Sara Clifford
Sara Clifford
Sara works as a writer, drama practitioner, continuing professional development consultant....
as a practising playwright with nearly twenty plays to her name, she has created work for the Soho Theatre, York Theatre Royal and Oxfordshire Touring Theatre. 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 and has undertaken three residencies for St Christopher’s Hospice and projects/packs for Clean Break Theatre Company, 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 Continuing Professional Development programme for creative practitioners for Creative Partnerships in Hastings, East Sussex, Brighton, West Sussex and Surrey.
Building on this work, she has designed and developed a new Foundation Degree in Creative Practice and Learning, piloting at University Centre Hastings from Autumn 08 which is. being funded and evaluated by Creative Partnerships and UCH.
Other recent training work includes:
• Tutor, Certificate in Arts Delivery and the Global Dimension at Primary Education Level, Music for Change
• Mentoring training for Take 5 film practitioners, Lighthouse, Brighton
• Mentoring emerging practitioners for All Ways Learning
• Visiting tutor, Arts in Health, MA in Cross Sectoral and Community arts, Goldsmiths College
She has also undertaken consultancy work, writing reports for Spare Tyre Theatre company, Clean Break Theatre Company and Ithaca arts, and was a Mentor for Cape UK, CARA 2 project, at Oxford Hospital School.
She has also 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.
International work includes collaborations with Saskia Huybrechtse in the Netherlands and with Estudio Macuba in Cuba.
( see also www.saraclifford.com)
