Bev Clark
Playwright, Theatre Director, Drama Adjudicator and Poet.
After forty years of working in both professional and Community Theatre, Bev is now retired but still writing and undertaking the occasional adjudication or directing project. Based on the Wirral, she has had an extensive career working all over England including the Bristol Old Vic, The Palace Theatre (Essex), Action Transport Theatre (Cheshire).
In 2011 she was presented to Her Majesty The Queen for her work with young people in the Arts.
As a Goda adjudicator she worked across UK and abroad and with Noda as a drama facilitator at Warwick University and The Gaity Theatre IOM creating challenging pieces for both.
As an Artistic Director she has run two successful companies: Hand in Hand Theatre (2008-2018) and Bus Stop Productions (2019 -2024) - one of the highlights being her production of The Winter’s Tale when chosen to represent the northwest performing at RSC Stratford Upon Avon (2015).
Her production of The Regina Monologues was the winner of the Cheshire Drama festival (2024).
Other award- winning directing credits include - All Along the River (Capital of Culture 2008), The Importance of Being Ernest (2010), The Flood (2010), The Crucible (2013), Festival of War, Peace Remembrance (2014), Ladies in Bonnets (2017 - adapted from Jane Austen) and Before the Sun Goes Dark (2019 - writer/director).
Stagescripts now publishes many of her plays – 'One Acts' that have had successful festival journeys via AETF and NDFA winning many awards along the way, including:
- Remembrance Day (2008) - winner of Leverhulme drama Festival with subsequent productions by companies throughout the remembrance commemorations 2014-2018.
- Bentley: Road to Justice (2011) - Leverhulme runner-up, quarter finals /semi-finals, The Black Eyes (2015) - winner of Roister-Doister playwriting competition and Birmingham festival (continually performed by youth groups since, including in Ireland and Pakistan).
- RIP Mr. Shakespeare (2016) - co-written with Keith Hill was a Northern finalist at the English final with many subsequent performances in UK and internationally.
Her most produced play, Baggage (2017) - has won awards at Leverhulme and Welwyn festivals (2019) and been performed across UK and Ireland including the Liverpool Irish festival
