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Clark Bowlen
241 South Water Street Unit 3
East Windsor CT 06088
(203) 623-6587--home
(203) 512-2685--work
cbowlen@snet.net

Theatre Program Director, Professor (tenured), Manchester Community College, Manchester CT, 1987--present.

EDUCATION

MFA in Theatre with double concentration in directing and scenic design (four years of graduate study), University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Amherst MA, 1986.

BA, English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, 1963

DESIGNS AT MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
(set and light design unless otherwise noted)

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living In Paris, by Jacques Brel, Eric Blau and Mort Shuman
She Stoops To Conquer, by Oliver Goldsmith
Sides, A Piece About the Troubles by Robert Lehan (world premiere)
Came So Far for Beauty, The Music of Leonard Cohen (world premiere)
Who by Fire (world premiere, based on novel Nam by Mark Baker)
The Man Who Knew Trotsky, by Steve Starger (world premiere)
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett (also directed)
Fool for Love, by Sam Shepard (also directed)
A Midsummer Night's Dream, by William Shakespeare (Set)
Buried Child, by Sam Shepard
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
The Debutante Ball, by Beth Henley
Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill

DESIGNS AT UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS/AMHERST

Lesser Pleasures: A Secret Opera, an original musical by
Virginia Scott (Art Director)
Crimes of the Heart, By Beth Henley (Set)
Sore Throats, by Howard Brenton (Set)
The Runner Stumbles, by Milan Stitt (Lights)

OTHER DESIGNS

Tantullus, Company One (AEA), Hartford CT. (Set)
Rose Tattoo, Biloxi Blues, Chapter Two, The Odd Couple,
The Producing Guild, Hartford CT. (Set)
They're Playing Our Song, Cabaret, Zeiterion Theater, New Bedford, MA. (Set)
Amahl and the Night Visitors, Connecticut Opera,
Bushnell Auditorium, Hartford, CT (Lights)
Night Watch, Ravenscroft, Cliffhanger, You Can't Take It With You, Greetings, The Rainmaker, Anne Get Your Gun
Repertory Theatre of New Britain (Set)
Crimes of The Heart Mark Twain Masquers (Set)

AWARDS

Faculty Scene Design Award, American College Theatre Festival--Region One:
1991 Buried Child (John Ezell, Adj.)
1990 The Glass Menagerie (Ming Cho Lee, Adj.)
Attended American College Theatre Festival Faculty Symposium (Design) at 1993 Festival in Washington DC on a scholarship

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

Board of Directors, Company One ( AEA), Hartford CT, 1990-1995.
(Vice-President '93-'95)
Founding member, Shakespeare Hartford, Hartford CT, 1991-92.
Member Theatre Communications Group, United States Institute for Technical Theatre, New England Theatre Conference

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