About — Cordelia Stevenson

About me

Cordelia Stevenson (she/her) is a neurodivergent theatre-maker, facilitator, producer, director, actor and clown based on the Wirral, Merseyside. She graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2015 with a first class degree in Drama and Theatre Arts. Cordelia established herself in London for 10 years before making the move North West in 2022. Much of Cordelia’s work is grounded in contemporary clowning performance, theory & practice, alongside devising practice, political and physical theatre.

Cordelia strives to make work that is playful and poignant, bonkers and beautiful, both ridiculous and revelatory.

Cordelia is co-artistic director and producer at Silent Faces, alongside Josie Underwood and Jack Wakely. Silent Faces is a company of disabled and neurodivergent theatre-makers. The company makes politically & socially engaged devised theatre with contemporary clowning at its core.

In her work both inside and outside of Silent Faces, Cordelia is passionate about clowning and play-based pedagogies as a radical and empowering form for those who have historically been excluded from actor training. She has herself trained with a number of renowned clown teachers including John Wright, Nola Rae, Deanna Fleysher (Butt Kapinski) & Phil Burgers (Dr Brown).

Cordelia has a huge breadth of experience in facilitation in both formal and informal education settings, and in communities. She is the current Merseyside Mentoring Officer at Arts Emergency, has been a Mentor Director for the National Theatre Connections programme and worked extensively as a facilitator for Splendid Productions. Cordelia has facilitated workshops for secondary schools nationwide, as well as theatres and arts organisations including the National Theatre, Sheffield Theatres, Cambridge Junction, Norwich Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth, and for Higher Education institutions including Goldsmiths, University of London and University of York.