Alex River Clarke

Alex Clarke is an Irish/Manc writer for film, TV, stage and radio. She won the BBC’s Alfred Bradley Award with her radio drama WAKING BEAUTY and a New Writing North TV Drama Award with BELOW that later went into development with C4 and Bonafide Films. Her first short film CLAW 2022 was funded by Earls Court Film Festival and produced by Dyspla Productions using volumetric filming techniques and is being adapted into a V.R. Alex is currently in development with Warp Films with her new dramady THE KING OF CONS developed on the BBC’s Northern Voices Scheme 2022. She is also in development with the BBC and Dancing Ledge Productions with her original TV drama REFUGE. She is currently writing SEX THERAPY also created during the BBC Northern Voices Scheme.

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AWARDS/COMP WINS
Radio – WAKING BEAUTY – BBC’s Alfred Bradley Award (2019)
TV – BELOW – The New Writing North TV Drama Writing Award (2017)
THEATRE – OUR KID JESUS – Winner of 24:7 Theatre Festival’s Next Big Idea Event (2013)
THEATRE – SECONDS – Writer’s Avenue – Winner of ‘The First 20 Minutes’, ‘The Next Stage’ and ‘The Final Stage’ Playwriting competitions (2011/2013)
Link to website: https://alexriverclarke.co.uk/alexclarkescreenwriter/

Threads: https://www.threads.net/@alex.river.clarkes

CV

TELEVISION

PRODUCTION COMPANY STATUS ROLE
KING OF CONS WARP FILMS In Development Writer
REFUGE DANCING LEDGE PRODUCTIONS & BBC In Development Writer
HOW TO BE AUTISITIC ADAPTED PICTIRES & BFI Complete Writer
BELOW BONAFIDE FILMS & C4 Complete Writer

STAGE

PRODUCTION COMPANY STATUS ROLE
SISTERS OF THE MIDNIGHT BERRIES Salford Art’s Theatre (2019) Complete Director
MY NAME IS HUNGER The Salon Collective (2013) Complete Writer
OUR KID JESUS The Salon Collective (2013) Complete Writer
DANCING DOG GETS A CREDIT CARD Writer’s Avenue (2013) Complete Writer
THE CRUCIFIXION OF MADELINE MACKAY (or WHAT THE OWL MAN KNEW AND THE GIRL FOUND OUT) Missfit Productions (2019) Complete Writer