Emma Clark

Performance Maker Dramaturg Director Facilitator/Co-Creator Independent Producer

I am an interdisciplinary maker originally from California and currently based in London. I make work in the spaces between theatre, live art, and installation, with a particular interest in devised, collaborative, and research-based processes. My work is playful, political, and ultimately concerned with creating distinctive spaces charged with the possibility of encounter between maker, performer, and audience.

Pronouns: she/her

Credits

MAKER/PERFORMER, Ghosts of the Near Future, New Diorama Theatre/emma + pj, 2 nights, 2021 (in development)

DIRECTOR/FACILITATOR, Digital Renaissance Project, Andy's Summer Playhouse (digital), 3 months, 2020

MAKER, Piece for Pierogi/Piece for Potsticker, Chinese Arts Now (digital), 2 months, 2020

MAKER/PERFORMER, Something in Your Voice, Bristol Old Vic Ferment/Emergency Chorus, 1 night, 2020 (in development)

MAKER/PERFORMER, Atlantic, VAULT Festival & DARE Festival/emma + pj, 1 week, 2018-2020

MAKER/PERFORMER, the accident did not take place, YESYESNONO & The Pleasance (Edinburgh Fringe & National Tour), 2 months, 2019

DIRECTOR/FACILITATOR, The Yardlings Present: Obsession Party, The Yard Theatre, 1 night show w/10 month community facilitation process, 2019

MAKER/PERFORMER, Saint Somebody, Clara Potter-Sweet w/Camden People's Theatre, 1 night, 2019

MAKER/PERFORMER, Gold Mountain, Emma Clark w/Chinese Arts Now and Soho Theatre, 1 night/R&D, 2018 - 2019

DIRECTOR, Beyond the Canon (RADA & E15), 2 nights, 2018

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Tower, AntiMatter Collective & HERE Arts Center (Off-Broadway), 3 weeks, 2015

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Boged: An Enemy of the People, Theater J (Washington DC), 1 month, 2013

AWARDS & AFFILIATIONS:

2021/22 - Barbican Centre Open Lab Resident Artist (emma + pj)

2019 - Total Theatre Award Nomination (YESYESNONO - Innovation, Experimentation, and Playing with Form)

Training

MA Advanced Theatre Practice, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

BSFS Culture and Politics, Georgetown University

Young Vic Springboard Program

Ping Chong + Company Summer Training Institute

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Live art
  • Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
  • New technologies / digital
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • Visual arts

What I do

  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Languages
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Music Composition
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Producing
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Sound Design
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with young people
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Spanish (Conversational), Cantonese (Beginner)

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