ABOUT
CLOTEAL L. HORNE (her/she)
Actor, Creative Producer, Educator, Facilitator
My name aptly weaves together parts of my grandparents' names. Be it to muster the courage to stand before witnesses onstage or on screen, as a raw nerve, in order to shine a light upon hidden parts of humanity, or to architect a world that ignites the imagination towards transformation— I am committed to collaborative processes that illuminate humanity through the craft of storytelling.
My work uproots classics and tethers itself to immersive ceremonies and rituals that center blackness, black-femininity. Calling on both the sacred and profane to locate that small (sometimes quiet) place where healing happens. I dedicate my practice to community, honest liberation, and building more just and joyous futures. Blissfully standing on the shoulders of those that come before me, I am a product of my grandmother’s prayers + the living embodiments of my ancestors, and their wildest dreams. Glory be.
Selected works include: TV: Grey’s Anatomy, Recurring Guest Star, Season 19 Off-Broadway: The Steadfast (Slant Theatre Project); Dirty Blood (Billie Holiday Theatre). Regional: Fires in The Mirror, Solo performer (LongWharf/Baltimore Center Stage), She A Gem (NYTW), The Bluest Eye (The Huntington Theatre), Cross That River the Musical (Marcus Garvey Amphitheater), and Black Odyssey (Trinity Rep.) FILM: Stay Here with Me (Tuli media) The Promotion (C1 Media), The Light (B.K.Lui.Horne), and Driving While Black Magic, Breaking Dawn: American Myth Project (The NET). Teaching: Yale School of Drama, Brown University, NYU- Playwrights Horizons/Meisner Studio, Vassar, and La Jolla Playhouse Student Conservatory. Facilitation: artEquity, Co-Program Lead of The BIPOC Leadership Circle, BIPOC Surviving PWI Processing Space.
MFA Acting- Brown University/Trinity Rep.
BFA Theater Arts- Boston University.