About Wardell

• Wardell Julius Clark is an actor, director, producer, teaching artist, and social justice activist.  Clark’s recent directing credits in Chicago include the critically acclaimed productions of The Watsons Go to Birmingham –1963 (Chicago Children’s Theatre), Dutch Masters (Jackalope), The Shipment (Red Tape), Surely Goodness and Mercy (Redtwist), and Insurrection: Holding History (Stage Left). He was also Associate Director for Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Assistant Director for Gem of the Ocean and Satchmo at the Waldorf (Court). His Chicago acting credits include Flyin’ West (American Blues); Suddenly Last Summer (Raven); Silent Sky (First Folio); Invisible Man (Court); The Whipping Man (Northlight); We Are Proud to Present… and The Gospel According to James (Victory Gardens); The Beats (16th Street Theater); Ghosts of Atwood (MPAACT), for which he received the Black Theater Alliance Denzel Washington Award for Most Promising Actor; and Topdog/Underdog (American Theater Company/Congo Square Theater). Regional credits include Othello, Macbeth, and The Learned Ladies (Theater at Monmouth); The Whipping Man (Cardinal Stage); Cymbeline (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival); and Fences (Carver Theatre). His television and film credits include Proven Innocent, Shameless  and Chicago Fire. Clark is a TimeLine Theatre Company Memeber. Originally from Fairfield, Alabama, Wardell earned his BFA degree ifrom The Theatre School at DePaul University. He is represented by Gray Talent Group.

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