Clare Prenton
www.clareprenton.com
Experienced director, writer, lyricist with over 26+ years experience at mid to large scale, rep/West End/touring. Writer Men Don't Talk (play/Scottish Tour), Holding On (musical theatre with Craig Adams/Creative Scotland development), Butterflies - a new musical with Zoë Bestel, Finding Mary (play). Fundraising and Trustee/Board experience. Based Edinburgh/Scottish Borders. Open to collaborations! Creative producer training. New company Dragonfly Theatre Productions launched 2025.
Directing credits: Theatre, Musical Theatre, Opera, new writing (comedy), open air Shakespeare, site specific. Experience with writers Shakespeare, Ayckbourn, Orton, Pinter, Ionesco and new writing. Credits include: Play, Pie and a Pint; Stafford Festival Shakespeare Director (3 yrs), English Touring Opera (2 yrs), British Shakespeare Company (3 yrs), Pitlochry Festival Theatre (2 yrs), Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough; (Ayckbourn's associate 2008-14); Cumbernauld; Traverse. Teaching experience 3-18s and undergraduate/postgraduate Conservatoire experience (Mountview, Arts Educational, RCS). Associate, Staff Director experience for Regents Park Open Air Theatre, English Touring Opera.
Touring experience with Stephen Joseph Theatre (UK tours), English Touring Opera, Tete a Tete Opera. Whitehorse (English Speaking) Theatre of Germany, C Theatre/English Speaking Theatre of Poland. Mentored by FST scheme/Traverse Theatre (2019) Future Leaders Course (2014) National Theatre of Great Britain Director's Course (2000).
Experienced director, writer, lyricist with over 26+ years experience at mid to large scale, rep/West End/touring. Writer Men Don't Talk (play/Scottish Tour), Holding On (musical theatre with Craig Adams/Creative Scotland development), Butterflies - a new musical with Zoë Bestel, Finding Mary (play). Fundraising and Trustee/Board experience. Based Edinburgh/Scottish Borders. Open to collaborations! Creative producer training. New company Dragonfly Theatre Productions launched 2025.
Directing credits: Theatre, Musical Theatre, Opera, new writing (comedy), open air Shakespeare, site specific. Experience with writers Shakespeare, Ayckbourn, Orton, Pinter, Ionesco and new writing. Credits include: Play, Pie and a Pint; Stafford Festival Shakespeare Director (3 yrs), English Touring Opera (2 yrs), British Shakespeare Company (3 yrs), Pitlochry Festival Theatre (2 yrs), Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough; (Ayckbourn's associate 2008-14); Cumbernauld; Traverse. Teaching experience 3-18s and undergraduate/postgraduate Conservatoire experience (Mountview, Arts Educational, RCS). Associate, Staff Director experience for Regents Park Open Air Theatre, English Touring Opera.
Touring experience with Stephen Joseph Theatre (UK tours), English Touring Opera, Tete a Tete Opera. Whitehorse (English Speaking) Theatre of Germany, C Theatre/English Speaking Theatre of Poland. Mentored by FST scheme/Traverse Theatre (2019) Future Leaders Course (2014) National Theatre of Great Britain Director's Course (2000).
Org Type: Producing Company/Individual, Education/Training
Work Produced: Opera, Theatre
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Website: https://www.clareprenton.com