Clark Baim

Director | Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama (UK)

Clark Baim is the Director of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama and Honorary President of the British Psychodrama Association. After touring as a performer with the original USA company, in 1987 he was the founding Director of Geese Theatre Company UK, where he used applied theatre in criminal justice and social welfare settings. He is now on their Board of Trustees. Clark is co-author of the Geese Theatre Handbook (2002) and has published widely on applied theatre, psychodrama, criminal justice interventions, and attachment-based practice. He does extensive international work and regularly teaches on university drama courses. He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter, UK. In 2020, Clark published ‘Staging the Personal: A guide to safe and ethical practice; (Palgrave Macmillan). The centrepiece of that book is the Drama Spiral – a model Clark devised to help theatre and arts practitioners to maintain safe and ethical practice when staging personal stories.