Sally Clark (born 26 July 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker.

Career

After moving to Toronto in 1973, Sally Clark served as playwright/dramaturge for Theatre Passe Muraille, the Shaw Festival, Nakai Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Nightwood Theatre.

Sally Clark (playwright)

Her plays have received two Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations and a Governor General's Award nomination for The Trial of Judith K. In 1990 she won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award for her play, Moo (1988).

Sally Clark (playwright)

Clark has also written and directed for film. Her film, Ten Ways to Abuse an Old Woman (1983), won the Special Prix du Jury at the Henri Langlois International Short Film Festival in France and another of her films, The Art of Conversation won the Bronze Award for Best Dramatic Short at the Worldfest Charleston Festival in 1993 and has been screened at several other film festivals around the world.

Sally Clark (playwright)

Other Works include: Jehanne of the Witches (1989) Life Without Instruction (1991) Lost Souls and Missing Persons (1984) Saint Frances of Hollywood (1996) Trial of a Ladies Man (1987) Wanted WASPS (1996)

References

Sally Clark, Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia

Sally Clark, The Playwrights Database

Playwrights Canada Press

External links

Sally Clark, Talon Books

Playwrights Guild

Origins Theatre Projects

Sally Clark entry in the Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada

1953 births

Living people

Canadian women dramatists and playwrights

20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights

20th-century Canadian women writers

Canadian Film Centre alumni