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George E. Clark<\/p><\/div>\n

George E. Clark is a college librarian at Harvard<\/a>\u00a0and a sometime actor and writer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

George graduated in May 2022 from the Harvard Extension School master’s degree program in Dramatic Arts<\/strong>. While there, George studied acting with Remo Airaldi<\/a> and writing with Bryan Delaney<\/a>. For one of Bryan’s classes, George wrote a one-act farce set in academe titled Lordy Parkington Gets Hit by a Bus<\/em>. George’s thesis is about an outdoor theater in Washington, D.C. It is titled<\/span>\u00a0Stepping to the National Stage: Protesting Injustice, Producing Shakespeare, and Claiming Black Space at the Sylvan Theater<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In the spring of 2021, George worked as a background actor<\/strong> on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel<\/em>. The easiest place to find him is in season 4, episode 2<\/a>. He is front row center when Midge discovers the stage of The Wolford burlesque club.\u00a0 More recently, he played a reporter in the Kiera Knightley film Boston Strangler.\u00a0<\/em>In 2020, George appeared as an extra in the Michelle Dockery\/Chris Evans miniseries\u00a0Defending Jacob<\/em>.\u00a0 See him as a janitor in episode 1 and a news cameraman in the trailer and episode 3. He also appeared as a background actor in the Kyle Chandler television series Early Edition.<\/em>\u00a0 Back in the day, he worked as cast or crew in Tartuffe<\/em>, Once Upon A Mattress<\/em>, and Twelfth Night<\/em> at Earlham College, and was a player in the Earlham-based improv company Off the Cuff.<\/span><\/p>\n

George is a former columnist for Environment<\/i> magazine. His poetry<\/strong> has been published in Shot Glass Journal<\/i>; West Texas Literary Review; <\/em>The Resource<\/i>, Harvard University’s HR newsletter; Crucible<\/i>, the literary magazine of Earlham College; and Lines in the Landscape<\/i>, a juried chapbook published by Fruitlands Museum and the Concord (MA.) Poetry Center. George’s poetry book manuscript, Next Morning, With Pickles<\/em>, was a semifinalist for the Ohio State University Press\/The Journal<\/em> Wheeler Prize for Poetry in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has a B.A. in geology from Earlham College, and other master’s degrees in geography and library & information science from the University of Chicago and Simmons University, respectively.\u00a0 He received his Ph.D. in geography from Clark University, where he worked on water resources, environmental hazards, and social vulnerability and resilience to climate change<\/strong>.\u00a0 His article<\/a> with colleagues from Clark U. on coastal flooding in Revere, Massachusetts, is one of the most-cited early articles on measuring resilience to climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n

George grew up in Fairfax, Virginia, where he attended Robinson High School, and his family hails from Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.\u00a0 He currently lives in metrowest Massachusetts about halfway between Boston and Worcester.\u00a0 George and his spouse, Elizabeth, have two adult children and two adult cats.<\/span><\/p>\n

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