John Clancy (playwright)

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John Clancy is a contemporary American playwright and director. He was a co-founder and first Artistic Director of the New York International Fringe Festival and its producing organization The Present Company.

John Clancy's written work centers mainly on the American experience, and is characterized by dark humor and farce. His best-known play is Fatboy: An American Grotesque, a modern re-working of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi.

Clancy's directing has earned five Fringe First Awards (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and two Best of Fringe Awards (Adelaide Fringe Festival). He was awarded a 2005 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Direction, a 2002 Glasgow Herald Angel Award for Excellence in Direction, and a 1997 New York Magazine Award.

From 2006 to 2007, Clancy will act as a guest director and professor at Rowan University.

Clancy lives on Manhattan's Lower East Side with his wife, actress Nancy Walsh.