Clare Mullen is an award-winning writer, director and actor in theatre and film. In 2017 Clare won Outstanding New Work for the first iteration of Next Sunday at the Alberta Drama Festival Association (ADFA). At the same festival in 2012 she was awarded Outstanding Performer, Best Director and Best Production for her work in Maude Gonne Says No to the Poet. Her short film Homunculus was awarded a Drama Prize from the National Screen Institute of Canada (NSI), a Silver Medal from Austria’s Festival of Nations and nominated for an AMPIA Award in 1994. More recently Clare produced and stage-managed Minerva Queen of the Handcuffs at Theatre Network’s Roxy Series.