i’m a:         performance maker
                     interdisciplinary artist
                             

Hello - I’m Clara (they/them) & I’m an artist working across performance & other sundry disciplines. 

I work in partnership with Ben Kulvichit as experimental performance duo 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 Battersea Arts Centre, Bristol Old Vic, Cambridge Junction, Warwick Arts Centre, New Diorama, The North Wall, Camden People’s Theatre & The Yard. Currently based between Bristol & London.

I’ve taught and run workshops at places including Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Warwick University, Bedales School, and am currently teaching on The Wardrobe Ensemble’s theatre-making BA at Bristol School of Acting.

I’m a proud member of Interval Artist Collective. We share knowledge and resources at The Exchange, Corn Street.

I’m very interested in collaborating across mediums & forms - get in touch if you’d like to talk!

find me:
clara[DOT]potter-sweet[AT]hotmail[DOT]co[DOT]uk

@apollohelo on Instagram

@claraps_ on X

︎ Ruby Turner, Jemima Yong, Zbigniew Kotkiewicz

2025

Ways of Knowing
> Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Festival Fringe / 31 July - 24 Aug

Ways of Knowing
> New Diorama, London / 16-17 July

Reading and Writing (support for Yas Clarke’s The Thicket)
> Arnolfini, Bristol / 21 June

Past Works Recycling Plant #4
> Scratch Renaissance at Chisenhale Dance Space, London / 30 May

Ways of Knowing
> Battersea Arts Centre, London / 3 May

Container by Alan Fielden
> New Diorama, London / 2-12 April

Container: Special Edition by Alan Fielden
> National Poetry Library at the South Centre, London / 30 Jan

2024

Reading and Writing
> Tough Sell, The Cube, Bristol / 5 Oct

Reading and Writing
> Emergency Festival, Contact Theatre, Manchester / 28 Sept

Past Works Recycling Plant #3
> The Cube, Bristol / 18 Sept

Reading and Writing
> Perpetually Stew, Cloak, Bristol / 5 Sept

runway by Alan Fielden
> TACO!, London / 20 July

Past Works Recycling Plant #2
> Chisenhale Dance Space, London / 13 June

The Dance of Professionalisation for Survival, with Rachael Clerke
> Art Business Ltd Hard Launch, Centrespace, Bristol / 6 April

Five Acts by Young In Hong
> Spike Island, Bristol / preview 2 Feb, various dates Feb-Apr

Landscape (1989)
> Exeter Phoenix / 23 Jan
> Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol / 24 Jan

2023

Ways of Knowing
> Camden People’s Theatre / 30 Nov-2 Nov

Ways of Knowing: two dances w/ Will Hazell
> online / 6 Nov

Landscape (1989)
> Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry / 1 Nov
> Nonsuch Studios, Nottingham / 2 Nov

Container by Alan Fielden
> Camden People’s Theatre / 16 Sept
> The Cube, Bristol / 19 Sept

Poster Boy (WIP) by Lou Doyle, dir. me
> Camden People’s Theatre, London / 28-29 April

cameo performance in Trash Salad by Rosa Garland
> Loco Klub, Bristol / 11-12 April

2022

Grant Access @ Soho Drag & Cabaret Lab Showcase
> Soho Theatre, London / 5 Dec

Past Works Recycling Plant #1
> Camden People’s Theatre / 13 Nov

All the Barometers in the World (WIP)
> 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 design
for 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

One of 3 artists selected for Tales of Two Cities - a cultural exchange between Bristol’s Mayfest and Cork’s Midsummer Festival (June 2024)

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 Tim Crouch, Jaz Woodcock-Stewart, Bert & Nasi, 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)