Founder of TN Women’s Theater Project Maryanna Clarke receives leadership award
From Grace Robinson, Public Information and Research Coordinator —
Maryanna Clarke, Founder and Artistic Director of Tennessee Women’s Theater Project (Nashville) was recently honored with a 2016 Women of Influence Award in Nonprofit Leadership from the Nashville Business Journal. The Women of Influence Awards honor business leaders for “for standing out in their fields, bringing their businesses to the forefront and helping others achieve success.”
Clarke has been active in Nashville theater for more than a dozen years. Inspired by her daughter, she went back to school and earned a degree in Theater with a minor in Entrepreneurship from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) to found the Tennessee Women’s Theater Project (TWTP).
TWTP is a professional, nonprofit theater company with a special focus on women, particularly to improve the lives of at-risk women in Middle Tennessee. Committed to the highest artistic standards in professional theater, TWTP has a four-fold mission:
- to present theatrical productions of the highest quality to Middle Tennessee audiences
- to produce plays that express the human condition in the female voice
- to provide acting, directing, design and management opportunities for
women in professional theater - to bring live theater to new, underserved audiences
The Women of Influence honorees will be introduced at a luncheon on February 9, with opening remarks by Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, and profiled in a special section of the February 12 edition of the Nashville Business Journal.
Congratulations from the TN Arts Commission, Maryanna.
