Clarissa Widya is a Co-Founder and now Co-Artistic Director of Papergang Theatre, leading the company as a producer.
Since Papergang Theatre’s foundation in 2013, Clarissa has facilitated writing workshops and R&Ds, and produced staged readings and scratch nights. In 2018, Papergang Theatre became a charity and a year later, Papergang Theatre returned with more socio-political projects: Tiananmen 30 (2019) at the Omnibus Theatre; Invisible Harmony 无形的和谐 at the Southbank Centre and Freedom Hi 自由閪 followed in 2020, the latter winning VAULT Show of the Week.
Having developed several projects during 2020-2021, current projects include: Dreamers (June 22, Omnibus Theatre); Watermelon by Enxi Chang (WIP), Asian Pirate Musical (Sharing Oct 22, Soho Theatre) Amaterasu.
Clarissa has collaborated with the Diversity School Initiative, facilitating a workshop to feed into their Manifesto for change. She participated in the Leaders of Tomorrow programme and is part of the Bridge The Gap 20/21.
Clarissa is also manager of the London Theatre Consortium and mentors both MA Producing students at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and at Rising Waves a BESEA Initiative.
