Maire Clerkin

Máire Clerkin - [Maura] writer, actor, storyteller, choreographer, teacher. Writer-storyteller, Telling LA, PBS; writer, I Lived a Double Life, The Irish Times; host BBC World Service Revolver; presenter BBC TV Music Makers. Solo performer, The Bad Arm - Confessions of a Dodgy Irish Dancer, North America, Ireland, UK tours. Choreography: Dancing on Dangerous Ground, Theatre Royal Drury Lane / Radio City Music Hall; Unconnected Soundings, Royal Opera House; Centenary Knees Up, South Bank; Fennels, Flannels, Funnels with John Hegley, The Place; director The Hairy Marys, Clerkinworks. Teaching Artist: LA Arts Group, The Music Center, Segerstrom Center, The Players Conservatory. Adjudicator of international dance/ choreographer of award-winning productions for 30+ years. An inside observer of Irish dancing corruption, Máire is developing her new screenplay, The Jig is Up.