Hope Clarke

American actress (born 1941)
  • Actress
  • choreographer
  • dancer
  • vocalist
Years active1960–presentAwardsDramalogue Award, Joseph Calloway Award, NAACP Image, Outer Critics Award

Hope Clarke (born March 23, 1941) is an American actress, dancer, vocalist, choreographer, and director. Clarke, a Tony Award nominee, made history in 1995 when she became the first African-American, as well as the first African-American woman, to direct and choreograph a major staging of the classic opera, Porgy and Bess. Clarke began her career as a principal dancer with the Katherine Dunham Company and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and as an actress appeared in many stage, film, and television productions. As a choreographer, Clarke is credited with staging and movement for more than 30 shows on and off Broadway.

Early life and education

A native of Washington, D.C., Clarke took dance classes with her sister at the Alma Davis Dance School, and as a senior in high school, she was a lead dancer with Doris Jones' company in DC.[1][2] Clarke worked as a summer employee for the Central Intelligence [Agency].[2] She grew up in a middle class Black community, a place where people shopped through mail-order catalogues in order to purchase clothes offered in stores where they were not welcomed. “The black community, as I remember it, was very closely knit," Clarke said in the San Francisco Examiner: "Before the fabric of this society was torn by racism and lack of education, we all took care of each other. We all watched each other's children."[3]

Career

West Side Story to Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope

In 1959, Clarke landed a role in the original touring cast of West Side Story.[2] At the urging of her sister, she auditioned for the role, got it, and joined the touring company while it was in Chicago,[1][4][5] and remained in the cast until April 23, 1960.[6] In 1961, Clarke appeared in the interracial love story Kwamina starring Brock Peters and Robert Guillaume, and featuring the choreography of Agnes de Mille.[1][5] In 1967, she played a minor role and was part of the ensemble in Hallelujah, Baby!, which received five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.[1][4][5] In 1968, she played Mamselle Tulip in the House of Flowers at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.[7] In 1969, Clarke had a role in Douglas Turner Ward’s “The Reckoning” at the St. Mark’s Playhouse,[1][4] an off-off Broadway theater that showcased the work of the Negro Ensemble Company.[4][7]

In 1970, Clarke was a dancer in “Purlie,” a musical that nominated for five Tony Awards.[1][4] In 1972, she was in the musical “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope,” which was the first Broadway musical to be directed by an African American woman, Vinnette Carroll.[1][2][5][8]

Alvin Ailey, Katherine Dunham, and 5 Plus

Clarke served as a principal dancer in the Katherine Dunham Company and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.[1][4][9][10][2] In the Ailey company, she toured internationally and received positive reviews and audience ovations.[2][11] In addition to dancing with Dunham and Ailey, Clarke performed with the companies of Tally Beatty,[2][4] George Faison,[4] and Louis Johnson.[1][4]

Clarke, along with Michael Blake, Carmen de Lavallade, Sheila Rohan, and others, co-founded the former 5 Plus Ensemble (New Beginnings Theater), a dance company created to showcase the work of dancers, choreographer, and musicians who are older than the age of 50.[2][12][13]

Film and Television

After appearing on Broadway and around the world as a dancer, Clarke moved to Hollywood, California with the help of actor and friend Raymond St. Jacques.[2] Her most memorable film roles were co-starring with Sidney Poitier in A Piece of the Action (1977);[2] working with St. Jacques and Philip Michael Thomas on the A Book of Numbers' set in Dallas;[2][14][4] and portraying Jean-Michel Basquiat's mother, Matilde, in Basquiat (1996).[2][7] Clarke has had a variety of guest roles on tv shows, such as Hill Street Blues,[2] Amen, Another World, As the World Turns, Beat Street, Hart to Hart, Into the Night, The Jeffersons, The Ropers, Sex and the City, Three's Company.[1] She appeared in the TV miniseries King (1978), which was based upon the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the slain civil rights leader.

Grind, A Tony Nomination, and Fly

In 1985, Clarke played “Ruby” in the musical Grind[4][5][15] and worked with Lester Wilson.[2] In 1992, Clarke earned a Tony Award nomination for “Best Choreography” for her work in the 1992 Broadway hit Jelly's Last Jam.[1][5][16] The show grew from New York workshops and a Los Angeles production at the Mark Taper Forum to a Broadway show.[17]

In 1995, Clarke choreographed “The Tempest.”[4][5] In November 2003, she started work on Caroline, or Change, a musical that features spirituals, blues, Motown, classical music and Jewish Klezmer.[18] Clarke was responsible for the choreography of the show that began as an Off-Broadway production, received a Broadway production of 126 performances in 2004, received six Tony Award nominations, and had a two-month run at the Lyttleton Theatre, National Theatre in London, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical.[18][7][15]

In 2010, Clarke choreographed A Free Man of Color,[5] and in 2017, she choreographed, Fly, a play about the Tuskegee Airmen. The show was produced by the Lincoln Center Institute and toured to several venues, including Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford's Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, and Crossroads Theatre.[2][19][20][21]

