Clare Bayley has written extensively for theatre and radio. She is currently under commission to write a 60-minute play for BBC Radio 4.
Her adaptation of George Sand’s Gabriel was performed as part of Oxford Playhouse Plays Out in May 2022. Other plays include After The Peace (longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize 2019), Family Trees (readings at Bolton Octagon 2019 and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough), The Enchantment (National Theatre, London 2007) and The Container (Fringe First and Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2007, productions in Edinburgh, London, Cardiff, Toronto, Melbourne, Rome, Baltimore and Raleigh North Carolina).
Clare also writes for radio (In The Van, The Secret Place, Portobello Beach).
Clare is co-author with Fraser Grace of Playwriting: A Writer’s and Artist’s Companion (Bloomsbury 2015). She is a fellow of the HEA and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow.
As an arts journalist and theatre critic she has written for The Independent, The Guardian, Time Out and is former Theatre Editor of The Independent.
