Rebecca Haley Clark is a theatre director and practitioner who has worked in New York, Brazil, and Scotland. She received her M.F.A from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2024 and completed the Masters of Classical and Contemporary Text directing course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2019. She received her undergraduate degree in Drama and Comparative Ethnic Studies at Columbia University and a Fulbright research grant to study Shakespeare and race studies in Rio de Janeiro. She was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California and is excited to be in her hometown as the Director of Education with Santa Cruz Shakespeare.