Collaborations with George C. Wolfe

After George C. Wolfe hired Clarke to create movement and staging for The Colored Museum,[1][22] the pair have collaborated on 10 plays,[2] including the opera Amistad,[23]the Off-Broadway play, Spunk,[22] and Broadway shows Caroline, Or Change, A Free Man of Color, and Jelly's Last Jam, which earned Clarke a Tony Award nomination.[24][25]

Porgy & Bess: The Opera

In 1995, Clarke directed the Houston Grand Opera production of Porgy & Bess, the first African American to stage a major professional U.S. staging of “Porgy and Bess.[22][9][10] Regarded as America’s greatest opera, the two million dollar Houston Grand production toured throughout the United States, as well as performances in Italy and Japan.[26][9]

In 2012, Clarke directed a Morgan State University production of Porgy & Bess at the Murphy Fine Arts Center.[27][28]

Quotable

  • “I want African Americans who come to see the opera to be proud that an African American is directing the production and to recognize the people on stage.” [9]
  • "Blacks and women have been locked out of directing major productions for too long. It's time for us not only to tell our stories but to direct them."[29]
  • "As a director, I guess I bring in the female sensibilities. Since I'm also an actress, I've really tried to develop the characterizations so that the performers don't do a little singing here, and some acting there. And coming from a black perspective, I know how we think, how we feel, what we do. I understand the little things. That makes a difference."[30]
  • “In my production, everybody works. Everybody has some type of job. Just because you are poor doesn't mean you have to be slovenly or ignorant."[31]

Honors and Awards

  • 2020 -- Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, elected to a three-year term to the Board of Directors. [32]
  • 2018 -- 3rd Annual Project1VOICE HONORS, “to celebrate and honor artists whose talents continue to shape and enrich American culture.”[33]
  • 2015 - 2018 Broadway seasons, Tony Awards Nominating Committee.[34][35]
  • 2009 - 2012 Broadway Seasons, Tony Awards Nominating Committee.[36][37][38]
  • 2004 -- Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Choreographer, Caroline, Or Change
  • 2001-- AUDELCO Recognition Awards for Excellence in Black Theatre (nomination), Choreographer, A Prophet Among Them[39]
  • 1998 -- Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, elected to Board of Directors.[40]
  • 1993 -- Tony Award (nomination), Best Choreography (with Gregory Hines and Ted Levy), Jelly's Last Jam
  • 1993 -- Outer Critics Award, Best Choreography (with Gregory Hines and Ted Levy), Jelly’s Last Jam (with Gregory Hines and Ted Levy)[41]
  • 1992 -- Drama Desk Award (nomination), Outstanding Choreography (with Gregory Hines and Ted Levy), Jelly's Last Jam
  • 1991 -- NAACP Image Award, Best Choreography, Jelly's Last Jam[19]
  • 1988 -- Drama Logue Award, Outstanding Choreography, The Colored Museum[19]

