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Rebecca Haley Clark

 EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 

  • Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, M.A., Classical and Contemporary Text – Directing

  • Columbia University – Columbia College, B.A., Drama & Theatre Arts, Concentration: Comparative Ethnic Studies

DIRECTING CREDITS

·  Just Deserts – 2022 – By Carol Lashof - Santa Cruz Shakespeare – Santa Cruz, CA

·  King John – 2022 – Santa Cruz Shakespeare – Assistant Dir. Charles Pasternak – Santa Cruz, CA

·  Three Chords and the Truth - 2021 - By Lynn Aylward - Edinburgh Festival Fringe - Edinburgh, Scotland

·  Troilus & Cressida - 2021 - Santa Cruz Shakespeare - Assistant Dir. Susan Dalian - Santa Cruz, CA

·  Hindsight 2020 - 2021 - Devised by the Cast - Those Women Productions - Berkeley, CA

·  Sundown Town - 2020 - By Marcus Scott - Abingdon Theatre - New York, NY

· God Sized Hole - 2019 - By Tara Louise Bruno - Etcetera Theatre - London, England      

·  The Aliens – 2019 – Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – Director – Glasgow, Scotland

·       As You Like It – 2019 – Bard in the Botanics – Assistant Dir. Gordon Barr – Glasgow, Scotland

·       Cycle-Logical – 2019 – Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Bridge Week/Tron Theatre Outside Eyes – Director/Concept/Deviser - Glasgow, Scotland

·       Suffering from Scottishness – 2019 – Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Assistant Dir. Cat Hepburn and Drew Taylor-Wilson - Edinburgh, Scotland.

·       Sunday in the Park With George – 2019 – Royal Conservatoire of Scotland – Assistant Dir. Dougie Irvine - Glasgow, Scotland

·       A scene from The Roaring Girl – 2019 – Shakespeare’s Globe/Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - London, England

·       Shakespeare é Brasileiro (Shakespeare is Brazilian) – 2016 – Os Ciclomáticos – Director/Concept/Deviser/Producer – Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

·       Hamlet/Ghosts (Third Iteration) –  2015 – HERE Arts Center/The Brewing Department/Rochester Fringe Festival - Assistant Director/Deviser – Cody Holliday Haefner - New York, NY

·       The Baldwin Project (Reading) – 2015 – The Brewing Department – Director – New York, NY

·       Hamlet/Ghosts (Second Iteration) – 2014 – The Brewing Department/Dixon Place – Assistant Director/Deviser - Cody Holliday Haefner - New York, NY

·       The Baldwin Project – 2014 – Aroma Theatre Collaborative Workshop – Director/Deviser – New York, NY

·       Tales of the Perpetually Single But Eternally Optimistic – 2014 – Theater for the New City’s DreamUp Festival - Assistant Dir. Uzunma Udeh – New York, NY

·       Your Kind –  2014 – SWAN Day – Director – Boston, MA

·       The Fall – 2013 – Theater That Transcends - Assistant Dir. Simón Hanukai  – New York, NY

·       The Owl Answers – 2013 – Barnard Theatre Department – Directing Thesis - New York, NY

·       Funnyhouse of a Negro – 2012 – Black Theatre Ensemble – Columbia University – Director - New York, NY

 

PLAYWRITING CREDITS

·       Cycle-Logical – 2019 – Bridge Week, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

·       The Baldwin Project (Reading) – 2015 – The Brewing Department

 

ACTING CREDITS

·  As You Like It – 2019 – Shakespeare’s Globe/Royal Conseravatoire of Scotland – Dennis – Dir. Nick Hutchison

·       The Baldwin Project (Reading) – 2015 – The Brewing Department – Cory – Dir. Rebecca Haley Clark

·       Hamlet/Ghosts (Second Iteration) – 2014 – The Brewing Department/Dixon Place – Deviser/Actor – Dir. Cody Holliday Haefner

·       Hamlet/Ghosts – 2014 –  The Brewing Department – Deviser/Actor – Dir. Cody Holliday Haefner

·       Virgins Like Drake Too – 2014 – Midwinter Madness Short Play Festival – Paula – Dir. Chris Silverberg

·       Romeo and Juliet – 2012 – King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe – Tybalt – Dir. Liz Power

·       A Bright Room Called Day – 2012 – Columbia University Players – Annabella Gotchling – Dir. Corinna Munn

·       Fucking “A” – 2011 –  Black Theatre Ensemble – Freedom Fund Lady, Hunter #3, Muse, Waiting Woman #2

·       Reconnecting by Jacob Marx Rice – 2011 – Latenite Theatre – Lawyer

·       A Family Affair by Olivia Jackson – 2011 – Black Theatre Ensemble – Yvette

·       The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail – 2011 – Columbia University Players – Williams - Dir. Cody Holliday

·       The Colored Museum – 2011 – Black Theatre Ensemble – Ms. Pat, Mama – Dir. Constance Castillo, Jonathan Dunn, and Diane Jean-Mary

·       St. Joan of the Stockyards – 2010 – Barnard College Theatre Department – Glump, Meatpacker, Worker – Dir. Sharon Fogarty

·       Tartuffe – 2009 – Barnard College Theatre Department – Officer – Dir. Will MacAdams

 

PRODUCTION CREDITS

·       Cahoot’s Macbeth – 2011 – Barnard College Theatre Department – Stage Manager

 

ACHIEVEMENTS

·  2015 – 2016 Fulbright Study and Research Grantee in Theater Arts

·  Panelist for La MaMa Coffeehouse Chronicles about the life and work of playwright, Adrienne Kennedy

·  Mentee with Theatre That Transcends Generation 2 Generation Mentorship Program

·  Co-founder of the Aroma Theatre Collaborative

WORK EXPERIENCE

Education Programs Manager - Santa Cruz Shakespeare - Santa Cruz, CA:

Oversees all of Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s education and outreach programming, and currently developing curriculum for new Shakespeare and Social Justice in-schools program.

Fulbright U.S. Student Program Study and Research Grantee - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:                                                  

Conducted independent research on Shakespeare and race relations in Brazil

by directing and producing two devised theatre productions for Black Awareness Day.

 

LANGUAGES

Fluency in Brazilian Portuguese

Proficiency in Spanish

Proficiency in Italian

Beginning French