jerry Manning, and the summer program, (i.e., actor) with London’s Royal Court Theatre.