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Rebecca Haley Clark
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, M.F.A., Classical and Contemporary Text - Directing
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
· • (Upcoming) Master Harold…and the Boys - Athol Fugard - Santa Cruz Shakespeare - Santa Cruz, CA
• Emilia - 2024 - By Morgan Lloyd Malcolm - The Western Stage - Salinas, CA
• Proof - 2024 - By David Auburn - Santa Cruz Shakespeare - Santa Cruz, CA
• As You Like It - 2024 - Santa Cruz Shakespeare - Asst. Dir. Carey Perloff - Santa Cruz, CA
• The Mountaintop - 2024 - By Katori Hall - The Western Stage - Salinas, CA
• Best of the Rest (2024) - Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre - Santa Cruz, CA
• Exit, Pursued by a Bear – 2023 – Lauren Gunderson – Santa Cruz Shakespeare – Santa Cruz, CA
• King Lear - 2023 - Santa Cruz Shakespeare - Asst. Dir. Paul Mullins - Santa Cruz, CA
• Best of the Rest (2023) - Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre - Santa Cruz, CA
• Honest ‘Abe’ Mazulu – 8 Tens @ 8 – 2023 – Stephen Cooper – Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre – Santa Cruz, CA
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
• Emilia - 2024 - By Morgan Lloyd Malcon - The Western Stage - Salinas, CA·
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
Director of Education - 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.
Adjunct Lecturer, Hartnell College/The Western Stage - Salinas, CA
Lecturer, San Jose State University – San Jose, CA
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