DANIEL CLARKE

Daniel is currently directing Like It Is, Journeys’ Made and Positive Stories for Feast Festival 2009. For Brink Productions he has been chosen as a director for Gorge. Daniel successfully artistically directed Feast 2007 and 2008 winning the Ruby Award in 2007 for Community Impact. In Feb 2009 Daniel directed the Dennis Kelly’s “After the End” for Adelaide Fringe. He has worked for Leicester Haymarket Theatre Company producing the Australian, UK and New York tour of ‘The Bogus Woman’, and directing 2 new pieces of theatre; ‘Contaminated Candy’ and ‘Excavate’. As Director of Youth Theatre and Drama Development at The Point, Eastleigh, he directed Mark Ravenhill’s ‘Citizenship’, which toured Southern England and was produced in the West End at the Jermyn Street Theatre as part of London Pride. He also Directed Mark Wheeller’s ‘Black Out’, Richard Nelson’s ‘Where I come From’ and a new piece of theatre, ‘And then I Opened The Window’. For the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, Daniel produced a series of queer play readings, including ‘The Fat Boy’, by Tony Ayers, which he also directed. Daniel was a founding member of Zip Antics Theatre. In the UK he produced the national tour of ‘Go Fish’, adapted from the cult film of the same name. In Australia, for Zip Antics, he directed Jonathan Harvey’s ‘Beautiful Thing’, Tamsin Oglesby’s ‘ Two Lips Indifferent Red’, Josh Tyler’s ‘First Time Out’, and Adelaide Fringe project ‘Lucky Dip’. For The Bakehouse Theatre he directed Chekhov’s, ‘The Seagull’ and Dina Ross’s ‘Waiting’. Daniel has also worked as a Director with Splash Theatre Company and directed ‘Antigone’ and ‘Atlanta’, by Joanna Murray Smith for the Centre For Performing Arts (AC Arts). He has worked as Assistant Director with State Theatre Company of South Australia, Playbox Theatre (Australia) and Brink Productions. He has worked at D Faces of Youth Arts (Artistic Director), Urban Myth Theatre of Youth, Carclew Youth Arts Centre and Jumbuck Youth Theatre. Daniel was awarded the prestigious Dame Ruby Litchfield Scholarship for Performing Arts in 2002, which enabled him to work as Assistant Director to Mike Bradwell on Catherine Johnson’s ‘ Little Baby Nothing’ at The Bush Theatre, London. He has also been awarded a Centenary Medal for services to the community through theatre and his production of ‘First Time Out’, won Best Community Show (Professional) in the Adelaide Light year awards.