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In September Clara will appear as Mercutio in Shakespeare’s timeless tale of first love pitted against a deadly family rivalry, Romeo and Juliet, produced by Holla Holla Productions.
Jason Specland will direct. Romeo and Juliet will perform at Clinton Cove Park (W. 55th & the Hudson River) the first three weekends in September, with shows at 3pm and 7pm.
This fall Clara will be directing her own adaptation of A Christmas Carol again at The Center for the Performing Arts at DeBaun Auditorium in Hoboken, New Jersey. She will also be directing "Patrick and Lisa's Wedding," DeBaun's entry for the Hudson County One-Act Festival in September.
In July and August, Clara appeared as Princess Lana in Duncan Pflaster's play Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants, as part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival. Prince Trevor received rave reviews and was also featured on BroadwayWorld.com.
Last month, Clara appeared in a reading of Mickey Zetts's new musical Insecurity!, playing the role of Tatianna Corleonovich. Mickey Zetts wrote and composed the award-winning Apathy, which was part of the 2005 Midtown International Theatre Festival.
Last month, Clara also directed Maurice Martin's one-act play "Pi Yao and the Farmers' Daughters" for the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival. In 2002 Maurice's play "Three Questions," also directed by Clara, went on to win the competition and was published. "Pi Yao..." was performed at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, located at 416 W. 42nd Street.
Congratulations to Tony Chiroldes, currently on Broadway in the hit musical In the Heights, which just won the Tony for Best Musical! Clara directed Tony last spring in Duncan Pflaster's play Admit Impediments.
Several years before Urinetown's Mark Hollmann began writing satirical songs about the public's right to pee he teamed up with playwright Jennifer Fell Hayes to pen a delightful musical for young audiences about one of New York's lesser known cultural landmarks. Fare For All at The Mount Vernon Hotel takes us back to 1830...The strong singing and dancing cast performs with gusto, but the real fun comes when the actors use audience volunteers to help demonstrate life in the 1830's.
In March and April, Clara performed again in Fare for All at the Mount Vernon
Hotel, Mark Hollman's interactive children's musical. This time she played
the role of Sarah, the teenage daughter of the Woodhull family who helps to run the hotel. Fare for All
played mostly to student groups but had one public performance
on Sunday, March 30.
In February, Clara appeared in longtime collaborator Duncan Pflaster's new play "The Fugly Train" as part of the Art Show Act One in Hoboken.
In January, Clara directed Elana Gartner's new play Because of Beth, a finalist in the Open Book 2007 Playwrighting Competition and a winner in the Pen and Brush Playwriting Contest. Beth played to full houses throughout January.
In December Clara directed the well-received A Christmas Carol at The Center for the Performing Arts at DeBaun Auditorium in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her adaptation sought to honor Dickens's original text, and
Clara chose all the musical pieces to be as authenticly 1840s English as possible, including such pieces as "Gabriel's
Message," the Coventry Carol, and "Once in Royal David's City." A Christmas Carol ran December 14-16 and was well-attended for all four performances.
David Zimmerman, executive director for the center, said that theatergoers can expect a brand new show with this year's performance.
"It's fabulous! I feel that this is artistically the strongest production in the [past] three years," said Zimmerman. "We've spent a lot of time trying to get the Dickens feel, and the language."
He said that is due in part to the talent of the director, Clara Barton Green, who is very passionate about the show....
Also in December, Clara appeared in a reading of Fancy Dancer as part of the World Indigenous Theatre Reading Series, presented by the Australian Aboriginal Theater Initiative.
In September, Clara appeared in Duncan Pflaster's The Thyme
of the Season: A Mid-Autumn Night's Dream as Puck, as part of the
Theater in the Rough series, sponsored by
Katherine and Friends. Thyme was co-conceived by Clara and
Duncan.
In August Clara appeared as Viola in Shakespeare’s gender-bending, heart-breaking comedy about love,
mourning, celebration and rebirth, Twelfth Night, produced by Holla Holla Productions.
Ben Beckley directed.
In May Clara directed Duncan Pflaster's full-length play
Admit Impediments to packed houses, as part of the
Midtown
International Theatre Festival's Next Step Development Series.
Last fall, Clara appeared as Calliope in Cross-Eyed Bear's production of Eternity: Time Without End for the
Spotlight On Halloween Festival. On September 24, her performance as Calliope, the enchanted nonsense-speaking waif,
was awarded a Spotlight On Award for Best Actress. Eternity: Time Without End was
nominated for 11 other "Spotties," including Best Production, Best Direction and Best Writing and actually won 3 other awards--Best Featured Performer (Joe Fanelli),
Best Supporting Actor (Jason Specland) and the Playwright's Award for Best Written Original Play, Long Form (Duncan Pflaster). The awards ceremony was at the Monster
in Greenwich Village.
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