About
I am an actor, writer, director, filmmaker, and poet and a settler living in Kjipuktuk / Halifax, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaq people.
I am interested in artistic practice as a site for critical thought, community, and difficult dialogue. Place-making and community building are at the core of my work, and I’m particularly interested in highlighting queer and trans stories in theatre and film.
My poetry has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Thimble Literary Magazine, Mxogyny, Yolk Literary Magazine, and other journals, and my 2019 chapbook Light Leaks is published with Dancing Girl Press.
In March 2020, my play Will You Taste Our Blood, a feminist adaptation of Euripedes’ The Bacchae, premiered at King’s. Local theatre critic Amanda Campbell wrote of the production, “it is clear from [Clarke’s] eloquent monologues that Clarke is a talented writer and a playwright of promise.” In May 2020, I received an Art Apart grant from the National Theatre School, with which I created and directed a film-based documentary theatre production about loneliness and community care. My short documentary film Lovers: an ode to queer connection in pandemic times (2021) won best LGBTQ Short at the Paris International Short Festival and was a semi-finalist at festivals in Vancouver, London, and Vienna. Alongside “Lovers,” I directed a music video for T. Thomason’s cover of Lovers in a Dangerous Time, which was nominated for Best Director by the East Coast Music Association. My one-person play, can you remember how we got here? premiered at OutFest at the Bus Stop Theatre in April 2022. I was apprentice director on Neptune Theatre’s production of The Rocky Horror Show in April 2022.
I have a BA in Psychology and Contemporary Studies at the University of King's College as a LORAN scholar.
My honours thesis, "The Home to Prison Pipeline: the Creation of Women "Criminals" Through Racist, Heteropatriarchal Relations of Power" was awarded first prize in the Contemporary Studies Department at King's.