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Martha Clarke

Director, A Midsummer Night's Dream. A founding member of Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Crowsnest, Martha Clarke has choreographed for the Nederlans Dans Theater, the Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, and Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, among many others. As a director Ms. Clarke's many original productions include The Garden of Earthly Delights, Vienna: Lusthaus, Miracolo d'amore, Endangered Species, An Uncertain Hour, The Hunger Artist, and Vers la flamme. She directed the premiere of Christopher Hampton's Alice's Adventures Underground at the Royal National Theatre in London. In opera Ms. Clarke has directed The Magic Flute for the Glimmerglass Opera and the Canadian Opera Company, Così fan tutte for Glimmerglass, Tan Dun's Marco Polo for the Munich Biennale, the Hong-Kong Festival, and the New York City Opera, and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice for the English National Opera and the New York City Opera. She is currently developing a music-theater piece about Toulouse-Lautrec and a new work based on Pirandello's short stories. Ms. Clarke is the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" award and grants from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations, and she teaches at the Julliard School.

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