Clare Lizzimore

Clare Lizzimore (born 1980) is a British theatre director and writer. Her production of 'Bull' by Mike Bartlett, won the 'Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre' at the 2015 Olivier Awards. Lizzimore has been resident director at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, and staff director at the Royal National Theatre.

Background

Lizzimore was born in Watford. She studied Film and Drama at Reading University, and also gained an MA in Advanced Theatre practice at The Central School of Speech and Drama. She became a professional Theatre director in 2005 when she left the BBC to produce Duncan Macmillan’s 'The Most Humane Way to Kill a Lobster'.

Career highlights

Lizzimore won the 2005 Channel 4 Directors Award and became resident director at The Glasgow Citizens Theatre where her production of 'Tom Fool' by Franz Xaver Kroetz was nominated for four CATS Awards, for Best director, Best Male performance, Best Female performance, and Best Design. It transferred to the Bush Theatre in 2007. In 2008 Lizzimore became the associate director at Out of Joint and co-directed The Mother by Mark Ravenhill, with Max-Stafford Clark, at The Royal Court theatre. She won the Arts Foundation Theatre Directing Fellowship for Innovation in 2009. Lizzimore is well known for directing premiers of new writing including 'Jonah and Otto' by Robert Holman at The Royal Exchange Manchester, Faces in The Crowd by Leo Butler at The Royal Court Theatre and 'One Day When We were Young' by Nick Payne as part of the Paines Plough/Sheffield Roundabout Season.

In recent years she has also become known for her writing, her play 'Mint' went on at the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs At The Royal Court.

Her radio play 'Missing in Action' aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2014, and was play of the week.