Joy Clark
Affiliated Faculty, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Joy Clark is a New York- and Boston-based union musical theatre performer, collaborator and educator. She studied under Tony nominee Maureen Brennan, and was chosen to workshop with Broadway songwriting team Richard Maltby and David Shire on their own material from the musical Baby.
As a performer, Clark’s career has spanned theaters from the East Coast to the West, her work ranging from the comedic to the dramatic; from Shakespeare to musicals, being described as a “chameleon” in the industry.
Clark currently teaches musical theatre dance at Emerson College and Berklee College of Music, as well as teaching master classes from coast to coast. She and her partner, Ryan Mardesich, privately coach song and monologue interpretation, and give lectures on audition technique and theater as a business.
As a choreographer, Clark choreographs for professional and youth theatres alike. Recent productions include Fiddler on the Roof, for which Joy restaged Jerome Robbins’ original Broadway choreography. Joy’s choreography for professional productions of Seussical and Stuart Little were seen by hundreds of families at the Boston Children’s Museum, and Wheelock Family Theater.
Courses
- Mus Th Dance: Prof Prep I
- Mus Th Dance: Prof Prep II
- Directed Study