About Katherine Elisabeth Clark

Katherine Elisabeth Clark (writer/director) resides in Philadelphia, PA. Her short films have screened at the Academy-Qualifying Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival (Directorial Discovery Award), Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival (Best Short), Female Eye Film Festival (nominated Best Short), Gig Harbor Film Festival, Charlotte Film Festival, Westfield International Film Festival (Best Female Director, Best Cinematography), among others. Katherine has been a fellow in Creative Lab Hawaii's year-long Writers Immersive Program.

Her work typically explores settings in outer space, humans who are actually sea creatures, or artists who seek connection.

Katherine also works to increase visibility in local and regional arts. She is the co-founder of PopUp Anthology, a Trenton, NJ-based organization dedicated to supporting the voices of local, independent filmmakers. With PopUp, she has organized and curated screenings to feature dozens of regional filmmakers, and has partnered with local organizations such as Artworks Trenton, Trenton Film Society, Pennsylvania Center for Photography, Acme Screening Room, in addition to Full Spectrum Features in Chicago.

She is frequently involved with festival programming. She has been a judge at Westfield International Film Festival, a submission screener for Philadelphia Film Festival, and has led panels on Social Issue Filmmaking at Trenton Film Festival. She has also been involved with the Chicago International Children's Film Festival and Facets Multimedia.

From 2017-2023, she worked at Theatre Philadelphia (Development and Communications) to organize and promote the annual Philly Theatre Week, highlighting over 80 theatre companies and 300 performances in a 10-day period. She also organized and led Theatre Philadelphia Emergency Relief, which provided micro-grants totaling $344,000 to theatre workers throughout the pandemic, and the Content + Criticism Cohort, a workshop series for 10 local writers to create content on Philadelphia theatre. In 2023, she became Institutional Giving Manager at the Wilma Theater.

Katherine earned her M.F.A. in Film Directing from Columbia College Chicago, and her B.A. from UNC Asheville (major in Mass Communications, major in Creative Writing, minor in Studio Art). She has also attended Masaryk University to conduct research on the Czechoslovak New Wave. She currently studies Japanese language with the Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C.

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