Lori Holmes Clark

is a theatre maker, choreographer, installation artist by trade and a farmer mama by marriage.

Selected Performance Credits: Broadway Cast/Recordings: Wicked, Taboo, Footloose. European/U.S. tours: Wicked, Fosse. Pre-Broadway Workshops: Chicago, Fosse Off-Broadway: HAIR, Georgia. Regional: Titania, A Midsummer NIght’s Dream, Directed by Fiona Ross of RSC, Shea Theater. Trinity Repertory (West Side Story,  Annie), Chester Theater (Gem of the Valley), Shea Theater (Deus ex Machina, Sam’s Place, A Happening, Charley’s Place), Radical Interconnectedness Festival (Cloudy, with a Chance of Fringe), Hess Center (Perception/FINE HOUSE), Full Disclosure Festival (Crill’s Companion), Double Take Fringe Festival (Sweet Slice of Life). Film:The Holdovers, The Joy is in the Work. Fruit, SHOWBUSINESS: The Road to Broadway. Television: Guiding Light, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Music Videos: Cloudbelly’s Handfuls, Old Flame’s Hollow. Lori is a proud union member of Actor’s Equity and SAG/AFTRA.

Selected Choreography/Directing/Devising Credits: Alice by Heart, Fools, a Comic Fable, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Twelfth Night, the musical, Hess Center. Fine House at Barbes In the Woods. Cloudy, with a Chance of Fringe, Radical Interconnectedness Festival. A Sonnet in Your Pocket, Limerence and Rhyme, Hess Center. Deus ex Machina, Dir: John Bechtold, Shea Theater. Spring Musical Revue, Hess Center. Perception/FINE HOUSE, Hess Center. Crill’s Companion, with poet Hildred Crill, Full Disclosure Festival. Cabaret, Hess Center. In the End, Full Disclosure Festival. Sweet Slice of Life, Double Take Fringe Festival. Eurydice, Academy of Music. Truth, NY Fringe Festival. Fruit, film. Lori recreated “Urbie’s Fitch,” made famous by Gwen Verdon, for the Holland production of Fosse, this began her love affair with clowning and gesture based choreography. 

For six years, Lori choreographed Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, Fandango Galas. She was honored to work with many charismatic and kind performers during this process. Always grateful to her mentor, Ann Reinking, for trusting her to help guide the movement of greats like Paul Newman, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Bernadette Peters and Kyra Sedgwick to create performances that raised millions of dollars for children battling blood diseases and cancer. The most special connection this project provided was an enduring friendship with Mary Mitchell Campbell, whose incredible organization ArtsIgnite, is in its 10th year and has served over 10,611 children! Lori continues to strive to use her training and passion for the arts to make a positive impact every day. Many hands make lighter work, and there is always more work to be done!

Educational work: Lori is currently part-time faculty, at Deerfield Academy, as a theatre teacher, choreographer, and director. Lori has choreographed and given master classes across the country in countless major cities, and locally at Northfield Mount Hermon, Bement, and Deerfield Academy. Lori holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in Drama and she is a certified hot yoga teacher. Clarkdale Fruit Farms in Deerfield, MA is where you will find a real sweet slice of life. Special thanks to Lori’s most influential dance teacher, Robin Dawn Ryan.

Lori is the Founder and Artistic Director of FINE HOUSE, a multi-disciplinary theatre company, where fine art and fun house collide! They aspire to provide a balm of beauty through design, dance, theatre, clown, music and video installations. FINE HOUSE has played venues including Barbes in the Woods, the Hess Center, the Radical Interconnectedness Fringe Festival, the Greenfield Winter Fest and Good Stock Farm. Fine House creates custom, site specific performances and installations. Fine House is currently producing Doorways: Mirth and Memory at Clarkdale Fruit Farms. Stay tuned for the opening of this intriguing visual/audio installation. Fine House creates in collaboration with eggtooth productions.

Recognition: Lori is honored to be a grant recipient of MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program and the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts’ ValleyCreates Artists: Project Evolution 2022 and 2023. BFA for Drama, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Dance Educator’s Miss Dance of America, a long time ago.