Jocelyn Clarke is a dramaturg for stage and screen. He is Senior Dramaturg at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. He was Theatre Advisor to the Arts Council of Ireland for ten years, and Literary Manager of the Abbey, Ireland’s national theatre. He is an Associate Artist with Theatre Mitu and with The Civilians. As a dramaturg, Clarke has worked with writers such as Katori Hall, Taylor Mac, Lydia Diamond, Abhishek Majumdar, Eduardo Machado, Charles Randolph Wright, Lisa Kron, Seamus Heaney, Tazewell Thompson, Craig Lucas, Carl Hancock Rux, Kenneth Lin, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Tanya Saracho, Aaron Posner, and Karen Zacarias. He was a script editor on several Irish films, including Young Offenders, and was executive story editor on all three seasons of the BBC/RTE TV series Young Offenders. He is a writer producer on the second season of P-Valley, Katori Hall’s acclaimed TV series for Starz. His new adaptation of Elizabeth Swados’ musical Beautiful Lady will be directed by Anne Bogart at La Mama Theatre in New York in May 2022.