Production Dramaturg, The Copper Children

Jocelyn Clarke is a freelance dramaturg, writer, and an associate artist with The Civilians and Theatre Mitu in New York. He’s been Commissioning and Literary Manager of the Abbey Theatre, lead theatre critic with The Sunday Tribune, and has taught dramaturgy at the Kennedy Center, Columbia University and Trinity College, Dublin. 

Adaptations: Chess Match No. 5, Bob, Room, Score, Antigone, Trojan Women (after Euripides) for Anne Bogart and the SITI Company; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, At Swim Two Birds, The Poor Mouth, The First Cosmonaut, Shackleton (Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, Sligo, Ireland); Finn (Mabou Mines); Neil Gaiman’s The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish (The Ark); The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest (Corcadorca Theatre Company in Cork, Ireland); The Little Deer, The Crimson Fly, The Swan Children (Abbey Theatre). He is currently working on a new adaptation of Elizabeth Swados’ The Beautiful Lady, which will premiere at La MaMa Theatre in New York in May.

Affiliations: Theatre Adviser to the Arts Council of Ireland; senior dramaturg at Arena Stage in D.C.