Peggy Clark graduated from
Smith College with a B.A. in dramatic arts, and attended the
Yale School of Fine Arts with a major in scenic design and lighting. She served as an assistant to many set designers, including John Koenig, Stewart Cheney,
Donald Oenslager, Howard Bay, Nat Karson and
Raoul Pene du Bois, as well as
Oliver Smith. Smith gave her the opportunity to work on her own as a lighting designer on ''Beggar's Holiday
(1946). She had started as a scenic designer in 1941 with the play Gabrielle''. She worked on some 78
Broadway productions, as a lighting designer and also occasionally as a set designer. She designed the lighting for musicals, such as
Bells Are Ringing (1956) and
Bye Bye Birdie (1960), revues, such as
Along Fifth Avenue (1949), starring
Nancy Walker and
Jackie Gleason. which ran for 180 performances on Broadway, and plays, such as
The Trip to Bountiful (1953),
Goodbye Charlie (1959), and
The Rose Tattoo (1966). Her papers are in the Clark Collection at the
Library of Congress. ==References==