TC Squared Artists

Rosalind Thomas-Clark continues to work professionally as an actor and director for stage, radio, and film. Committed to theatre for social change, she runs her own theatre company, TC Squared: New Theatre Outside the Box, which produces Staged Readings of original work, often created in the TC2 Play Lab, and addressing relevant contemporary issues. As director of The Great War Theatre Project, a multi-media piece, which commemorates the centenary of World War One, she has been invited to tour schools and to perform in Boston, New York, London and South Africa. Her most recent acting role in Boston was as Hecuba in Trojan Women. She co-teaches Company One Theatre’s Acting Class for professionals, and headed the team for the prestigious, experiential summer program, British Cultural Connections, which, after eighteen inspiring years of working with student and educators, ended operations.

A life-long teacher of literature, theatre and the arts, Ms. Thomas-Clark received her undergraduate degree in theatre from the Guildhall School in London, and her master’s degree at Brown University. Involved in several start-up arts organizations, she was the founder and director of the Theatre Workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland; the South Island Workshop and the Music Theatre Group in London, England; the Open House Community Arts in Yorkshire, England; the Watershed at the Bristol Arts Centre in England; and The Maidment Arts Centre at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

Her work with the urban community has included founding TOY (Theatre Outreach for Youth) during her time at Brown University.  She was a founding faculty member and Chair of Theatre at the Boston Arts Academy for ten years. The recipient of a SURDNA Arts Teacher’s Fellowship in 2003, she studied with Augusto Boal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the Center for the Theatre of the Oppressed, working in prisons, favelas, and with other community organizations. In the summer of 2006, she traveled with ten BAA students to perform at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival in Scotland, UK.  She was awarded Boston’s Teacher of the Year Award in 2005, and a SURDNA Artist Colony Grant in 2008. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near her three children and five grandchildren.

She recently published a handbook for directors and theatre educators called Being in the Moment, available for purchase now on Amazon!