CLAY WILD MUNLEY (they/he/she) is a nonbinary, T4T, interdisciplinary artist, deviser, and intimacy director who creates experimental, absurdist, and whimsical new works. They create stories about gender/queer bodies, intimate connections through movement, and conjure magical worlds. Clay has assisted various productions at Off-Broadway theaters and festivals, and has been profiled and featured in The NY Times, Broadway.com, and Howlround Theatre Commons. 

They studied Theatrical Directing, Women’s and Gender Studies, and International Performance through Pace University and the Institute of the Arts Barcelona. They received their Artist Consent Certification through IDC Professionals NYC. Their work in dissecting intimacy direction, queer performance studies, and devised theater gained them an academic research award titled “Excellence in Interdisciplinary Studies” through The Society of Fellows in March 2025.

They’re a writer, production assistant, and creative director for music videos, Primadonna Zine, and HU Zine & Magazine. They’ve interned on “The Watch” for The New York Neo-Futurists, and were the assistant director and writer to Emil Weinstein (A League of Their Own, Becoming Eve, The L Word: Generation Q). They solo barista at Yafa Cafe in Downtown Brooklyn and work as a Box Office and Production Assistant for Broken Box Mime.

Select credits include: [seapony] (Dixon Place x Brooklyn Arts Exchange) AN ENBY'S GUIDE TO CLOWNING AROUND! (Dixon Place Hot Festival 2025), THE FREAK FEAST! (bkONE’s Total Theatrical Takeover 2025), MOTHER EARTH, LET ME BLOOM! (The International Human Rights Art Festival 2024), M4M (Rogue Arts x Purgatory) and Walls: Chloe’s Story (The Tank). PUSSYSLUDGE (Schaeberlie Studio Theatre), THE GREAT AWAKE by Julia Armfield (Pace University), GHOST PLAY by Persephone Erin Hudson (Mabou Mines). 

www.claywildmunley.com | @claywildmunley