SHARON CLARK
Sharon Clark is a playwright, dramaturg and Creative Director of Bristol based, immersive company Raucous. For Raucous she has written and co-directed The Stick House, Ice Road, The Prick & The Sting , The Lantern Room (co-production with Toronto based company, Lost & Gone) and The Whale. She has given talks on digital technology and immersive theatre at institutions such as MIT(US), Banff Centre of Creativity & The Arts (Canada) and Skovde University (Sweden)
For 8 years she was Literary Producer at Bristol Old Vic and has previously worked with Theatre 503, the National Theatre, the Arcola, the RSC, the New Diorama, Bath Theatre Royal, Sherman Cymru and Tobacco Factory Theatres. Her plays have been awarded a Bruntwood Judge’s Prize and been shortlisted for the Yale Drama Prize and the PapaTango Prize. She was dramaturg for Akram Khan on his production of The Jungle Book Reimagined and has worked with Aardman Animations and the BBC on the VR film, Is Anna Okay?
She is an alumni member of the Channel 4 scheme for new voices to TV where she scripted the series Meadow Park and is currently writing her first feature film with support from the BFI.
In 2019 she was made a Royal Shakespeare Company/Magic Leap Digital Fellow exploring theatre with mixed realities. Sharon is a resident at the Pervasive Media Studio and senior lecturer at the University of the West of England.