Peggy Clark
Margaret Brownson Clark (1915 – June 19, 1996) was a
lighting designer, costume designer, and set designer. She designed lighting for dance and opera, but she "is best known for her work on [stage] musicals".[1]
Biography
Peggy Clark graduated from
Raoul Pene du Bois, as well as Oliver Smith
. Smith gave her the opportunity to work on her own as a lighting designer on Beggar's Holiday (1946). She had started as a scenic designer in 1941 with the play Gabrielle.
She worked on some 78
Bye Bye Birdie (1960), revues, such as Along Fifth Avenue (1949), starring Nancy Walker and Jackie Gleason. which ran for 180 performances on Broadway, and plays, such as The Trip to Bountiful (1953), Goodbye Charlie (1959), and The Rose Tattoo (1966).[3]
Her papers are in the Clark Collection at the Library of Congress.[2]
She died on June 19, 1996.[4]
References
- ISBN 0-521-66959-6, p. 519
- ^ a b Zvonchenko, Walter. "Peggy Clark, Lighting Up the Stage" loc.gov, accessed April 9, 2012
- ^ "Peggy Clark" Internet Broadway Database listing, accessed April 9, 2012
- ^ Smith, Dinita. Peggy Clark, Pioneer Designer Of Stage Lighting, Dies at 80" The New York Times (abstract), June 22, 1996
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- Peggy Clark at the Internet Broadway Database
- A brief history of stage lighting by Larry Wild at Northern State University
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