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i’m a:         performance maker
                     interdisciplinary artist
                       tentative tune-writer                              



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), and have done since 2016. I have a strong teaching/facilitating practice in performance and academic spaces, alongside dramaturgy/outside eye work. Communication, collaboration and big-picture-thinking are important parts of all creative work I undertake! I perform much of my own work, as well as appearing in/co-creating other people’s projects.

I am currently exploring a practice of writing folk tunes in the shapenote tradition, under the mentorship of some excellent singers and songwriters. 

Alan Fielden, Jemima Yong, Rachael Clerke, YESYESNONO, The Wardrobe Ensemble, Young In Hong, Yas Clarke, why this sky. 

Interests/ideas that make themselves known in my work: Networks, signs, signals, patterns, crisis, communication, urgency. Work, survival, collapse, breakdown. DIY, the analogue, the weird. Tenderness and bleakness in equal measure.
A formal bit: I’ve made and shown my work with/at organisations including Battersea Arts Centre, Bristol Old Vic, Cambridge Junction, New Diorama,  the Arnolfini, Warwick Arts Centre, Exeter Phoenix, The North Wall, Camden People’s Theatre & The Yard. I’m a member of Interval Artist Collective in Bristol.

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

write to me: ︎ clara[DOT]potter-sweet[AT]hotmail[DOT]co[DOT]uk
︎ @apollohelo on Instagram
[dog-minding during a performance of TOWN CRIERS at Regents Roots Festival, 2023]

︎ Ruby Turner, Jemima Yong, Zbigniew Kotkiewicz



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2026

residency with Jon Davies/Kepla Music
> Full of Noises, Barrow / 4-6 Sept

dramaturgy for As Far As We Know by YESYESNONO
> Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe / 06 - 31 Aug

Ways of Knowing
> Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol / 21 - 23 Apr
> Exeter Phoenix / 20 Apr
> Cambridge Junction / 18 - 19 Mar

Past Works Recycling Plant #5
> Scratch Renaissance @ Chisenhale Dance Space, London / 23 Jan

2025

The Thicket by Yas Clarke
> NAWR, Swansea / 08 Nov

Past Works Recycling Plant: Special Edition w/ Deborah Pearson
> The Cube, Bristol / 05 Nov

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

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

Reading and Writing
> Arnolfini, Bristol / 21 June

Past Works Recycling Plant #4
> Scratch Renaissance @ 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 @ Southbank Centre, London / 30 Jan

2024

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

director of Poster Boy by Lou Doyle,
> 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
> 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 for i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) by Ava Wong Davies
> The Bunker / 12-23 Nov

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
> Camden People’s Theatre, London / 5 June

dramaturgy for i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) 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
> 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 / 4-5 Dec



WORKSHOPS/TRAINING

Selected for Tales of Two Cities, a cultural exchange programme 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); Live Lab, a live-streaming training led by HOME, Manchester (2019); The North Wall ArtsLab for 3-week residency with The Wardrobe Theatre (2018).

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 (2019)


[derigging stalactites after WAYS OF KNOWING at Battersea Arts Centre, 2025] [in rehearsals for CONTAINER at New Diorama Theatre, 2025]



︎ Ben Kulvichit, Jona Headon
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