i’m a: performance maker
sometime writer
body in space
Hello - I’m Clara (she/they) & I’m an artist working across performance & other sundry disciplines.
I mostly work with Ben Kulvichit as Emergency Chorus (‘Beguiling and enchanting work‘, The Guardian). I also collaborate on other projects in a few different ways: dramaturg, performer, outside eye, writer.
I want the things I make to feel searching, unpredictable, multiple.
The formal bit: I’ve made & shown work with & at places including Warwick Arts Centre, New Diorama, Bristol Old Vic, Cambridge Junction, The North Wall, Camden People’s Theatre & The Yard. Currently based between Bristol & London.
I have an intermittent practice around writing. In 2020, I wrote for the Broccoli Arts newsletter on tempo & growing things.
I’m very interested in collaborating across mediums & forms - get in touch if you’d like to talk!
clara[DOT]potter-sweet[AT]hotmail[DOT]co[DOT]uk / @claraps_
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2023
Poster Boy (WIP)> Camden People’s Theatre, London / 28-29 April
2022
Grant Access @ Soho Drag & Cabaret Lab Showcase> Soho Theatre, London / 5 Dec
Past Works Recycling Plant (hosting)
> Camden People’s Theatre / 13 Nov
All the Barometers in the World
> Emergency Festival, Contact, Manchester / 1 Oct
2021
Mr Jet> Emerge Festival, Warwick Arts Centre / 23 Nov
Sweetener
> Performance Research Network ‘Liveness’ Exhibition / 5 May
2020
Landscape (1989) & Portents by why this sky> Incoming Festival / 22-27 June CANCELLED
(New Diorama, HOME, Tobacco Factory)
dramaturgy
for Two Super Super Hot Men by Alan & Ron
> VAULT Festival / 13-14 March
Landscape (1989)
> Wickham Theatre, Bristol / 19 Feb
Something in Your Voice (R&D & WIP)
> Ferment Fortnight, Bristol Old Vic / 4 Feb
(Bristol Ferment, Cambridge Junction, Sheffield Theatres, Third Angel, New Diorama)
Portents by why this sky
> Camden People’s Theatre / 21-23 Jan
2019
dramaturgy and publicity designfor i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) by Ava Wong Davies
> The Bunker / 12-23 Nov
3 day live-streaming training - Live Lab
> HOME, Manchester / 25-27 Nov
short performance
for Saviour, a living zine night to pop star St Vincent with Act of Zeen
> Camden People’s Theatre / 5 Oct
Mr Jet
> Word of Warning, Emergency Festival, NIAMOS / 21 Sept
guest performer
in the accident did not take place by YESYESNONO
> The Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival Fringe / 20 Aug
Landscape (1989)
> ZOO Venues, Edinburgh Festival Fringe / 2-25 Aug
Portents by why this sky
> Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe / 1-15 Aug
> CLF Art Café, London / 23 July
Saint Somebody (WIP)
> Camden People’s Theatre, London / 5 June
dramaturgy
for i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) (WIP) by Ava Wong Davies
> VAULT Festival, London / 27-28 Feb
Portents by why this sky
> The Space Arts Centre, London / 25 Feb-2 March
Landscape (1989)
> VAULT Festival, London / 13-14 Feb
2018
Landscape (1989)> New Diorama, London / 24-25 Nov
You Have Reached Emergency Chorus
> Beta Public 9, Camden People’s Theatre / 19 Nov
Jane Anger by Anna Himali Howard (WIP)
> Live Drafts Festival, The Yard / 13 Sept
S A F A R I by The Wardrobe Ensemble
> The North Wall / 10-11 Aug
(ArtsLab Summer Residency)
CELEBRATION
> Lyric Hammersmith, London / 2 July
The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes by Ang Kia Yee & Ben Kulvichit
> Warwick University / 17-18 June
2017
CELEBRATION> Emerge Festival, Warwick Arts Centre / 31 Oct
> New Diorama, London / 3-5 Sept
> ZOO Venues, Edinburgh Festival Fringe / 15-28 Aug
> Theatr Clwyd, Mold / 23-24 July
> Incoming Festival, New Diorama, London / 11 June
> National Student Drama Festival, Hull / 10 April
2016
CELEBRATION> Warwick University / 2-3 Dec
WORKSHOPS/TRAINING
Selected for Action Hero’s You Can Be My Wingman residency w/ Rachael Clerke. Mentoring by Karen Christopher. (January 2023)Graduate of Soho Theatre’s Drag & Cabaret Lab, led by Len Blanco (Autumn 2022)
Participant in workshops from Bert & Nasi, Jaz Woodcock-Stewart, Charlie Morrissey, Josh Roche, Kiln Theatre.
Selected for Third Angel’s BOOST Mentoring scheme with Sheffield Theatres (with Emergency Chorus) (2019)
The North Wall ArtsLab Participant for 3x week lab with The Wardrobe Theatre (2018)


︎ Fran Cattaneo & Ben Kulvichit