Mary Ruth Clarke

Mary Ruth Clarke

MARY RUTH CLARKE co-wrote and starred in the original “Meet the Parents” and co-adapted it into the blockbuster version, starring Robert De Niro. Her screenplay “Chimney Rock” is under option, and she has been a script doctor for many screenplays, including “A Guy Thing,” “Desperation Boulevard,” and “The Godfather of Green Bay.” Her play Bonhoeffer’s Cost was recently produced at Provision Theater, and her...
MARY RUTH CLARKE co-wrote and starred in the original “Meet the Parents” and co-adapted it into the blockbuster version, starring Robert De Niro. Her screenplay “Chimney Rock” is under option, and she has been a script doctor for many screenplays, including “A Guy Thing,” “Desperation Boulevard,” and “The Godfather of Green Bay.” Her play Bonhoeffer’s Cost was recently produced at Provision Theater, and her play Suffer The Long Night, co-written with Greg Glienna was recently produced in Los Angeles. She is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, where she teaches screenwriting. She is a member of the Writer’s Guide of America East, Dramatists Guild, and the Chicagoland Chapter of the American Society of Training and Development.

Plays

  • Bonhoeffer's Cost by Mary Ruth Clarke
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 3 more
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    Keyword: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, World War II + 3 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, faith-based, period
    Keyword: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, World War II, Nazi, christianity, religion
    Bonhoeffer’s Cost:

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer is being held without charges in Berlin’s Tegel prison. As World War II rages around him, this young theologian deliberates the role of the religion during upheaval and war, the consequences of national loyalty, and the cost of acting from one’s convictions. In a blind race between the forces of good and evil, will Dietrich make it out alive?
  • Suffer The Long Night by Mary Ruth Clarke
    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 1 more
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    Keyword: Farce
    Genre: comedy, farce, holiday
    Keyword: Farce
    It is opening night of the Merrillville Merry Art Player’s production of that classic suspense thriller Suffer The Long Night. Alas, due to that nasty flu epidemic, there’s been a few last minute cast and crew changes, but in true showbiz fashion, the show must go on! The actors valiantly play their parts, desperate to keep the play going, as everything that can go wrong does. It’s a real actor’s nightmare...
    It is opening night of the Merrillville Merry Art Player’s production of that classic suspense thriller Suffer The Long Night. Alas, due to that nasty flu epidemic, there’s been a few last minute cast and crew changes, but in true showbiz fashion, the show must go on! The actors valiantly play their parts, desperate to keep the play going, as everything that can go wrong does. It’s a real actor’s nightmare.
    The play is the all-too-familiar tale of a wholesome American family held hostage on Christmas Eve by a pair of murderous escaped convicts.
    The poor stage manager keeps discreetly appearing onstage, supplying missing props. And when she can’t find them? The actors improvise.
    (PS: In keeping with the farcical nature of the play, there are two sets of cast biographies, one real, and the other with the silly bios of the community theater amateurs playing the characters in Suffer.)