Career
He was one of the inaugural recipients of the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 1986. Clontz earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of California, Los Los Angeles Plays by Clontz include Generations, Night Breath, Interfusions, Fire/Photograph, American Play, and A Match Made in Heaven.
Clontz died of lung cancer.
His heirs have announced planned publication of a posthumous collection of his plays and poems.
