Creatives | Bethan Clark

Bethan Clark

Fight Director / Intimacy Coordinator

Bethan is a Fight Director working in theatre and film and a Senior Teacher with the British Academy of Dramatic Combat. She combines her work as a fight practitioner with intimacy direction and coordination.  

She trained initially as an actor on the MA Classical Acting at Drama Centre and BA Drama at Exeter University. She worked in the industry  for a number of years before moving into fight direction and teaching.  Additionally, she has extensive experience as an applied drama workshop facilitator and worked in prisons for 5 years using drama as a creative and explorative outlet. 

This combined industry experience and drama facilitation background informs her work and provides the foundation of her practice: inclusivity, kindness, supported challenge, collaboration and creativity. 

Bethan has worked extensively around the UK and has had the pleasure of working with venues and companies such as The National Theatre & Clean Break (Dixon and Daughters), Northern Broadsides (As You Like It), Leicester Curve (My Beautiful Laundrette), Northern Stage (The Last Ship - UK and International Tour), Theatr Clwyd & Sherman Theatre (Lord of the Flies), Royal and Derngate & Theatre Royal Stratford East (Our Lady of Kibeho), Liverpool Everyman (Our Lady of Blundellsands and Othello), Queens Hornchurch, Hull Truck & Oldham Coliseum (The Hired Man) and York Theatre Royal (A View from the Bridge).

Theatre

Cowbois (RSC); The Odyssey (NT Public Acts); The Swell (Orange Tree Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chichester Festival Theatre); Dixon and Daughters (National Theatre & Clean Break); Terrore E Miseria Del III Reich (Milan); Snowflakes (Park Theatre); The Witness (Avant Cymru); My Brother's Keeper (Theatre 503); Hex (National Theatre); The Lavender Hill Mob (UK Tour); The Prince (Southwark Playhouse); Macbeth (Avant Cymru); Marvin's Binoculars (The Unicorn Theatre); As You Like It (Northern Broadsides & New Vic Theatre); The Bolds (The Unicorn Theatre); Our Lady of Blundellsands (Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse); The Effect (English Theatre Frankfurt), Macbeth (Queens Theatre Hornchurch & Derby Playhouse); The Last Ship (UK Tour); Night, Mother (Hampstead Theatre); Faustus, That Damned Woman (Lyric Hammersmith).

Feature Film

Dashcam (Blumhouse Productions); Bull (Plastic Fish (Bull) Ltd c/o Tea Shop Productions)

Short Film

Kill Your Lover (Switchblade Cinema); Frank (National Theatre Wales); Thursday (MetFilm); The Last Union (Ardvale Films); Sift, Simmer, Shred (Studio 206); Redcap (MetFilm), The Last Days (Tannahill Productions)