Clare is a writer for stage, radio, television and is increasingly working in new story telling platforms such as digital games and virtual reality.
Clare is the director of Civic Digits and co-director of Unlimited Theatre, which she co-founded in 1997. She won a Pearson Award for her first full-length play, CROSSINGS in 2003. This led to being Writer in Residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse 2004 where she wrote A GOOD MAN about a transman helping his father coming out of prison. Clare wrote and directed MONEY THE GAME SHOW for The Arches, Glasgow in 2011, which was remounted at The Bush in London in 2013. It was published by Oberon Books: ‘ingenious’.
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Clare’s play ARCTIC OIL was presented at The Traverse Theatre in October 2018. (**** The Stage, The Herald) She is currently commissioned by the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh to adapt HOW TO BE BOTH by Ali Smith and presented it as a work in progress at The Edinburgh International Book Festival in August 2018 (**** The Guardian). She was dramaturg for THE REASON I JUMP by Naoki Higashida, produced by National Theatre Scotland in May 2018 directed by Graham Eatough. She also co-wrote FUTURE BODIES with Unlimited and Rash Dash in 2018 for Home in Manchester.
Clare co-wrote the Cbeebies’ Christmas Show 2013-19, adapted A Midsummer Nights’ Dream for Cbeebies in 2016, which won the Royal Television Society’s award for Best Children’s Programme and abridged The Tempest for Cbeebies.
Clare is currently making The Big Data Show. This is a hugely ambitious project integrating ethical hacking and digital gaming on the audience’s own mobile phones to create a fully digitally immersive live performance in historic theatre venues such as Perth Theatre and The Lyceum, Edinburgh. Civic Digits’ second project about Artificial Intelligence and emotion recognition is in development.
She is also working on an immersive 360 film and theatre project “Nervous: 1001 ways to save your life” where I’m exploring the framing story for the 1001 Arabian Nights, with co-writer Maryam Hamidi.
Clare was brought up in South East London and has lived in Edinburgh since 2004 with her wife and now with their son.
