Photo:  Clay poses with his 2011 Silver Palm Award
at the Theatre League of South Florida annual holiday party, December 5, 2011

CLAY CARTLAND is a native of South Florida. He began his theatrical career at the age of thirteen, when the high school drama team needed someone to step in to play Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, and he’s been ‘much a-doing’ it ever since. He has always considered himself a singer, but did not start out performing in musicals. Currently, it doesn’t matter what it is . . . if it’s on stage, he is going to do it. Having performed in musicals, plays, improvisational comedy, cabarets, stand-up comedy, musical reviews, and even just leading worship at church, Clay can always be seen performing in some capacity. On the rare occasions he’s not on stage, he can be found teaching Improv or writing the next prominent top-forty hit on his guitar.

Cartland was honored with a nomination for the prestigious Carbonell Award, and received the Silver Palm Award, for his role in Promethean Theatre’s 2011 production of Song of the Living Dead.  Additional South Florida credits include Lend Me A Tenor at the Broward Stage Door Theatre, Joseph . . . Dreamcoat at Actors’ Playhouse, The Rocky Horror Show and Assassins at Slow Burn Theatre Company, Rock Odyssey at the Adrienne Arsht Center, and Laffing Matterz at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.  Clay is a member of the Mainstage Improv Team at the Just the Funny Theatre in Coral Gables, Florida, and one of the founding members for the comedy troupe Book Dinner.