Billy Clark
Artistic Director

billy@culturehub.org


 

Billy Clark is the Artistic Director of CultureHub and has overseen the development of CultureHub’s artistic, education, and community programs since 2009. A graduate of the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU, Billy has been a performer, director, creative producer, and designer in the New York City downtown art scene for over 25 years. His work has been seen at GBGBs, P.S. 122, Theatre for a New City, the Brooklyn Museum, and Asia Society. In 1996 he became a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company and he has performed in Korea, Serbia, Turkey, Italy, Austria, Japan, Croatia, and Macedonia with the company. He has also performed in two of Min Tanaka’s world premieres and three of Tamar Rogoff’s performance projects. He is currently a professor at the Seoul Institute of the Arts where he has taught for 15 years. With his co-teachers he has developed courses including Immersive Storytelling, Actor as Creator, and Performing with Technology. He has been a guest teaching artist at CUNY Hunter College, Sarah Lawrence College, and NYU’s Gallatin, Collaborative Arts, IMA, and Interactive Telecommunications Programs. At NYU he developed a course called IRL/URL Performing Hybrid Systems along with Tiri Kananaruk and the CultureHub team. Selected Production Credits include: Technology, Media, and Projection Design - Medea (2024 - La MaMa), Co-Creator - Fractals of Prometheus (2023 - La MaMa), Co-Director - A Few Deep Breaths (2022 - La MaMa), Co-Director - Take 21 (2021 - CultureHub), Co-Creator - Left Out (2019 - CultureHub), Creative Producer and Set Designer - Balls (2019 -CultureHub), Creative Producer - Marzipansy (2018 - Gentle Monster Soho), Video Design - Panorama (2018 - La MaMa), Co-Director - Hi-fi | Wi-fi | Sci-fi (2017 - La MaMa), Director - Seoul Counterpoint by DJ Spooky (2013 - La MaMa & Asia Society). Billy often gives talks about the convergence of art and technology. Recent speaking engagements include: Festival International De La Imagine (2023) - Manizales Colombia and DCA Los Angeles RENEW Conference (2023). Billy was chosen as one of the 100 Top Creatives by Origin Magazine and was part of the team nominated for an Innovative Theatre Award for the video design of Panorama which had “Video images and simulcasts, as deft as the hands of a three-card monte artist”--New York Times.

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