Anna Clock (they/them) is an artist, composer and musician, based in London. Their work spans theatre, film, radio, installation, written texts and live music. Their practice is centred on ways of listening, and challenging audiences to listen to each other, and their world, in new ways. They play the cello and also cut hair.
They have presented work at theatres, galleries and venues including The Royal Court Theatre, Wellcome Collection, Royal Exchange Theatre, The Albany, Camden People’s Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Soho Theatre, V & A Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, Brixton House, Project Arts Centre, Harrow & Wealdstone Library, Copeland Gallery, Cooper Gallery, UC San Diego, Mainz Staatstheater, and a range of site specific locations across the UK, Ireland and Germany.
Their audio works have been played on Radio 4, Radio 3, Resonance FM and RTE Lyric radio.
Their compositions have been played by ensembles such as RTE Contempo Quartet, Tonnta, New Dublin Voices, Kirkos Ensemble, Node Ensemble, Dulciana, Gamelan Nua and Téada Orchestra, and as a musician they have collaborated with Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, Woven Skull, Hozier, David Lacey, Gavin Prior, David Turpin, Emma O’Reilly and others.
They also cut hair, offering affordable gender-neutral hairdressing in the queer community. They studied at Trinity College Dublin where they received the Gerard Victory award for outstanding achievement in composition, the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.
2024
HYPNOS WITH AGIT-CIRK - THEATRE / CIRCUS
Composer & Sound Artist (Helsinki, June 2024)
DUCHESS OF MALFI BY JOHN WEBSTER - THEATRE
Composer (Shakespeare’s Globe, Jan - Apr 2024).
THE FAITH HEALER BY BRIAN FRIEL - THEATRE
Composer & Sound Designer (Lyric Hammersmith, Mar - Apr 2024).
A FAMILY BUSINESS BY CHRIS THORPE - THEATRE
Composer & Sound Designer (Mainz Staatstheater & European tour Jan - Mar 2024).
MACHLOKET - PODCAST
Composer (Take Stock Exchange productions).
ORGANISM COLLECTIVE - SYMBIOSIS COMMISSION - DIGITAL ART / CREATIVE CODING
Group commission to create an interdisciplinary digital art piece with 4 other artists around the theme of symbiosis. Displayed in digital gallery from April 2024.
2023
BANGS DIR. ALEXANDER COGGIN - FILM
Composer
LAY DOWN YOUR BURDENS BY RHIANNON FAITH COMPANY - DANCE
Devising performer, live musician & Sound Designer (Barbican, Nov 2023)
UMBRA - ALBUM
EP released on Fort Evil Fruit records as cassette and digital release, Oct 2023.
HOTHOUSE WITH MALAPROP THEATRE - THEATRE
Composer, Musical Director & Sound Designer (Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Sept 2023).
JASON MEDEA MEDLEY BY JAZ WOODCOCK-STEWART & COMPANY - THEATRE
Composer, Musical Director & Sound Designer (Staatsschauspiel Dresden, premier June 2023)
HELLO STRANGER X TRANS GAZE - INSTALLATION / SCULPTURE
Lead artist & curator for the South London region of the UK’s National Exhibition Project for the Prague Quadrennial 2023. Workshop series & installation at The Albany & Deptford Lounge, Feb - Apr 2023 & exhibit at Prague Quadrennial, June 2023.
LET DOWN REFLEX / LIQUID GOLD - FILM
Musical composition for installation and film by Ilana Harris-Babou, commissioned by the Wellcome Collection for their MILK exhibition and displayed as part of Times Square Arts Midnight Moments (Wellcome Collection, UK March - Sept; Times Square, USA May 2023).
