Hope Clarke (Director/Choreographer)
Washington, D.C.

Highlights: Tony Award and Drama Desk nominations for best choreography in Jelly’s Last Jam (1992) and recipient of the Dramalogue Award, the Joseph Calloway Award and the NAACP Image Award for the same piece; director/choreographer for Porgy & Bess (originated at Houston Grand Opera, co-produced at The Dallas Opera and other notable companies); choreographer for numerous works, most recently, Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change (2004, New York Shakespeare Festival and on Broadway) and The Odyssey (Willow Cabin Theatre); directed Porgy & Bess, Così fan tutte, The Medium and The Telephone and (Opera Ebony, NYC); Frida (American Musical Theater); directed and choreographed The Gathering (New Professional Theater); Hallelujah Baby (York Theater) and an all-dance version of Porgy & Bess, using the music of Miles Davis and Dick Hyman, for Dallas Black Dance Theatre; collaborated with writer/director George C. Wolf creating dance and staging for works including Spunk, The Colored Museum and The Caucasian Chalk Circle; principal dancer for the Katherine Dunham Company and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; as an actress Ms. Clarke has appeared in numerous television roles, “A Piece of the Action,” starring Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier and “A Book of Numbers” with Philip Michael Thomas and Raymond St. Jacques; stage credits include leading roles in Don’t Bother Me I Can’t Cope, Grind, Purlie and Hallelujah Baby.