Clay Stefanki

As a boy, he performed in youth theater productions at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert. And when the family moved to Olivenhain when Clay was 12, he got involved in school theater and trained at La Jolla Playhouse. He earned the Clayton E. Liggett theater award when he graduated from San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas and he was one of just 15 students selected for the musical theater program at the University of California.

He made his Moonlight debut in 2008 in “Guys and Dolls,” followed by “42nd Street” in 2009 and “Oklahoma!” in 2010.

After college, Stefanki moved to New York to pursue a Broadway career, but returned frequently to perform in Southern California. Among his other local shows were “Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” and “October Sky” at The Old Globe, “Guys and Dolls” and “Festival of Christmas” at Lamb’s Players Theatre, “All Shook Up” at San Diego Musical Theatre and “Life Could Be a Dream” at Moonlight.

The two highlights of his career were playing Bert in the “Mary Poppins” musical at Tuacahn Theatre in Utah and performing in “Miss Saigon” in Macau.