Harold Ellis Clark

Harold Ellis Clark has won playwriting awards from Playhouse on the Square (Memphis, TN) for We Live Here (2013) and UpStage Theatre (Baton Rouge, LA) for Fishers of Men (2013). He has been named one of two finalists for the Stanley Drama Award an unprecedented three times for Tour Detour (2013), Uncle Bobby ’63 (2015), and Madame Thames’ Spirit Bar (2016), named a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference in 2013 (Tour Detour), 2014 (We Live Here), and 2015 (Uncle Bobby ’63), and he traveled to Durban, South Africa for the South African premiere of We Live Here (2017). American Blues Theater (Chicago, IL) named Harold a featured finalist for the 2018 Blue Ink Playwriting Award for his play, Run No More, and produced a staged reading of the drama. Additionally, the North Carolina Black Repertory Company (Winston Salem, NC) produced a staged reading of Run No More (February 2019). As a 2018-19 member of Southern Rep Theatre's 4D New Play Development Program (New Orleans), Harold penned Indoctrination, for which he was named one of ten finalists for the 2019 Todd McNerney Playwriting Award. A staged reading of Run No More, previously scheduled for April 17, 2020 at IATI Theater (New York, NY) as part of Cimientos 2020, occurred June 14, 2020 via Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic.