Mary Kay Clark has been a director and playwright for 30 years starting at Novi Theatres (Michigan). There she founded the “little people players,” an acting group designed for 8-11 year olds and directed youth ages 8-18. She moved to southern Ohio where she directed, taught acting and makeup classes, and playwriting classes with Yellow Springs Kids Playhouse. Mary Kay moved back to her hometown of Garrett 10 years ago and worked at Country Meadow Elementary where she built a theater program teaching students to be onstage as well as how to run the lights and sound and work the backstage. Some of her favorite scripts she has written and produced are Fractured Fairy Tales, a story of how a boy and a fairy rewrite fairy tales taking out the kissing, Sleeping Beauty Unplugged, where the past collides with the present and technology, and Beauty and the Beast Revisited, a fun parody of the original. Although she loves writing and directing, she is also familiar with performing having played roles such as Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn in Music Man, Abby Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace and the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz. Currently Mary Kay directs and writes for Excelsior Arts Academy and Youth Theater in Auburn.
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