Credits

Stage

Year Title Type Venue Role
2023 A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas Musical, holiday Hartford Stage Choreographer[42]
2019 The In-Gathering Musical New Professional Theatre at the Duke Theater Choreographer[43]
2018 A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas Musical, holiday Hartford Stage Choreographer[44]
2017 FLY Play, drama Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford's Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, Crossroads Theatre Choreographer[19][45]
2016 A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas Musical, holiday Hartford Stage Choreographer[46]
2016 The Roads to Home Play, drama Primary Stages, Cherry Lane Theater Movement consultant[47][19]
2015 Grey Gardens Musical Center Theatre Group, Bay Street Theatre Choreographer[19][48]
2014 A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas Musical, holiday Hartford Stage Choreographer[49]
2013 A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas Musical, holiday Hartford Stage Choreographer[50]
2011 Mr. Abbott Award Gala Benefit In honor of George C. Wolfe, New York Choreographer[51]
2010 – 2011 A Free Man of Color Broadway play, original, drama Vivian Beaumont Theater Choreographer
2010 Agnes deMille: From Ballet to Broadway Revue St. Luke's Theatre Performer[52][53]
2010 Jesus Christ Superstar Gospel Musical Alliance Theatre Choreographer[21]
2008 Resurrection Play Philadelphia Theatre Company, Hartford Stage Choreographer[19][54]
2006 - 2007 Caroline, or Change Musical, tour The Lyttelton, at the National Theatre, London Choreographer[18]
2006 The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove Play, drama Goodman Theater Choreographer[4][55]
2005 The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue Play Hartford Stage Choreographer[19][56]
2004 Caroline, or Change Broadway musical, original, drama Eugene O'Neill Theatre Choreographer
2004 Stormy Weather Musical New York Choreographer[57]
2003 Caroline, or Change Off-Broadway musical, original, drama Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Newman Theater Choreographer[47]
2002 The Odyssey Play Theater at St. Clement's Musical staging[4][21][58]
2000 A Christmas Carol, A Ghost Story of Christmas Musical, holiday Hartford Stage Choreographer[59]
2000 A Prophet Among Them Play with music Blue Heron Arts Center Choreographer[60][39]
1999 Mack and Mabel Musical Barrington Stage Choreographer[61][62]
1999 South Pacific Musical Pioneer Theatre Choreographer[19][63]
1998 Porgy and Bess Ballet Dallas Black Dance Theatre Choreographer[64]
1998 Cabaret Musical Cambridge Theatre Company Choreographer[65]
1997 Armistad Opera Lyric Opera Choreographer[4][66]
1997 Nobody Says Baby Like A Black Man Off-Broadway play American Place Theater Director
1996 A ... My Name is Alice Musical, revue McGinn-Cazale Theater Choreographer[47] [21][67]
1996 One Touch of Venus Musical New York City Center/ Mainstage Choreographer[7][47]
1995 Angel Levine Off-Broadway musical Playhouse 91 Choreographer[47]
1995 The Tempest Off-Broadway Play, comedy, revival Delacorte Theater Choreographer[47]
1995 The Tempest Broadway play, comedy, revival Broadhurst Theatre Choreographer[68]
1993 Sweet & Hot: The Songs of Harold Arlen Musical La Jolla Playhouse (West Coast Premiere) Choreographer[69]
1992 – 1993 Jelly's Last Jam Broadway musical, original Virginia Theatre Choreographer (nominated for a Tony)
1991 Black Eagles Play New York City Center/ Stage II Choreographer[47]
1991 Così fan tutte Opera New York Choreographer[10][70]
1990 Spunk: Three Tales by Zora Neale Hurston Off-Broadway play Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall Choreographer[1][4][47]
1990 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Play Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall Choreographer[47][1]
1988 Porgy & Bess Opera Finnish National Opera and Brazil (Opera Ebony productions) Choreographer[4][71]
1986 The Colored Museum Play Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Susan Stein Shiva Theater Choreographer[47]
1985 Grind Broadway musical, original Mark Hellinger Theatre Ruby / performer
1972 – 1974 Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope Broadway musical, original, revue, all-Black cast Playhouse Theatre, Edison Theatre Performer
1972 Black Visions Off-Broadway play Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Annex Choreographer[47]
1967 – 1968 Hallelujah, Baby! Broadway musical, original Martin Beck Theatre Performer
1960 West Side Story Broadway musical Winter Garden Theatre, Alvin Theatre, and Tour Cities Performer

TV and Film

Year Title Type Role
1969 Change of Mind Film Nancy
2023 LEAP FOR JOY! In Celebration of National Dance Day Short film, musical Self
2023 Rustin Film Lucille Randolph
2019 Finding Julia Film Choreographer[7]
2004 Men Without Jobs Film Ms. Jackson
1996–2002 Law & Order TV Series Multiple episodes: Mrs. Marbury, Appellate Judge #2, Judge Emma Reynolds
2002 Driving Fish Short film Betty
2000 Seventeen Again TV Movie Grandma Catherine “Cat” Donovan
2002 Sex and the City TV Series Lee
1996 New York Undercover TV Series Marilyn Ferris
1996 Basquiat Film Matilde
1988 A Father's Homecoming TV Movie Doctor
1987 Amen TV Series Carol Wilson
1987 Angel Heart Film Voodoo Dancer
1985 Into the Night Film Airport Cop
1984 Beat Street Film Assistant Choreographer[72]
1983 The New Odd Couple TV Series Beth St. Clair
1982 Hill Street Blues TV Series Mrs. Reese
1982 Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal TV Movie Chris
1981 Maggie TV Series Receptionist
1981 Body and Soul Film Choreographer[7]
1980 Scout's Honor TV Movie Mrs. Prewett
1978 The White Shadow TV Series Aunt Edna Hayward
1979 Three's Company TV Series Second Nurse
1979 Hart to Hart TV Series Teacher
1979 Miss Winslow and Son TV Series Cast member
1979 The Ropers TV Series Dr. Young
1979 Jennifer: A Woman's Story TV Movie Annie (secretary)
1976; 1977–1978 What's Happening!! TV Series Multiple episodes: Mrs. Watson, Elizabeth Duncan
1974 Good Times TV Series Brenda Gordon
1978 King TV Mini Series Multiple episodes: Mary
1975 The Jeffersons TV Series Sherry Barnes
1977 A Piece of the Action Film Sarah Thomas
1973 Book of Numbers Film Pigmeat Goins[73]
1971 Going Home Film Mother at prison
1969 Change of Mind Film Nancy
1968 N.Y.P.D. Ivy

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Waters, Sylvia and Hope Clarke interview. Jerome Robbins Dance Division Oral History Project. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. April 20, 24, and 25, 2017. 3 streaming files (approximately approximately 4 hours and 55 minutes) : digital + transcript (232 pages). https://legacycatalog.nypl.org/record=b21682817~S1
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