GRACELAND BY AVA WONG DAVIES - THEATRE
Composer & Sound Designer (Royal Court Theatre, Feb - Mar 2023)
2022
A FAMILY BUSINESS BY CHRIS THORPE - THEATRE
Dir. Claire O’Reilly
Composer & Sound Designer (Mainz Staatstheater & German tour, Dec 2022)
HARD SAME BY BOTH AND - LIVE ART
Devised by Anna Clock & Hester Stefan Chillingworth (in development, June – Nov 2022)
ELECTRIC ROSARY BY TIM FOLEY - THEATRE
Dir. Jaz Woodcock-Steward
Composer & Sound Designer (Royal Exchange Theatre, March – May 2022)
MYSTERY TRIP BY NIGEL & LOUISE WITH KERRY UNDERHILL - DIGITAL ART
Co – Sound Designer (Feb – Mar 2022)
BLUBBER BY KATIE GREENALL - THEATRE
Dir. Rafaella Marcus
Composer & Sound Designer (R & D, Jan 2022)
2021
CUNTO BY JOELLE TAYLOR -THEATRE
Dir. Rob Watt
Composer & Sound Designer (R & D, The Albany, Nov 2021)
SPEAK SOFTLY, GO FAR BY OISÍN MCKENNA - SOUND ART
Dir. Darren Sinnott
Composer & Sound Designer (Abbey Theatre / privately in public, 2021)
MUM BY MORGAN LLOYD MALCOLM -THEATRE
Dir. Abigail Graham
Composer & Sound Designer (Theatre Royal Plymouth & Soho Theatre, Sept – Nov 2021)
THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE BY MARTIN MCDONAGH -THEATRE
Dir. Rachel O’riordan
Composer & Sound Designer (Chichester Festival Theatre & Lyric Hammersmith, Sept – Nov 2021)
45 NORTH SEED COMMISSION -THEATRE
Commissioned to write and create a 0.5 draft of a new audio piece as part of 45 North trans commissioning scheme (Mar – June 2021)
CRAVE BY SARAH KANE-THEATRE & FILM
dir. Tinuke Craig
Composer, Sound Designer & Film Sound Mixer
(Chichester Festival Theatre & Livestream, Oct – Nov 2020; Film available On Demand release May 2021)
MADRIGAL BY JAZ WOODCOCK-STEWART & COMPANY -THEATRE
dir. Jaz Woodcock-Stewart
Sound Designer
(Central School of Speech & Drama, Apr 2021)
ANOTHER PLANET BY THE GRAMOPHONES - SOUND ART
dir. Hannah Stone & Ria Ashcroft
Composer, Sound Designer and Sound Editor
(Commissioned by Nottingham Lakeside Arts, released Nov 2020)
WRITTEN ON THE WAVES AUDIO DRAMA SEASON PRODUCED BY 45 NORTH - PODCAST
dir. Jessica McVay
Composer, Sound Designer & Editor
(Online release, May 2021)
INSIDE SEASON AT ORANGE TREE THEATRE - THEATRE & FILM
dir. Anna Himali Howard
Composer & Sound Designer
(Live stream from Orange Tree Theatre, Mar – Apr 2021)
2020
WILD CREATED BY HOW IT ENDED, BASED ON THE BOOK BY EMILY HUGHES
dir. Eva Sampson
Sound Designer
(Unicorn Theatre, London – Mar – May 2020)
HOTHOUSE BY DYLAN COBURN-GRAY WITH MALAPROP THEATRE
dir. Claire O’Reilly
Composer & Sound Designer
(THIS IS POP BABY at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Mar 2020)
THE EFFECT BY LUCY PREBBLE
dir. Audrey Sheffield
Composer & Sound Designer
(English Theatre Frankfurt, Germany, Feb – Mar 2020)
EARTHQUAKES IN LONDON BY MIKE BARTLETT
dir. Abigail Graham
Composer & Sound Designer
(Milton Court Theatre, Guildhall School of Drama, London, Feb 2020)
2019
I WANNA BE YOURS BY ZIA AHMED
dir. Anna Himali Howard
Composer & Sound Designer
(Paines Plough & Tamasha; The Albany, UK Tour and Bush Theatre, London, Oct 2019 – Jan 2020)
NOT F**KIN’ SORRY BY NOT YOUR CIRCUS DOG
dir. Liselle Terret
Sound Designer & Composer
(Soho Theatre, Oct 2019)
SHUCK ‘N’ JIVE BY CASSIOPEIA BERKELEY-AGYEPONG & SIMONE IBBETT-BROWN
dir. Lakesha Arie-Angelo
Sound Designer
(Soho Theatre, Oct 2019)
GROOVE BY OUTBOX THEATRE
dir. Ben Buratta
Composer & Sound Designer
(R & D, Battersea Arts Centre Sept 2019)
ADMIN BY OISIN MCKENNA
dir. Darren Sinnott
Sound Design & Composition
(Vault Festival, Live Collision & Dublin Fringe Festival 2019)
ANGUIS BY SHEILA ATIM
dir. Lucy Atkinson
