Victoria Clark maintains a wonderfully diverse acting career, equally at home in plays, musicals, film, television, and the concert stage.  As a stage director, her work spans from original musicals to opera, to educational programming for all ages.

Victoria grew up the youngest of three children in Dallas, Texas. Encouraged by her parents and grandmother, she began voice and piano lessons at the age of six. Music has been her catalyst and companion ever since. She was blessed with extraordinary educational opportunities with generous teachers and mentors: Don Hermonat at First Community Church in Dallas, Sharon Grahnquist at The Hockaday School in Dallas, Gottfried Hornik at the Vienna State Opera, Edward Sayegh in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in New York City: Rebecca Taylor, Michael Howard, and Beret Arcaya. Her education began at The Hockaday School in Dallas, and expanded to include the Interlochen Summer Arts Program (Interlochen, Michigan),  American Institute of Musical Studies (Graz, Austria), and The Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria.)  Victoria graduated from Cum Laude from Yale University with a B.A. in  Music, and attended New York University’s prestigious Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program as a stage director. 

After one year in graduate school, Victoria had the opportunity to audition for the original production of Sunday in the Park With George, which she booked. From that point forward, she continued to enjoy her journey as a professional actor which has led her to thirteen Broadway plays and musicals, several off-Broadway plays and musicals, and many film and television appearances. Highlights include The Light in the Piazza on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater for which she was awarded the 2005 Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical, and starring roles in the original casts of Gigi (revival), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and Sister Act, for which she received Tony nominations.

Victoria is currently starring in Kimberly Akimbo on Broadway as Kimberly, for which she won the 2023 Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical and a Grammy nominations for Principal Soloist in the Musical Cast Album category. She also originated the role Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre, for which she won the 2022 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and a Drama League Distinguished Performance Award nomination. She was also nominated for a Drama Desk for the performance.

Ms. Clark’s films include The Happening, Wanderland (2018), Cradle Will Rock, Tickling Leo, Harvest, Main Street, and Archaeology of a Woman. Televisions credits include Blacklist (2021), Pose, (2021)Almost Family (Fox 2019-20), Little America (2020)The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018), Homeland, The Good Wife, Mercy, Law and Order, and Law and Order SVU.

Victoria directed Dance of Death at Classic Stage Company in 2019, Scaffolding by Jeff Blumenkratz and starring Rebecca Luker in 2018, the original musical Newton’s Cradle by Heath Saunders and Kim Saunders for the 2016 New York Musical Theater Festival, for which she won the festival’s award for Best Director. She has also directed for Texas Opera Theater, Philadelphia Opera, Chautauqua Opera, 92nd St. Y, the John Drew Theater, NAMT, and Pace University. In 2017, she directed the World Premiere of The Trouble With Doug for The Fredericia Theater in Fredericia, Denmark.

Victoria was scheduled to direct Love Life by Kurt Weill/Alan Jay Lerner at NY City Center Encores starring Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kate Baldwin in March, 2020 but was postponed mid-rehearsal due to the pandemic.

Ms. Clark is an avid teacher and educator. She served on the faculty at Yale University and as Artist-in-Residence at Pace University in 2014 and 2020, and teaches at conservatories and universities worldwide, as well as in her private studio in New York City.

Writing has always been a passion for Victoria.  Her original solo autobiographical show The Blessing Ring is in the final stages of development.

Her solo debut CD, Fifteen Seconds of Grace, is available through PS Classics as well as the 2022 reimagining of Maury Yeston’s acclaimed song cycle December Songs, featuring Victoria and full orchestra conducted by long-time collaborator and friend Ted Sperling.

Victoria is the proud mother of Thomas Luke (T.L.) Guest. She resides in Manhattan with her husband Tom Reidy and their rescue Golden Retriever Ollie.