Margaret Brownson Clark (1915June 19, 1996) was a

lighting designer In theatre, a lighting designer (or LD) works with the director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer, and sound designer to create the lighting, atmosphere, and time of day for the production in response to the text while keeping ...

, costume designer, and set designer. She designed lighting for dance and opera, but she "is best known for her work on

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musicals".

Biography

Peggy Clark graduated from

Smith College Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...

with a B.A. in dramatic arts, and attended the

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with a major in scenic design and lighting.Zvonchenko, Walter
"Peggy Clark, Lighting Up the Stage"
loc.gov, accessed April 9, 2012 She served as an assistant to many set designers, including John Koenig, Stewart Cheney,

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, Howard Bay, Nat Karson and 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

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productions, as a lighting designer and also occasionally as a set designer. She designed the lighting for musicals, such as '' Bells Are Ringing'' (1956) and ''

Bye Bye Birdie ''Bye Bye Birdie'' is a stage musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, based upon a book by Michael Stewart. Originally titled ''Let's Go Steady'', ''Bye Bye Birdie'' is set in 1958. The short story "Dream Man", authored ...

'' (1960), and plays, such as ''

The Trip to Bountiful ''The Trip to Bountiful'' is a 1985 American drama film directed by Peter Masterson and starring Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford and Rebecca De Mornay. It was adapted by Horton Foote from his 1953 play of the same ...

'' (1953), ''

Goodbye Charlie ''Goodbye Charlie'' is a 1964 American comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Tony Curtis, Debbie Reynolds and Pat Boone. The film is about a callous womanizer who gets his just reward. It was adapted from George Axelrod's 1959 p ...

'' (1959), and ''

The Rose Tattoo ''The Rose Tattoo'' is a three-act play written by Tennessee Williams in 1949 and 1950; after its Chicago premiere on December 29, 1950, he made further revisions to the play for its Broadway premiere on February 2, 1951, and its publication by ...

'' (1966)."Peggy Clark"
Internet Broadway Database listing, accessed April 9, 2012 Her papers are in the Clark Collection at the

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. She died on June 19, 1996.Smith, Dinita
Peggy Clark, Pioneer Designer Of Stage Lighting, Dies at 80"
''The New York Times'' (abstract), June 22, 1996

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, Peggy American lighting designers 1915 births 1996 deaths Smith College alumni Yale School of Art alumni