is an actress, dancer, vocalist, choreographer, and director. Broadway: Jelly’s Last Jam (Tony nomination best choreography), The Tempest, Caroline or Change, and A Free Man of Color. Regional: A Christmas Carol (Hartford Stage, Ailey Theatre), Fly (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, Crossroads Theatre), The Roads to Home (Primary Stages), Grey Gardens (Center Theatre Group, Bay Street Theatre), Resurrection (Philadelphia Theatre, Hartford Stage), The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove (Goodman Theatre), South Pacific (Pioneer Theatre), The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue (Hartford Stage). Clarke began her career as a dancer and performed on Broadway in West Side Story, Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, and Grind, among others. She was the first African-American and first African-American woman to direct and choreograph a major staging of Porgy and Bess (for the Houston Grand Opera).
