RUSSELL CLARE ASSOCIATES
Who We Are
For over thirty years, we have worked in both the creative and corporate sectors building a skill set that includes: consulting, business development, workshop creation, training design, sponsorship sales, mediation, grievance assessment, marketing, PR, producing, writing, performing and directing. This includes working as Head Trainer and Business Director at one of the UK's leading anti-racism organisations, delivering training, consultancy and much more to creative organisations across theatre, visual arts, museums, dance, television and music in all regions of the UK. Thanks to our decades in the industry, we also have a wealth of experienced associates who work with us to deliver bespoke solutions.
Carol Russell
Carol Russell is a consultant, screenwriter, actress, teacher and founder of Fresh Voices UK, a network which amplifies the work of ethnically diverse screenwriters in the television industry. For over 20 years she has worked in the field of organisational change; designing and delivering workshops in Knowledge Management, Change Management and ED&I for consultancies such as Sparknow, Trans4mation and The Scenic Route.
As a screenwriter she has written for award-winning drama Soon Gone: Windrush Chronicles (BBC), the BAFTA-nominated Story of Tracy Beaker, House of Usher (short film for BBC), and two seasons of Comin' Atcha, a series based on the lives of English girl group Cleopatra. She recently co-wrote the book Invisible to Invaluable with author and advertising professional Jane Evans. She also founded Fresh Voices UK - an organisation promoting Global Majority writers to the top levels of the UK's theatre and television industries.
As a consultant, she has worked with a number of organisations such as Royal Mail, British Airways, several international pharmaceutical companies, British government agencies such as HMRC and DEFRA, and international development banks including ADB (Asian Development Bank) and CDB (Caribbean Development Bank). She has also been one of a group of pioneers using story to increase knowledge transfer within organisations, and managing change by sharing lessons, bringing strategies to life and getting messages out across organisations. She is also an experienced external grievance investigator.
Julie Clare
Julie trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has worked as an actress, writer and producer for television and theatre for over thirty years. She is a recipient of the Stage One Bursary and has produced/associate produced Olivier Award-winning West End shows such as Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, In The Heights and Baby Reindeer.
Other shows include: The Snow Queen, Peter Pan and Chinglish (Park Theatre), Yes Queens, the West End's first female led comedy improvisation night launched at the new Boulevard Theatre in 2019. She produced Julie Madly Deeply (written and performed by Sarah-Louise Young) in New York and London (Brits Off Broadway season at 59E59 Theaters/Park Theatre) and was associate producer, in partnership with Francesca Moody Productions, on two shows: Do Our Best and Baby Reindeer, which won an Edinburgh Fringe First prior to its sold-out run at the Bush. Previous projects as associate producer include the Number One tour of Strangers On A Train, Sideshow (Southwark Playhouse) and multiple Olivier Award-winning In The Heights by Lin Manuel Miranda.
Since the 1990’s, Julie has had a parallel career in event management, PR, marketing, Business Development and Sponsorship Sales. Since 2015 she has worked with Lewisham Children's Charity, Montage Theatre Arts as Funding Director, since 2020 as fundraiser for Inc Arts Minds and since 2021 as Business Director for Inc Arts. Julie is a member of UK Theatre and the League of Independent Producers.
Judith Bryan - Trainer
Judith Bryan is a writer, playwright and scholar. Her first novel Bernard and the Cloth Monkey won the 1997 Saga Prize and was republished by Penguin in February 2021 for the inaugural Black Britain: Writing Back series, curated and with a new introduction by Booker-prize winner Bernardine Evaristo. Judith holds an MA in Writing for Performance from Goldsmith’s College. Her play, Keeping Mum, was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award. Her short fiction and non-fiction appear in various anthologies including IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000, re-issued 2021), Gas and Air: Tales of Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond (Bloomsbury 2002), Closure: Contemporary Black British Stories (Peepal Tree Press 2015) and Glimpse: An Anthology Of Black British Speculative Fiction (forthcoming, Peepal Tree Press 2022). Judith is a qualified social worker with experience in Fostering and Adoption, young women’s Independence Training and special needs housing (vulnerable adults). Additionally, she has extensive experience as an educator, having devised community arts workshops for children and families, and taught creative writing for over twenty years in a variety of settings, including fifteen years as a University Lecturer where she convened the MA Creative Writing programmes. She is the recipient of a Betty Trask Grant, an Arts Council Award, a London Arts Board Award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. Judith is completing her second novel.