Performance art & theatre

CLUNK theatre is a company of emerging artists: Dania, Grace, Lauren and Billie. The foursome met at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama on the MA Advanced Theatre Practice course in 2021. They formed as a group to make work that is fun, freeing and for everyone. Challenging the structures in the world that tell them no, and instead say yes. At the heart and core of CLUNK is their friendship and experiences of the world together. Four friends embracing the clunk and making with what they have.

Meet the Team!

Dania Kioufi

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Dania Kioufi is a theatre deviser and live artist based in London. In 2020 she graduated from the BA Drama and Theatre Arts course at the University of Birmingham. Dania has also completed the MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Dania has worked as an actress with director Amy Draper in the play, ‘Comment is Free’. In her own solo practice, Dania has made autobiographical pieces focusing on her diaspora and experiences as a Cypriot woman living in the UK.

She is constantly interested in matters of the body, in particular what the female body in space means and the messages it can convey. Dania is passionate about work that pushes boundaries and is constantly questioning society.

Lauren Stone-Symes

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Lauren is a Deviser and Theatre Maker from South-West England. After studying in the final cohort of the Dartington Legacy BA (Hons) Theatre at Falmouth University, Lauren founded Algae Grunge with long-time
collaborator Jay Sweeney.

Alongside this she is a founding member of Fourth Floor Theatre whose debut show, The Waiting Room, was co created with director Jenny Davies & Papatango Prize Winner Samuel Bailey. When she is not creating, Lauren can be found working backstage as a Stage Manager at The Egg Theatre & Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath.

Alongside this freelancing, Lauren helped run workshops at The Egg Theatre’s well-loved Theatre School, where she has worked with everyone from children to elders.

Billie Osborn-Harrison

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Billie is a Theatre Maker and performer originally from the East Midlands and now based in London. Her work finds new ways to expand the realms of play, exploring participation, comedy, sound design, failure and DIY theatre.

Billie has completed her studies on the MA Advanced Theatre Practice at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Her practice prioritises process over product and to let you in on her process of writing this bio – she found it very

hard, so hopefully this will do.

Grace Kavanagh

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Grace is a creative deviser, performer, and writer, both born and currently based in London. Recently completing the MA Advanced Theatre Practice course at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. During their studies they have been able to develop and hone their creative artistic practice.

In 2017, Grace performed an original solo This is an Original Piece of Theatre at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts which explored the possibilities of translation through bodies and voice.

In 2020, they began developing a piece named I Shit you Not in reaction to the COVID19 loo-roll hoarding, which explored how we are able to document a time we have not yet been allowed to process.

Grace has been able to explore comedy, and the use of drawing within performance as a method of live performance-construction. Grace’s interests include collective memory, awkwardness, and DIY theatre aesthetics.