About
SARA CLIFFORD
WRITER, DRAMA PRACTITIONER, LECTURER, CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
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 work for young people includes plays for Nottingham Playhouse Roundabout, Pop Up and Greenwich Young People’s Theatre
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; and three residencies for St Christopher’s Hospice and projects for Clean Break Theatre Company. She has written teachers’ packs for the Science Museum, Spare Tyre Theatre Company, Cardboard Citizens and Greenwich Theatre.
She also trains artists to work in the third sector, and her company, Inroads, delivers the CPD for creative practitioners for Creative Partnerships in Sussex and Surrey, and building on this work, she has designed and developed a new accredited course in Creative Practice and Learning.
She is also a visiting lecturer at various universities, including MA and BA courses in Applied Theatre at Central School for Speech and Drama and the MA in in Cross Sectoral and Community Arts at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
She has co-authored a book, Making a Leap, a drama handbook for working with young people ( with Anna Herrmann, Jessica Kingsley, 1998); and written a contribution in Transmission, The Creative worker: new perspectives for the arts in Europe, UK Chapter, Different Contexts: Changing practice.
see also: www.saraclifford.com
MARK ROBERTSON
Mark Robertson is an experienced freelance educational consultant and theatre practitioner with a senior management background in cultural and creative education, project management, and partnership brokering. Mark helped to set up and run a 3 year youth theatre programme at the Young Vic Theatre and more recently was employed by Arts Council England as Director of Creative Partnerships London South, part of a national government-sponsored creative learning programme.
Mark has worked as a theatre director, producer and workshop leader for a number of London based community arts organisations including All Change, as well as working as arts development manager for national charity Education Extra.
Over the last 5 years mark has developed and managed a number of creative learning projects on behalf of Arts Council England, Creative Partnerships, Aimhiger Sussex, and the MLA - as well as developing a 2 year student voice project for the Hastings and St Leonards Excellence Cluster which was rolled out into other settings.
Mark is an experienced trainer specialising in student voice, creative learning and action research, and has extensive experience of supporting schools and creative practitioners to work successfully in partnership.
Other recent associates include:
Sheridan Quigley, Visual artist
Anne Colvin, Dance artist and educationalist