Kathleen Clark (Kate Clark) is an American playwright whose plays have been produced in New York, Off-Broadway, and in regional and commercial theatres widely throughout the U.S. and Canada. 

Ms. Clark was twice selected to attend the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference with her plays Southern Comforts and Banner.  Banner was produced in NYC and Los Angeles. She was the recipient of a New Jersey Council of the Arts Playwriting Fellowship.

Her play, Awilda, a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference,  had a reading at the Berkshire Theatre Group, directed by Jayne Atkinson. Awilda was a finalist for the 2020 Southwest Theatre Productions competition.  Her comedy, The Way We Dance,  was presented in a reading at the NJ Repertory Theatre and in NYC, directed by Marsha Mason, with original songs by Danny Abosch. Other reading series development work includes Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage & Film, Manhattan Theatre Club and the LA Center Theatre Group.  

As a teaching artist, she has served on the faculty of the MFA Writing for Stage and Screen low residency program at the New Hampshire Institute of Art.  The program involved two residencies per year in Peterborough as well as mentoring writers between residencies. She is currently on the faculty of the MFA Creative Writing low residency program at Fairfield University. 

Ms. Clark  has worked as Assistant to Artistic Director at the Williamstown Theatre Festival,  Literary Manager of Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey,  Script Coordinator at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and as an associate to Jane Harmon in the NYC theatrical producing office of Jane Harmon Associates.