Clare Slater

Clare was previously Artistic Director and CEO of HighTide; Head of New Work at the Donmar Warehouse, where she worked on over 30 productions, including  The Trials  by Dawn King;  Love and Other Acts of Violence  by Cordelia Lynn;  Assembly  by Nina Segal;  Blindness  adapted by Simon Stephens;  [BLANK]  by Alice Birch;  Appropriate  by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins;  Berberian Sound Studio  adapted by Joel Horwood;  Sweat  by Lynn Nottage;  Silence  by Sonali Bhattacharyya, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Ishy Din and Alexandra Wood;  Force Majeure  adapted by Tim Price;  The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui  in a new version by Bruce Norris;  Limehouse  by Steve Waters;  The Lady from the Sea  in a new version by Elinor Cook; and  Becoming  by Michelle Terry and Rosalie Craig.
Other writing and dramaturg credits include:  Women in Power  dir. Blanche McIntyre (Nuffield, Southampton);  The Unknown Island  dir. Ellen McDougall,  Meet Your Neighbours  dir. Emily Lim,  Here’s How It All Began  dir. Christopher Haydon,  Idomeneus  dir. Ellen McDougall (all for the Gate, Notting Hill); and  The Last Mermaid  dir. Bruce Guthrie with Charlotte Church (Wales Millennium Centre).
Clare previously worked as Executive Director of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill and, prior to that, she was the Assistant Literary Manager at the National Theatre and worked in TV and film development with Rare Day.  She also sits on the Creative Council of Shakespeare’s Globe.