Background
Clark, Peggy was born on September 30, 1915 in Baltimore. Daughter of Eliot Round and Eleanor (Linton) Clark.
Clark, Peggy was born on September 30, 1915 in Baltimore. Daughter of Eliot Round and Eleanor (Linton) Clark.
Clark, born Margaret Brownson Clark, graduated from Smith College with a Bachelor of Arts in dramatic arts, and attended the Yale School of Fine Arts with a major in scenic design and lighting.
She designed lighting for dance and opera, but she "is best known for her work on musicals."
She served as an assistant to many set designers, including John Koenig, Stewart Cheney, Donald Oenslager, Howard Bay, National 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 subsequently worked on some 78 Broadway 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 (1960), and plays, such as The Trip to Bountiful (1953) and The Rose Tattoo (1966). Her papers are in the The Clark Collection at the Library of Congress.
She died on June 19, 1996.
Fellow United States Institute Theatre Technology (vice commissioner engineering commission. Heritage award 1985). Member United Scenic Artists (recording secretary 1942-1947, trustee 1948-1951, president 1968-1969, vice president 1974-1976, pension and welfare trustee 1970-1980, 84-90), American National Theatre and Academy, Illuminating Engineering Society, Yale Drama Alumni Association (Eastern vice president 1970-1977, president 1977-1983), Woods Hole Protective Association (president 1978-1981) Clubs: French Bull Dog of America (president 1972-1986), Smith (Brooklyn, New York City and Cape Cod).
Woods Hole Yacht (secretary 1978-1980, vice commodore 1980-1981, commodore 1981-1983).
Married Lloyd R. Kelley, January 28, 1960.