Collection Dates: 1996 -- 1999
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Posted to Internet: June 1999
Acquisition
Note: Sean
Clark donated his papers to the University of Iowa Libraries in 1999.
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Biographical Note
Patrick Sean Clark received his B.S. from the University of Missouri in 1982. He earned his MFA in playwriting at the University of Iowa. While still a student he won the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, as well as the American College Theatre Festival's National Student Playwriting Award, and the David Library Award.
Clark has been associated with some of the most popular and critically acclaimed television programs of the past decade. He wrote for shows such as Northern Exposure and The Commish and worked as a story editor on Coach and Evening Shade. He was a consulting producer on Sirens and Sliders and was a supervising producer on Early Edition.
In addition to his
work for television, he has written several plays and screenplays. Sean Clark
is currently the director of the Graduate Screenwriting Program at the University
of Nevada at Las Vegas.
The papers of Sean
Clark consist of television scripts and screenplays that he wrote between 1996
and 1999. The scripts were written for the CBS television program, Early
Edition. One script for that series, written by Carla Kettner, is also included
in this collection. There are also drafts of his screenplay, Black Irish,
which has been optioned but not yet produced.
Early Edition
Production and release schedules, market share reports, etc., 1998 -- 1999.Scripts
Production Number [--]. "Afterlife" or The Wrong Goodbye" by Carla Kettner. Outline, January 25, 1999.Scripts by Sean Clark
Production Number 308. "Deadline"Producer's draft, September 28, 1998.Revised producer's draft, September 29, 1998.
Production Number 313. "The Last Untouchable":
Holograph draft.Outline.
Outline with holograph revisions.
Typescript drafts (2 copies).
Production draft, November 23, 1998.
Casting lists.
Production Number 319. "Crumb Again?"
Untitled holograph draft outline.Untitled outline (2 copies).
Untitled holograph draft.
Typescript draft with holograph revisions.
Later typescript draft.
Production draft, February 23, 1999.
Production Number 322. "Play It Again, Sammo"
Correspondence, 1999.Holograph outline with corrections and revisions.
Outline with holograph revisions.
Outline with holograph revisions.
Outline with holograph revisions.
Outline (2 copies).
Holograph draft with an incomplete photocopy.
Typescript draft.
Early Edition (cont.)
Scripts by Sean Clark (cont.)Production Number 322. "Play It Again, Sammo" (cont.)Production draft, March 30, 1999.Production draft with holograph corrections and revisions, March 30, 1999.
Incomplete production draft with holograph revisions.
Production draft with revisions, March 30, 1999.
Opening credits.
Screenplays by Sean Clark
Black Irish, August 6, 1996.Black Shamrock, (later reverted to the title, Black Irish) March 14, 1997.
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