Clare Packham is a writer and director. She met her writing partner Fintan Kealy at the University of Bristol, where she studied Theatre and Performance. She is co-founder of artist collective PINCHY theatre, who create new work across the UK. In 2021 she was selected as a Resident Artist for Hypha Studios, in a disused three-storey, vaguely derelict high street Thomas Cook building. Here she conceived numerous live events, installations, and an audio ‘dream walk’.
Clare is one half of the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Writing Team Placement 2025, her role being to support BYMT as a Dramaturg.
Together with writing partner Fintan, Clare has created work such as FLITCH, a musical about the Great Dunmow Flitch Trials and It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Madge, a solo show about Margaret Cavendish, where performance art meets experimental musical theatre. Clare and Fintan’s work has been showcased in BEAM2023 at Oxford Playhouse, presented in a masterclass with Claude-Michel Schonberg, and they have been finalists for The Pleasance’s Charlie Hartill Award in 2024 and 2025. Their genre-bending comedy musical Killing Time in Darkminster was produced at Lincoln Arts Centre in May 2025.
Clare is the Writer & Co-Lyricist for The Cottingley Fairies.
