Suzy Willson
Suzy is co-founder and artistic director of the Clod Ensemble and has directed
all its productions to date and leads its education programme. She graduated
from Manchester University in 1992 before studying with Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
She has worked as movement director on productions at the Gate, BAC, on Arnaud
Desplechin’s film Esther Khan, with performance poet Malika B and Apples
& Snakes poetry. She teaches drama and movement to students, actors, musicians
and doctors. She is currently Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of
London. She also directs shows for designer Jessica Ogden for London Fashion
Week.
Paul Clark
Paul has written original scores for all the company's productions to date.
Elsewhere he has written chamber operas including The Weather Man
(Opera North 2004/5), liebeslied/mysuicides (ICA/Genesis Foundation
2004), Clock Opera (WNO 2003), and has composed new scores for Beckett's
Cascando and Words and Music (RTE Dublin 2006). He has composed
many concert works, notable his three Guitar Trios, which have been performed
serveral times across the country by the London Guitar Trio. He has written
dozens of scores for theatre, from the fringe to the National Theatre, for
directors including Katie Mitchell, David Farr, Jonathon Holloway and Uzma
Hameed. He has also written for film and TV, for directors including Arnaud
Desplechin and Emily Young. He worked with a huge range of other artists including
Apples and Snakes Poets, DJ Dangermouse and the Fall. Awards include an Arts
Foundation fellowship in 1999.
