Personal Details

Work Sought:

Welcomes stage play commissions (original work and adaptations).
Happy to participate or lead workshops on the craft of playwriting.
Enjoys working co-operatively with theatre companies.

Claire Booker cut her theatrical teeth at The South London Theatre, first as an actor and later as a member of the writers’ circle. She has written twenty stage dramas, which have received more than fifty separate productions by professional and amateur theatre companies across the world, from the UK to Australia, Spain, Romania and France. Her work includes one act and full length comedies, hard-hitting dramas and adaptations of the classics. A number have been translated into Spanish and French. She has also had radio plays broadcast on BBC Radio Four and local UK radio stations.

Recognition of her work includes winning The Douglas Clarke Award; coming first in The Leicestershire Playwriting Competition twice; third place in The Wandsworth All London Literary Competition twice; runner-up in The Southampton International Playwriting Festival; being nominated for a Writers’ Guild of Great Britain MacAllan Award; being short-listed for The Arts Council of Great Britain’s John Whiting Award, being short-listed for the Drama Association of Wales Playwriting Competition, and being nominated three times for The George Taylor Award.

She has designed and run creative writing workshops and adjudicated play writing competitions for a number of organisations, including The Greyshott & Hindhead Literary Festival, Nottingham and Notts Drama Association and The South London Theatre.

Her commissions have included a one act play for The Festival Fringe Theatre Company; an abridgement of Prophesy to the Wind by Norman Nicholson for The South London Theatre; a full length drama for The Bunbury Theatre Company; a devised piece for Mind’s Eye Theatre, and three short television plays for The Mountview Theatre School.

Reviews of her plays include:
"Finely written. Astutely observed characters." The Independent.
"A fully-rounded drama by highly-regarded writer, Claire Booker." The Guardian.
"Compelling. One of the highlights of the Fringe," The Sunday Times.
"Cleverly constructed, with strong characters," The Stage.
"Compulsive watching." The Scotsman.
"Superb material. That rare gem, a genuinely funny feminist play." Amateur Stage.
"A tightly written and engrossing new play, recommended." Time Out.