Dorie Clark Musical Bio
Dorie Clark is a lyricist in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, and with collaborator Marie Incontrera, a 2023 Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship Finalist and the winner of second place in the 2022 NMI Search for New Musicals for their show Absolute Zero. She is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, a producer of a multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz album, and a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.
Absolute Zero, which received a developmental production at Ohio Wesleyan University in April 2024, has received media coverage in Forbes and the Harvard Business Review, and was workshopped at Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater in July 2024. The show received a York Theatre Company staged reading in spring 2023, a Dallas staged reading in 2022 (as the result of winning a MusicalWriters.com pitch competition), and was a 2023 semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Music Theatre Conference. Clark’s show The Philosopher of Love, a modern-day retelling of Plato’s Symposium written with composer Shoshana Shattenkirk Borve, received a workshop production in Malmo, Sweden in September 2023. Clark’s work has been performed at venues including Symphony Space and Joe’s Pub in New York City.
Shows
Absolute Zero
Book and Lyrics by Dorie Clark, Music by Marie Incontrera
Absolute Zero is the lowest temperature known to humanity. It’s just a theoretical construct that’s never actually been reached – until now. By terrorists. But when the CIA’s top agent – sexy lesbian lothario Sam Knight - is called in to investigate, she never expected that in order to save humanity, she’d have to excavate her own past.
Actor's Equity Reading at York Theatre Company, New York City, March 2023
Performance at New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series, October 2023
Opening Night for Ohio Wesleyan Production of Absolute Zero - April 2024. Photo Credit: Jennifer Scheehle
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23 and You and You and Me
Book and Lyrics by Dorie Clark, Music by Marie Incontrera
What if everything you thought about yourself, your family, and your history…turned out not to be true? 23 and You and You and Me is a semi-autobiographical, comedic musical based on lyricist and librettist Dorie Clark's true story of discovering via a genetic testing website that her father was not, in fact, her father.
Two decades after the sequencing of the human genome, we’re entering a new era of transparency, in which long-held secrets are being upended every day. 23 and You and You and Me is a deeply felt, funny, and profoundly human look at what it means to “know” who we are, and what happens when that knowledge is called into question. Because while DNA informs us, only we get to decide who and what we’ll be in the world.
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The Philosopher of Love
Book and Lyrics by Dorie Clark
Martin is a philosophy professor – but that doesn’t mean he has all the answers. In fact, on the heels of a bad breakup with his fiancée, he feels like he has none.
So his best friend Diana throws him a dinner party to cheer him up and rekindle, through friends and good conversation, his faith in finding love. But her plan goes awry when Martin’s long-ago ex – now the founder of a successful online dating app – shows up unexpectedly.
In this immersive, modern retelling of Plato’s Symposium – which features a discussion of the nature of love, set during an Athenian dinner party - Martin and Diana, amidst their own gathering, are forced to question their assumptions about human connection and how to find (and keep) love in an isolating age.
Rehearsals for The Philosopher of Love workshop, Sept. 2023, Malmo, Sweden
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