CLODAGH
CHAPMAN


writer + director

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SELECTED PRODUCTIONS



AS WRITER


Sink | in R&D with Just Something Different | dir. Maisie Newman | forthcoming

butterfly | VAULT Festival | dir. Sam Arbor | 2020
co-writer, associate director & 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 [R&D] | PORTENT | 2025

Swon Lake [R&D] | The Lowry | 2024 

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


AS DRAMATURG


Water After Ajax [R&D] | dir. Oliver Hurst | 2025

Golden Time (and Other Behavioural Management Strategies)
| Pleasance Dome | dir. Giulia Grillo | 2025

Borrowed | Unity Theatre | dir. Lauren Tranter | 2024

Drop It [R&D] | Lighthouse Poole | dir. Charlie Norburn | 2023

Drop It [R&D] | The Lowry | wri. Jodie Irvine | 2022


WORK WITH YOUNG PEOPLE


Portal Runners | National Theatre & The Lowry | Lead Artist | 2025 [film]
with Fly Girl Films

Future Fashion Forward | National Theatre & The Lowry | Lead Artist | 2024 [audio & installation]
with textile artist Ibukun Baldwin; also presented at National Theatre Arts Everywhere Symposium - Jul 2025

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


PUBLICATIONS


Interview: Morgan Quaintance, Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK: University College London (2025)

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.
Open City DocFest x Another Gaze | Critics Workshop | 2025
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/MFA 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 - Rising Star Award at Women X Film Festival 2022
Nominated - Dramaturgs’ Network Fellowship 2024
Shortlist - Peter Shaffer Postgraduate Award for Playwriting 2024
Shortlist - Film4 x New Writing North Genre Feature Lab 2024
Shortlist - MGCfutures Bursary 2023
Longlist - Orange Tree Writers Collective 2023
Longlist - Papatango New Writing Prize 2024
Longlist - Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2025
Semi-Finalist - 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
Open City DocFest x Another Gaze | Critics Workshop | 2025
Box of Tricks x 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