Sharon Clark
Raucous
Sharon is the Creative Director of Raucous, a collaboration of theatre practitioners, writers, filmmakers, composers and creative technologists.
Worked on
More Than AI Sandbox
Sandbox is a tried-and-tested methodology to bring together teams of brilliant people to test new ideas with generosity and rigour in a three month R&D.
MyWorld - Strength in Places
Watershed is excited to be a partner in MyWorld, a project led by the University of Bristol that will celebrate the West of England's reputation as an international trailblazer in creative technology and screen-based media.
The Stick House
The Stick House is a theatre piece inspired by the magical writing of Angela Carter.
South West Artists Residencies 2011
A residency programme enabling artists based in the South West of England, to develop projects at the intersection of art, technology and culture.Sharon is the Creative Director of immersive theatre company, Raucous. In 2015 the company produced its first show, The Stick House ("the mingling of performance with technology is brilliantly unobtrusive and effective. Cleverly conceived; distinctively different". The Guardian). 2017 saw the company's second show, Ice Road, produced in disused Edwardian baths in Bristol.
Since then she has written and directed with Raucous an immersive binaural sound narrative, The Prick & The Sting, worked on the development of an at-home, table-top experience, The Foundling and, in collaboration with Toronto company Lost & Gone, the AR/live performance narrative, The Lantern Room.
She has been a SWCTN Fellow, A NET Fellow (with Bath Spa University) and a Digital Fellow with the Royal Shakepseare Company and Magic Leap.
Sharon is also a freelance playwright and dramaturg and has worked with Bristol Old Vic, The John Caird Company, the National Theatre Studio, Theatre 503, Watford Palace Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille (Toronto), The Tobacco Factory, the Akram Khan Company, the Arcola, Sherman Cymru and Radio 3 and 4. Her work has been shortlisted for the PapaTango Prize, the Yale Drama Prize and in 2017 she was awarded a Bruntwood Judges Prize.
She is a senior lecturer at UWE in scriptwriting.
As part of the project team for 'Kinship Wayfinder' a project on the More Than AI Sandbox as part of the MyWorld Ideas programme she is currently taking part in a 3 month creative research and development programme where they are prototyping a new concept that creatively and critically explores artificial intelligence.
