December 13, 2019
Headlining the university’s annual Winter Convocation is Bryan Terrell Clark, an accomplished actor and singer/songwriter who recently appeared as George Washington in Broadway’s Tony Award-winning, smash hit Hamilton.
Clark will deliver his message, Finding Your Purpose: From Baltimore to Broadway’s Hamilton, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, in the Degenstein Center Theater in the Charles B. Degenstein Campus Center.
The event is free and open to the public.
Clark is an accomplished actor and singer/songwriter who has performed in hugely successful Broadway shows and a wide range of popular television programming for various networks.
He made his Broadway debut playing the iconic role of Marvin Gaye in Motown: The Musical. Numerous television appearances include Netflix’s When They See Us, OWN’s Queen Sugar, CBS’s NCIS: New Orleans and Blue Bloods, and Fox’s Empire. Musically, Clark has performed with Brandy, Ciara and Michael Bublé.
He is the co-founder of inDEFINED, a philanthropic lifestyle brand that raises money for various charities and philanthropic organizations and supports arts education for at-risk youth.
Clark graduated from the Yale School of Drama and Temple University. He is a native of Baltimore and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Additional activities during the week at Susquehanna include:
- An interfaith chapel service, Visions of Justice, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 4:15 p.m. in Weber Chapel Auditorium, with the Rev. Scott Kershner, university chaplain, presiding. All are welcome.
- The Legacy of MLK – A Day of Teaching, on Wednesday, Jan. 22. The daylong event features lectures and readings in topics across the humanities and sciences.
- A dramatic reading of I’ve Been to the Mountaintop, King’s final speech, delivered by Susquehanna alumnus Darrell Willis ’74 at 11:40 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, in Mellon Lounge in the Degenstein Campus Center.