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Welcome to Sara Clifford’s homepage, Summer 2012
Sara is a playwright with nearly twenty plays to her name, including work for the Soho Theatre, York Theatre Royal and Oxfordshire Touring Theatre. Her play, A Thousand Days, was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, for women who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre.
Her work for young people includes plays for Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout, Pop Up and Greenwich Young People’s Theatre.
Most recently, she wrote Kit de Survie and Sisters for performance in Paris and Guadeloupe; and has received ACE and Heritage Lottery funding for a site specific play for Newhaven, The Port, The Beast and The Traveller, to be performed in September 2012. She is also writing a new play, Non, with French writer/musician, Denis Baronnet, to be produced in Rome in 2013; and a dance/scripted piece for intergenerational dancers about the Regent Dancehell in Brighton.
For more information see the WRITING page.
Alongside this, she works as a writer and drama practitioner in educational, health and criminal justice settings, including work for the National Theatre and Nottingham Playhouse, and as an Education Associate for the Donmar Warehouse Theatre; three residencies for St Christopher’s Hospice and projects for Clean Break Theatre Company and Magic Me.
She is currently evaluating the community dance piece, The Ballroom of Joys and Sorrows, at Watford Palace Theatre.
For more information see the EDUCATION and HEALTH pages.
She also trains artists to work in the third sector, and, most recently, co-led an international workshop and guide for artists working in primary schools across Europe for the Artists in Creative Education guide, launched at a conference in Brussels in October 2011. Her company, Inroads, managed and delivered the CPD for creative practitioners for Creative Partnerships in Sussex and Surrey for five years.
She has recently joined the Artswork pool of freelance trainers, and been commissioned by the Creative and Cultural Skills Sector Council to lead Training for Trainers at the Creative Choices events.
For more information see the TRAINING page and www.inroads.org.uk
She is also a visiting lecturer in Applied Theatre at Central School of Speech and Drama and on the MA in Cross Sectoral and Community Arts at Goldsmiths College.
Sara is also a member of The Fence, an international network of working playwrights, leading to collaborations with writers from the Netherlands, Gaudeloupe, France and Italy. See the-fence.net for more information.