Clare’s short drama ‘The Lemon Tree’ was broadcast on the UK’s Channel 4 and her promenade performance piece A Progress Report, runner up for the Marlowe Society’s Other Prize, was performed in 2015 in St James Church, Muswell Hill, London. She has been a Judge for the Humboldt and Indiana Film Festivals, and has given masterclasses in screenwriting, playwriting, and film directing. Her prose fiction short story ‘Jupiters Moons’ was recently selected for a masterclass at the UK’s National Writers Workshop. 

Since 2013 she has taught and examined playwriting as part of the B.Ed. tripos at the University of Cambridge; and a core curriculum option on film history as an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of History.

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selected FILMOGRAPHY 

2023   BOY Spec  

Writer-producer. Feature film based on John Allen's 2008 authorised biography Rabble Rouser for Peace.

2021 OLGA Factor Six Films

Writer. Prod: Michael Robinson. Feature film based on the memoirs of Marie-Therese Browne (white) about her devout Catholic Jamaican unmarried mother Olga (coloured) in pre- and post-Windrush Britain.

2019   BURNT SHADOWS New Sparta Films

Writer. Exec Prod: Sheryl Crown. Prod: Chris Simon. Dir: Richie Mehta. Feature film, 6-part miniseries, 3-part miniseries based on the 2013 novel by Kamila Shamsie.

2015   UNQUEENED MGR Films
Writer. Prods: Michael Robinson, Naomi Despres, Bob Salerno
Feature film based on the life of Queen Caroline, the injured wife and later nemesis of George IV.

2013  A PROGRESS REPORT (play)

Writer. Prods: Peterson Feital, Shaka Bunsie, Ian Whitehead. A riff on Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress for site-specific promenade performance in St James' Church, Muswell Hill, London. Runner up for the Marlowe Society's The Other Prize.

2009   MY PATH LEADS TO TIBET Robson Entertainment

Writer. Feature film based on the best-selling memoir of blind German pioneer for the Tibetan blind, Sabriye Tenberken

2008   SHUTTERBABE Likely Story
Writer. Prod: Anthony Bregman. Feature film based on the best-selling witty memoir of photojournalist Deborah Kopaken Cogan.

2007  THE UNRULY QUEEN Fox Searchlight
Writer. Prods: Lindsay Law, Michael Stremel, Patricia Krujer, Sasha Harare. Feature film, the ‘sequel’ to the ‘Madness of King George’, based on the best-selling biography by Flora Fraser.

2004   NAPLES 44 Film Four  
Writer. Prods: Pete Czernin, Graham Broadbent, Damian Jones; Exec prods: Paul Webster; Elinor Day; Director: Damian O’Donnell. Feature film based on the memoir by Norman Lewis.

2002  THE SEA CHANGE Canal + 
Writer and associate producer. Prods: Kristin Scott Thomas, Eleanor Coleman, Michael Foster; starring Kristin Scott Thomas. Feature film based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

1999   BIRDSONG The Bridge/Sony
Writer. Prods: Kevin Loader, Jonathan Darby, Simon Relph; Dir. Michael White. Feature film based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks

1997  THE STORY OF V Disney/Dogstar   

Writer. Prods: Matia Karrell, Betsy Beers, Mike Newell, Alan Greenspan;  Dir. Mike Newell. Feature film based on the life of East German dissident Vera Wollenberger, whose husband was her Stasi ‘spy’.

1996  GIRLS IN THE FOREST (AKA ’LOST’) New Line Cinema/Spelling
Writer. Prods: Renny Harlin, Geena Davis, Amanda Stern; Dir: Roger Deakins. Feature film about two 13 year-old girls who survive the Amazon rainforest, based on original research, with the involvement of Oxford Scientific Films.

1995  THE GIRAFFE Granada Film

Writer. Prods: Janette Day, Pippa Cross; Dir: Peter Hewitt. Feature film based on the furore caused by the first Giraffe brought to Europe in the 18th century.

1994  OF THE FARM J. R. Prods   

Writer, attached as director. Prods: Steve Whitney, David Selby, Jamie Beardsley; based on the 1965 autobiographical novel by John Updike.

 1990  ONE NIGHT WITH VIVIEN Spec
Writer. Optioned by Miles Millar and Al Gough; Original screenplay about Vivien Leigh's night on the town in 1953 communist Zagreb.

1992  FLOURY FINGERS Spec

Writer. Three generations of women, one house, one war. Original screenplay nominated by British Screen for the International Screenwriters Studio.

1990  THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CANAL Spec

Writer. Original screenplay optioned by Dogstar films; the Sandinista revolution meets a village in Northamptonshire, winner of the Eleanor Perry Award from Women in Film.

1990  THE LEMON TREE

Writer-director. 16mm dramatic short (20 mins), winner of the Prix des Comites des Fetes (Mesnil-le-Roi Film festival, Paris) and Certificate of Merit (Malta Golden Knight Film Festival).