Patch Clark

Patch Clark
Professor, Theatre
Head of Theatre for Youth program/Theatre Education Coordinator
clarkp@ecu.edu
252-328-1196
202 Messick Theatre Arts Center
Mail Stop 553
East Carolina University

Patricia “Patch” Clark is the coordinator of the Theatre for Youth and Theatre Education programs. She is the founder and Director of the ECU Storybook Theatre, which tours to schools, libraries and festivals and appears as part of ECU’s Arts Smart and Family Fare Series. She has directed many children’s theatre productions including Willy Wonka, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, James and the Giant Peach, Seussical the Musical, The Stinky Cheese Man, Charlotte’s Web, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Jungle Book, and The Secret Garden and written and directed original works including Tales From Around the World, My Hero Reaching for the Stars, The Runaway Bear, All Aboard America! and All Aboard South America! Most recently she has directed Treasure Island, The Little Prince, A Christmas Carol, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Hobbit, and School House Rock Live! She has worked as both teacher and consultant for public and private schools and the Virginia Governor’s School for the Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Richmond. During the summer of 2012, she traveled to the Kurdistan region of Iraq with the YES Academy to work with children in theatre.

She has acted in a number of productions including such roles as Bianca and Scrooge’s Niece in Othello and A Christmas Carol, respectively, for the American Revels Company. She has appeared in numerous ECU/Loessin Playhouse and ECU/Loessin Summer Theatre productions including My Fair Lady, Inherit the Wind, A Doll’s House, Misalliance, Our Town, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma, A View from the Bridge, Crazy for You, Grease, Footloose, Yerma, Grapes of Wrath and the Crucible. She directed the Off-Broadway premiere production of Katmandu at the John Houseman Studio Theatre. She is the author of Intergenerational Arts in the Nursing Home (Greenwood Press) and co-author of Seniors on Stage (Praeger Press.)

Clark received the Distinguished Professor for Teaching Award presented by the UNC Board of Governors in 2013-2014, the Scholar-Teacher Award in 2012-2013 and the ECU Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2011-2012.

Education:

Courses: Theatre for Youth, Theatre Education