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 and a reading in August of 2025. Clark’s work has been performed at venues including Symphony Space and Joe’s Pub in New York City.
