Abby Clarke

Costume Design

Abby is a theatre designer and practitioner. She trained in Performance Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, was a finalist at the 2024 Offie awards for both Set and Costume design for Unfortunate, was nominated as ‘Best Designer’ for the The Stage Debut Awards 2019, and was a finalist in the 2017 Linbury Prize for Stage Design.

Some of Abby’s design credits include: Unfortunate - The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch (Southwark Playhouse & National Tour), In the Ruins of the Big House (Factory International), The Jolly Christmas Postman (Royal & Derngate Theatre), The Owl Who Came for Christmas (Leicester Curve); Beauty and The Beast (Theatre By The Lake); As You Write It (Shakespeare North Playhouse); Abida Parveen (The Lowry); Alphabus (Manchester International Festival); The Bear Who Went To War (regional tour), The Show Windows (Coventry City of Culture); Road (Leicester Curve); The Allesley Silas (Belgrade Theatre); Read All About It (Belgrade Theatre); In the Meantime We Try (Belgrade Theatre); An Evening With… (Shakespeare North Playhouse); Bird in the Window (UK tour); The Furies (Oxford Playhouse); Living Together (Oxford Playhouse); The Witching Way (Royal Exchange); Luminosity (HOME Theatre); Prince Gorge (Camden People’s Theatre); Dia-Beat-Es (UK tour); HMS Pinafore (Minack Theatre); Humans At Work (Warwick Arts Centre); SWIM (HOME Theatre); Our Friends in the North (HOME Theatre)

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