Rachel Cleverly
Poet Playwright Participation ProducerRachel is a poet, playwright and producer. Cream (flipped eye publishing, forthcoming), her debut pamphlet, uses dry humour to unpick the awkwardness of itching skin.
She is a Barbican Young Poet, and an alumnus of Apples and Snake’s ‘The Writing Room’, BBC Words First and the Soho Theatre Sketch Comedy Lab. Rachel works at The Poetry Society, where she manages the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, the world’s biggest writing competition for young people. She is a trustee of the Arvon Foundation, and is currently Assistant Directing a programme for emerging theatre makers
Credits
Assistant Director, OV Theatremakers Programme, Old Vic, 6 months, 2023-24Playwright, .net, Omnibus Theatre, 1 rehearsed reading, 2023
Training
Barbican Young Poets (Barbican Centre, 2021 - 2023)Excel Core Level 1 (July 2022)
Child Protection and Safeguarding Course (Artswork, May 2022)
Education and Community Board (Old Vic, 2021 - 2022)
OV Theatre Makers (Old Vic, 2021- 2022)
GDPR Training (The DPO Centre, June 2021)
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Coaching (Sarah Pickthall Coaching, May 2020_
The Writing Room (Apples and Snakes, 2019)
Location
LondonExperience
5-10 years
Art forms / Disciplines
- Comedy
- Literature
- Live art
- Multi-disciplinary / cross art form
- Radio/Audio
- Theatre / Live perfomance
What I do
- Dramaturgy
- Editing
- Facilitating
- Producing
- Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
- Working with learning disabled adults / children
- Working with learning disabled artists
- Working with young people
- Working with young people with special educational needs
- Working within a Community / with community participants
- Workshopping & Development
- Writing
