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DAVE CLEMMONS
Dave is an in demand teacher/lecturer having taught at every major music theatre training program in the country as well as Masterclasses in New York, LA, Chicago, Boston, Houston and
Orlando. He is a visiting professor at the acclaimed Elon University Musical Theatre Program and
is a permanent faculty member and musical director/conductor of The Performing Arts Project,
faculty for the Making it On Broadway Intensive Series in New York and LA and is Advising Faculty member at The New York School of Film and Television’s Musical Theatre program.
He began his career as a performer on Broadway with roles in Les Miserables (Valjean), The
Civil War( original company), The Scarlet Pimpernel (original company and Chaeuvelin on original
concept recording). He was featured as Corin/Amiens/Hymen in As You Like It at the Tony Award
winning Alley Theatre. He was seen as Jean Valjean in the National tour of Les Miserable (2
years) and the National tours of Jekyll and Hyde as well as regional the pre Broadway productions of Whistle Down the Wind (by Andrew Lloyd Weber, directed by Hal Prince at The National
Theatre in DC) and Jekyll and Hyde (The Alley Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Seattle’s
5th Ave. Theatre). Other roles have included Richard in The Lion in Winter, Che in Evita, Freddie
in Chess.
Dave Clemmons is the founder/owner of Dave Clemmons Casting, whose projects have included the Broadway revival of Driving Miss Daisy, Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland, Grumpy Old
Men and Tears of Heaven by Frank Wildhorn. Dave Clemmons Casting has cast Broadway
shows including The Boy from Oz (starring Hugh Jackman), Brooklyn (starring Eden Espinoza), Ring of Fire, In My Life, Dracula, The Civil War, Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and Jamie
Lynn Sigler. Off-Broadway shows including the New York revival of Charles Mee’s play, Big
Love, Bare, Bat Boy, Altar Boyz, Zanna Don’t!, the 2000 revival of Godspell and the National
Tours of Cinderella, Evita(directed by Hal Prince), Dr. Doolittle (directed by and starring Tommy
Tune), Millie, Cats, Fosse, Jekyll & Hyde, Chicago, Joseph…, Saturday Night Fever, and Moving
Out (choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp). Also, International tours (Europe, Asia and
Moscow) of Fosse (starring Ben Vereen), 42nd. St (directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner) and The Sound of Music. Regional plays include History of the Word at the Tony Award winning Crossroads Theatre, Making Tracks at San Jose Rep. and The Great Game (directed by
Randal Milam) at The Duke Univ. Theatre Co. Other recent projects include the new National tour
of Fiddler On the Roofstarring Topol/Harvey Firestein, the new Frank Wildhorn musical Wonderland, the new national tour of the musical version of 101 Dalmatians (dir Jerry Zaks,
music by Dennis DeYoung) and the national tour of The Wizard of Oz.
As a Producer he serves as a Producing Partner for StylesFour Entertainment recently serving
as producer/investors for the Broadway production of Once (Tony Award for Best Musical), Driving Miss Daisy (starring James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave) and Pee-Wee Herman on
Broadway. They have produced/invested in the Tony Award winning Spring Awakening, Talk Radio, the critically acclaimed New York production of Bat Boy and an Intimate Evening with Frank
Wildhorn and Friends (starring Frank Wildhorn, Linda Eder and Douglas Sills) and 25 Questions
for a Jewish Mother (starring Judy Gold). StylesFour is currently the lead producer for acclaimed
composer Scott Alan’s Broadway bound musical HOME and will be a part of the producing teams
for Hand To God (named Best Theatrical event in New York by Time Out) and Orphans which will
star Alec Baldwin.
As a music/vocal director or supervisor Dave has worked on the Broadway production of The
Civil War, National Tours of Jekyll and Hyde and The Civil War, Little Shop at The Alley Theatre,
vocal director arranger of The Civil War at The Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. and casting
director/vocal director/arranger for The Presidential Gala performance of The Civil War at The
National Theatre in D.C. starring Trisha Yearwood, Clay Aiken, Larry Gatlin and Hal Holbrook.
He has conducted the Broadway Gospel Choir and the Dave Clemmons Choir at Carnegie Hall
and on The Today Show, the Bravo Network, and the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway as well as
the Linda Eder album/DVD Christmas Stays the Same.