Rachel Cleverly is a Rachel is a poet, playwright and producer. She currently works at the National Literacy Trust, where she manages Inside Stories with Audible.
She is a Barbican Young Poet, and an alumnus of Apples and Snake’s ‘The Writing Room’, BBC Words First and the Soho Theatre Sketch Comedy Lab. She is an Assistant Director and Dramaturg at the Old Vic in the Community team, where she works with emerging theatre makers. She is a trustee of the Arvon Foundation, has delivered workshops and events with the National Centre for Writing, The Poetry Society and the Southbank Centre, as well as working as a reader for the Women’s Prize for Playwriting and Paines Plough. She recently curated an evening of love poetry, read by actors, performed in Somerset House.
Her debut pamphlet, Prickle, is forthcoming with flipped eye publishing.
Rachel lives, writes and programmes from South London. She is available for commissions, performances and residencies.
For more information, contact rachelsnc@btinternet.com
Photography by Lola Webster.