CLODAGH
CHAPMAN


writer + director

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Theatre
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SELECTED PRODUCTIONS



AS WRITER


Sink | supported by Box of Tricks & HOME Manchester | forthcoming

butterfly | VAULT Festival | 2020
co-writer, associate director (dir. Sam Arbor) & dramaturg


AS WRITER-DIRECTOR

UNCOOL | BFI NETWORK & Little Stitch Productions | forthcoming

LADYFRIENDS [a period drama] | Hope Mill Theatre & touring | 2022-23
venues incl Camden People’s Theatre, Shakespeare North Playhouse & Gloucester Guildhall

First Kiss (With A Girl) | peachy clean zine ((dirty)) | 2020
played in competition at BAFTA-qualifying festivals worldwide


AS DIRECTOR


Limpet | PORTENT | 2025 [R&D]

Swon Lake | The Lowry | 2024 [R&D]

LOB | Contact Theatre & Outburst Arts | 2022
co-directing with Chris P Brown


AS DRAMATURG


Borrowed | Unity Theatre | 2024

DROP IT | Lighthouse Poole & The Lowry | 2022-23 [R&D]


WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE


Future Fashion Forward | National Theatre & The Lowry | Lead Artist | 2024 [audio & installation]
with textile artist Ibukun Baldwin

Monster | National Theatre & The Lowry | Writer, Director & Lead Artist | 2023 [film]
with filmmaker Riley Bramley-Dymond


PUBLICATIONS


Doing Things with Light: On Cinema and MagicOpen City Documentary Festival, London, UK: University College London (2022)


OTHER WORK


SCRIPT READING

Bush Theatre
George Devine Award

PROGRAMMING & CRITICISM

Sheffield DocFest | Programme Adviser | 2022 – pres.
ISPA 2023 Congress | Young Artists Panel | 2023
Open City DocFest | Commissioned Essayist | 2022
BFI Future Film Festival | Submission Previewer | 2022
BFI Film Academy Young Programmer | 2021-22
Young Critic | Almeida Theatre | 2019-21

EVENT HOSTING & CURATION

BFI London Film Festival
Sheffield DocFest
BFI Flare
BFI Future Film Festival
Almeida Theatre
HOME Manchester

TEACHING

University of Salford | BA Theatre & Performance
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama | MA Advanced Theatre Practice

FACILITATION

National Theatre, The Lowry, Royal Exchange Theatre, HOME, BFI, Homotopia, University of Manchester, OUTing The Past, Contact Theatre, The Proud Trust and London Metropolitan Archives.


AWARDS & MEMBERSHIPS


MEMBERSHIPS

BAFTA | Connect Member | Jul. 2023 – pres.
Dramaturgs’ Network | Full Member | Sep. 2020 – pres.

AWARDS
Official Selection at BIFA- and BAFTA-qualifying film festivals
Nominated for the Rising Star Award at Women X Film Festival 2022
Nominated for the Dramaturgs’ Network Fellowship 2024
Shortlisted for the Peter Shaffer Postgraduate Award for Playwriting 2024
Shortlisted for Film4 x New Writing North Genre Feature Lab 2024
Shortlisted for the MGCfutures Bursary 2023
Longlisted for the Orange Tree Writers Collective 2023
Longlisted for the Papatango New Writing Prize 2024
Semi-Finalist for BBC Comedy Collective 2025


EDUCATION & TRAINING


EDUCATION

MA Advanced Theatre Practice (Distinction), Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London
BSc Geography (First Class Hons), University of Bristol
[Graduated with the Qualitative Human Geography Dissertation Prize.]

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Box of Tricks & Rope Ladder Fiction | BoxFresh | 2023
BFI NETWORK, Film Hub North & Aesthetica | Script Lab | 2023
Box of Tricks | Pen Pals | 2022
BFI NETWORK, Film London & Young Vic Theatre | ShortCuts | 2020
Tobacco Factory Theatres | Writers’ Scheme | 2018/19


© 2025 Clodagh Chapman