Hello, my names Justin Teddy Cliffe. I make theatre; in all kinds of different ways, with all kinds of different people.

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Whether I’m creating work as a performer or leading processes as a director; exploration, invention and collaborative action fuel my working life.

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My work is mostly informed by my lived experience of the world, sometimes by my mental health, and always indirectly by my neurodiverse(ness). I regularly work across disciplines in collaboration with science, nature, wellbeing and health care professionals/organisations.​

 

I have created and toured my own work as well as having developed and performed work in the UK and internationally, with companies like; National Theatre Wales, Bristol Old Vic, Battersea Arts Centre, Birmingham REP and Common Wealth. My digital performance work has been supported by BBC Arts and BBC Cymru Wales and I have been nominated for numerous awards including the Evening Standard Future Theatre Makers award, for my work as a Director.

 

I’m fixed on making work that is temporary, alive and always in conversation with it's audience. Using humour and pop-philosophy to lean into the unknown, I create absurdist, comedic and raucous work that I hope has the ability to change some small thing we think about the world.

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I'm currently an Arts Council Wales funded artist and recipient of their Creative Development fund exploring my practice as a Director and Devising Theatre maker.