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Eliza Clark (actor)
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Eliza Clark is an American actress and playwright. She is the sister of Spencer Treat Clark
. She (unlike her brother who took more major parts) has acted in minor parts in movies and commercials and in 1990 she briefly played Jessica Buchanan
on the soap opera
One Life to Live
.
Clark has also directed many productions at Yale University since September 2003, including Wendy Wasserstein
's Uncommon Women and Others
, Rebecca Gilman
's The Glory of Living
and Wendy MacLeod
's House of Yes
.
She is also a playwright; her play, The Metaphysics of Breakfast, appeared in the 2005 New York Fringe Festival. She is a member of Youngblood at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, which is a collective of professional playwrights. She writes for and performs in the web sitcom, Inconvenient Molly.
At Yale University
, she was a member of the improvisational comedy group Viola Question, and the sketch comedy group The Fifth Humour.
Her plays have appeared at Provincetown Playhouse, and in the Yale Playwrights Festival at the Yale Repertory Theater, for three years in a row: "The Metaphysics of Breakfast" (2005), "Hiccup" (2006), and "Puppy." Her most recent play, "Edgewise" performed at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City in August 2008. She is the recipient of the 2010 P73 playwriting fellowship from Page 73 Productions.
In 2010 she was on the writing staff of the short-lived but critically acclaimed AMC series "Rubicon."
Spencer Treat Clark
Spencer Treat Clark is an American actor who has appeared in several films, including Gladiator, Mystic River, and Unbreakable.-Life and career:...
. She (unlike her brother who took more major parts) has acted in minor parts in movies and commercials and in 1990 she briefly played Jessica Buchanan
Jessica Buchanan
Jessica Eugenia Buchanan is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live...
on the soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
One Life to Live
One Life to Live
One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
.
Clark has also directed many productions at Yale University since September 2003, including Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein was an American playwright and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University...
's Uncommon Women and Others
Uncommon Women and Others
Uncommon Women and Others , is the first play by noted 20th century American playwright Wendy Wasserstein.-1977 Off-Broadway debut:...
, Rebecca Gilman
Rebecca Gilman
Rebecca Gilman is an American playwright. She attended Middlebury College, graduated from Birmingham-Southern College, and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa...
's The Glory of Living
The Glory of Living
The Glory of Living is a 1998 play by Rebecca Gilman. The play received its first production at the Circle Theater in Forest Park, Illinois. The play has won many awards and was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.-Plot:...
and Wendy MacLeod
Wendy MacLeod
Wendy MacLeod is an American playwright.MacLeod received a BA from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where she now teaches and is a playwright-in-residence. She received a MFA from the Yale School of Drama....
's House of Yes
The House of Yes
The House of Yes is a 1997 film starring Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Geneviève Bujold, Freddie Prinze, Jr. and Tori Spelling. The movie is based on the play of the same name, which was written by Wendy MacLeod. It was produced by Robert Berger and was released by Miramax Films on October 10,...
.
She is also a playwright; her play, The Metaphysics of Breakfast, appeared in the 2005 New York Fringe Festival. She is a member of Youngblood at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, which is a collective of professional playwrights. She writes for and performs in the web sitcom, Inconvenient Molly.
At Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, she was a member of the improvisational comedy group Viola Question, and the sketch comedy group The Fifth Humour.
Her plays have appeared at Provincetown Playhouse, and in the Yale Playwrights Festival at the Yale Repertory Theater, for three years in a row: "The Metaphysics of Breakfast" (2005), "Hiccup" (2006), and "Puppy." Her most recent play, "Edgewise" performed at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City in August 2008. She is the recipient of the 2010 P73 playwriting fellowship from Page 73 Productions.
In 2010 she was on the writing staff of the short-lived but critically acclaimed AMC series "Rubicon."
External links
- Eliza Clark on Twitter.com