Clara Solly-Slade (Director/ Co-Founder of The Kinetik Collective): Clara graduated from the acting stream of The Adelaide College of the Arts (2013) then undertook further training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London (Acting Shakespeare course, 2016). In 2017 she trained in Italy with La Mama Experimental Theatre Company at their International Directors Symposium. Clara was awarded the Helpmann Academy’s Neil Curnow Award (2018) where she interned in the USA with The H.E.A.T Collective, Working Classroom and continued her work with La Mama Experimental Theatre Company. She is a member of the multidisciplinary art collective The Bait Fridge.

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Clara worked for two years full time as an Emerging Director Fellow with the State Theatre Company of South Australia and State Opera of South Australia (2019-2020). In 2021 Clara directed ‘Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons’ at Adelaide Collage of the Arts and for Dream Big Children’s Festival with Finnigan Kruckemeyer’s ‘Everything They Ever Said with Fingers Crossed Behind their Backs’ for the Say Art’s Youth Ensemble. Co-Founder of Independent Company The Kinetik Collective she Directed ‘Kill Climate Deniers’ in 2022 as part of The State Theatre Company of South Australia’s ‘Stateside Program’. Clara Co-Directed The River that Ran up Hill with Andy Packer for Slingsby Theatre Company presented in the 2023 Adelaide Festival, ‘Hypercolour Miscellaneous Bistro Buffet’ with Dave Court for Slow Mango and The Bait Fridge as a part of Illuminate Festival and The Sight with Victoria Falconer for Dark Mofo.