Clare’s first full length play, Crossings was commissioned by Sgript Cymru, won a Pearson award and a year long residency at the West Yorkshire Playhouse where she wrote A Good Man. She is currently working on a new script, Fling, as part of the Jerwood/Arvon Foundation Playwrights scheme, which was showcased at the Soho Theatre, London. Crossings was published in March 2005 and toured the UK from March – June.

In 1997 Clare co founded Unlimited Theatre with whom she continues to write and perform. Unlimited Theatre have been awarded two Fringe Firsts and tour nationally and internationally as representatives of the British Council, most recently performing Neutrino in Los Angeles, the Ukraine, Cologne and Belfast and Static in the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Berlin. Zero Degrees and Drifting toured the UK in 2004 and Tangle as a work in progress was presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2005 and in February 2006 at the Horse Hospital in London. It will tour the UK in Autumn 2006.

Clare moved to Edinburgh in January 2004 and is currently working towards her PhD at the University of Glasgow’s Theatre, Film and Television department.

Clare is in receipt of a Scottish Arts Council Writer’s Bursary.

Clare is represented by Charlotte Knight