Kate Clarke, Performer, TGP Academic Coordinator, Asst. Professor of Theatre at Juniata College

Kathleen Lisa Clarke is in full-time residence as the Asst. Professor of Theatre and TGP Academic coordinator.  She moved to her current position from New York, where she was a   singer, actress and teacher. A graduate of Oberlin College (BA), and The University of Washington (MFA), she has been seen on both small and regional stages in New York, Seattle, Edinburgh, Denver, San Francisco, Cleveland, Jacksonville, New Orleans and Moscow, ID. TV credits for Kathleen include Northern Exposure, Medicine Ball, Third Watch, and Hope and Faith. Film credits include Crocodile Tears, Angel Street, Music and Lyrics, and My Sassy Girl. Kate has taught acting, movement and voice at Oberlin Theater Institute, the University of Washington, Tulane University, CUNY Hunter College and Juniata College. She is a member of the professional ensemble at The Gravity Project-a theater company based in Huntingdon, PA. In New York she has worked with the SITI Company, SOHO Rep, 78th Street Theater Lab and NADA, and has been a collaborator at BMI, a laboratory for new work in musical theater.

With the Gravity Project, Kate appeared as Donna Matilda in an adaptation of Pirandello's enrico4, as the Mouth in Beckett's Not I , Widow Daventry and Ensemble in Crispin: The Cross of Lead, and Anna in Return.  Most recently, she directed Pippin and Angels In America: Millennium Approaches at Juniata College, where she now teaches full time.