Sound Designer
(BBC Arts & Avalon productions, Edinburgh Festival 2019)
SUMMER FEST BY YOLANDA MERCY
dir. Lakesha Arie-Angelo
Sound Designer
(National Youth Theatre Playing Up programme, The Bunker Theatre, July 2019)
ARMADILLO BY SARA KOSAR
dir. Sara Joyce
Composer and Sound Designer
(The Yard Theatre, May – June 2019)
FATTY FAT FAT BY KATIE GREENALL
dir. Madelaine Moore
– Composer and Sound Designer
(Canada Water Theatre; Camden Roundhouse; Edinburgh Festival & Tour – May – October 2019)
TRACE BY LOUISE BRECKON-RICHARDS
dir. Alice Fitzgerald
– Composer and Sound Designer
(R & D at Old Diorama Arts Centre, May 2019)
THE LOVE OF THE NIGHTINGALE BY TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER & THE LOWER DEPTHS BY MAXIM GORKY
dir. Shane Dempsey & dir. Andrei Biziorek
– Composer and Sound Designer
(Fourth Monkey Studio Theatre, May 2019)
FIGHTER BY LIBBY LIBURD
dir. Julie Addy
– Composer and Sound Designer
(Startford Circus, April 2019)
LOOKING FORWARD (DEVISED BY THE COMPANY)
dir. Toby Peach & Grace Gibson
– Composer and Sound Designer
(Battersea Arts Centre, April 2019)
MARY AND MARIA BY ANNA CLOCK & JOSEPHINE STARTE
dir. Rebecca Hill
– Co-creator
(Camden People’s Theatre, Mar 2019)
THE BUTTERFLY LION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO
dir. Jessica Daniels
– Composer and Musical Director
(Barn Theatre, April 2019)
SOFT ANIMALS BY HOLLY ROBINSON
dir. Lakesha Arie-Angelo
– Sound Design & Composition
(Soho Theatre, Feb – Mar 2019)
MISS FORTUNATE BY MOLLY O’SHEA
dir. Oliver Dawe
– Sound Design & Composition
(Vault Festival 2019)
WORK BITCH BY JESSICA SIÂN
dir. Blythe Stewart
– Sound Design & Composition
(Play Theatre Co., Vault Festival 2019)
TWELFTH NIGHT BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
dir. Anna Girvan
– Composer & Musical Director
(Southwark Playhouse, Jan – Feb 2019)
FINDING FASSBENDER BY LYDIA LARSON
Rive Productions, dir. Blythe Stewart
– Sound & Music
(Edinburgh Festival 2018; Vault Festival 2019)
2018
PUNK ROCK BY SIMON STEPHENS
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts Dir. Tinuke Craig
– Sound & Music
(New Diorama Theatre, Dec 2018)
POMONA BY ALISTAIR MCDOWELL
|Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts Dir. Anthony Lau
– Sound & Music
(New Diorama Theatre, Dec 2018)
BURY THE DEAD BY IRWIN SHAW
Brickdust / Finborough Theatre Dir. Rafaella Marcus
– Sound & Music
(Finborough Theatre, Oct – Nov 2018)
FABRIC BY ABI ZAKARIAN
Damsel Productions, dir. Hannah Hauer-King
– Sound Design
(Soho Theatre & tour of London boroughs in association with Solace Women’s Aid, Sept – Oct 2018)
SONGLINES BY TALLULAH BROWN
Hightide & Dugout Theatre, dir. George Chilcott,
– Sound Design
(Edinburgh & Aldeburgh Festivals, Regional Tour, The Mix Walthamstow Aug – Sep 2018)
OVEREXPOSED BY DALLAS FIELDS
Composition
(V & A Friday Late: Mirror Mirror, July 2018)
SPUN BY RABIAH HUSSAIN
Directed by Richard Speir
– Sound & Music
(Arcola Theatre, London, June – July 2018)
FORGOTTEN WOMEN PODCASTS BY PEER PRODUCTIONS
Directed by Rebecca Alloway
– Music composition & live performance
(May – July 2018)
THEY SAILED AWAY BY SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE ELDERS COMPANY
Directed by Jenni Elbourne, devised by the company
– Sound & Music
(Aug – Sept 2018)
SOUND DESIGN COURSE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE HOSTED BY HOLBORN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION’S MEDIA ARTS CLUB
Workshop facilitation for young people aged 13-18, culminating in the creation of a sound walk to be presented at Bloomsbury Arts Festival, October 2018.
