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

lighting designer In theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a ...

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

Biography

Peggy Clark graduated from

Smith College Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith and opened in 1875. It is the largest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite women's c ...

with a B.A. in dramatic arts, and attended the Yale School of Fine Arts 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", author ...

'' (1960), and plays, such as '' The Trip to Bountiful'' (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 pl ...

'' (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