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Box Clever Theatre Company
Box Clever is an award-winning, writer-led theatre company dedicated to the creation of contemporary theatre for young people.

Our mission is to inspire, challenge and motivate young audiences. Over the last fifteen years, Box Clever has reached thousands of young people across the UK and beyond, with artistic productions and workshops that are imaginative and radical.

Up to six plays a year tour to schools and theatres across the UK. Last year, our work engaged with over 26,000 young people, touring to 210 schools, as well as venues which included the National Theatre Studio; Half Moon Young People’s Theatre; Curve, Leicester; Brighton Dome; the Pleasance, Edinburgh; the Dukes’, Lancaster; and the egg, Bath Theatre Royal.

Box Clever is a registered company with charitable status and a member of the Independent Theatre Council. Box Clever is based at the Oval House Theatre in London.

Michael Wicherek, Artistic Director

Michael graduated in History, has an MA in screenwriting and trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He was awarded a British Council bursary to work as Assistant Director to Isabella Cywinska at Teatr Nowy, Poland before winning Critics Choice for his first play Count Rakowsy and the Zagrobky Mime Troupe at the Gate in London. He worked with Chris Johnson at Insight Arts before founding the TIER International Theatre Project with actors and artists from the UK and Romania, writing and touring his silent play Mark and the Marked. In 1996, Michael created Box Clever as a company to write, produce and tour new vigorous productions, particularly to young people. Its first play, The Buzz (with Amit Lahav) won the prestigious Prince Michael of Kent award for innovation. His play Sixteen premiered on the Dublin Fringe winning a Fringe First. Michael took part in the first Performance Arts Lab on ‘writing for young people’, led by John Retallack and was included as a writer in the Arts Council of England’s Year of the Artist. Recent writing credits include SK8 Angel (for GLYPT); Sweetness and Badness (for Welsh National Opera); Dirty Kissing (for Box Clever). Michael currently sits on the Board of the Independent Theatre Council and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. An exhilarating and unconventional writer, he draws on his varied background in theatre, film, education and social work to develop plays which emerge as uniquely poetic snapshots of life in the ‘here-and-now’.