(Holborn Community Association, April – July 2018)
THE SHOW BY ROWLAND HILL
Installation
– Sound design
(Slade exhibition space, June 2018)
THIS IS A BLIZZARD BY FLOCK ENSEMBLE
Directed by Ana Brothers; Devised by the Company
– Sound & Music
(Waltham Forest Festival June 2018; Barbican Lab July 2018)
UNCENSORED: BANNED & CENSORED PLAYS BELKA PRODUCTIONS
Directed by Max Gill
– Sound Design
(The Royal Haymarket, May 10th 2018)
REACTOR BY BRAD BIRCH
Directed by Hannah Bannister
– Sound & Music
(ArtsEd London, 22 – 26th May 2018)
[BLANK] BY ALICE BIRCH FOR NATIONAL THEATRE CONNECTIONS FESTIVAL
– dir. Freyja Winterson
Sound & Music
(Orange Tree Theatre & Lyric Hammersmith, London, April 2018)
FOR THE FALLEN BY JOHN YOUNG
– dir John Young, Community Cast
Sound & Music
(Ballakerneen Studio Theatre, Isle of Man, April 2018)
DEVIL WITH THE BLUE DRESS BY KEVIN ARMENTO
– dir. Joshua McTaggart
Sound & Music; composition for live saxophone
(Bunker Theatre, London, March – April 2018)
SPINE FESTIVAL
Lead Artist in Residence at Harrow Libraries with Associate Artist Thembe Mvula.
Site-specific devising, interactive public sound installation, sound work, and workshop facilitation with children, young people, members of the community including those with special needs.
(Harrow Libraries, Feb – March 2018)
SONIC FLUIDITIES: THE RADICAL POTENTIAL OF HEADPHONE SPACE IN A GENDERED AURALITY
Research paper presentation and Sound installation in collaboration with neuro-ethicist Lauren Sankary.
(UC San Diego, USA, March 2018)
CONSTELLATIONS BY ANNA CLOCK
(2nd Feb, Quarter Block Party, Cork & 22-23rd Feb, Vault Festival 2018).
HILDA & VIRGINIA BY MAUREEN DUFFY
– dir. Natasha Rickman
Sound & Music
(Jermyn St Theatre, 27th February – 3rd March)
THE MOOR BY CATHERINE LUCIE
– dir. Blythe Stewart
Sound & Music
(Old Red Lion, 6th February – 3rd March 2018).
MARIA BY ANNA CLOCK AND JOSEPHINE STARTE
– devised
R & D and showing at Engine Room at The Omnibus
(Omnibus Theatre, London, Feb 2018)
2017
Tobacco Road by Incognito Theatre
dir. Roberta Zuric
– Sound & Music
(Pleasance Theatre, December 2017)
Me & My Whale by Xavier Velastin & Hannah Mook
Devised
– Music
(RET Manchester & Live Art Bistro Leeds, November 2017)
Continuity by Gerry Moynihan
dir. Shane Dempsey
– Sound & Music
(Finborough Theatre, July – August 2017)
RUN by Stephen Laughton
dir. Lucy Wray, produced by In Bloom
– Sound Designer, Composer
(JW3 London, March 2017; The Marlborough, Brighton, March 2017; The Bunker, London, March 2017).
CONSTELLATIONS by Anna Clock and Lauren Tata
– Composer and Performer, commissioned by Rough For Opera
(The Cockpit, London, December 2016; Jigsaw, Dublin, February 2017; The Others, London, April 2017).
2016
IN UTERO by Anna Clock and Veronika Szabo
– Sound Designer, Foley Artist
(commissioned by the Irish Composers’ Collective and performed at ICC SPEAK in the Irish Architectural Archive, November 2016).
Laughing Matter by End of Moving Walkway
– Sound Designer
(Kings Head Theatre, July 2016)
The Timestealers by Very Clock
– Sound Designer, Composer, Performer, Foley Artist
(The Queens Arms, Holborn, London, July 2016).
One Moment by Very Clock
– Sound Designer, Composer, Foley Artist, Performer
(We Are Now Festival, Camden Roundhouse on June 10th, 2016).
Poke in the Eye by Georgie Morrell
– Sound designer
(previews June and July 2016, London; Edinburgh Fringe August 2016).
Snail Walk with Discotheque Collective
– Sound Improvisation
Workshop Facilitator, Composer and Performer
(performed in site-specific outdoors locations in Berlin, April 2016, as part of Space/Time Festival 2016 and Dublin, 2013 as part of 10 Days in Dublin Festival).
2015
Babies by Very Clock
– Sound Designer and Performer
(Styx, London, March 2015).
‘Are you there?’ by Anna Clock
– Immersive site specific headphone piece
(performed in Swiss Cottage Library, December 2015).
2014
At Sea by Just The Lads
– Sound Designer, Composer, Performing Musician (cello and voice)
(performed as part of the Dublin Tiger Fringe Festival, September 2014, in the New Theatre, Temple Bar. Nominated for Best Design in Dublin Fringe Festival 2014).
The Last Post by Just The Lads
– Sound Designer, Composer
(performed as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival September 2013 and with the support of Dublin City Council again in November 2014).