Rev Dr Clare Hammoor is an ordained Interfaith Minister and playful theatre-maker. He is fascinated by object-oriented ontologies, ritual work, and collective joy.

Clare has led life rites for the past eight years from home blessings to funerals. His ritual work is an applied theatre practice. He has taught at New York University and University of Denver among other institutions and given lectures across the US. He has led classes and workshops internationally and his writing appears in articles, chapters, and journal editorships. Clare's passion for joy and justice has also led him to teach university courses in prisons for the past ten years on arts and spirituality.

Clare is the Performance and Pedagogy Consultant for the DU Prison Arts Initiative where he started a series of play-based arts workshops for children and their incarcerated parents. He is particularly animated by directing theatre with ensembles inside the prison system as a way of collectively imagining a more just and joyful world. Through DU PAI, Clare directed 30 residents of Denver Women’s Correctional Facility in a performance of A Christmas Carol which was seen by over 1100 members of the public at the Newman Center for Performing Arts in addition to another 1800 audience members inside the prison. He is currently directing Jesus Christ Superstar with 60 residents as performers, musicians, and designers at Fremont Correctional Facility.

Clare earned a doctorate from NYU where his research focused on the agencies of children and things in play. If you’re looking for a particularly niche conversation starter, his diss is titled Theatre of Children: Absurd Agencies in/of the Anthropocene. He also holds a MA in Educational Theatre from NYU, a BA in Theatre and Religious Studies from Indiana University, is an ordained interfaith minister through The New Seminary, and a certified advanced Integrated Energy Therapy practitioner. Clare is currently studying at Iliff School of Theology where he is working toward his Masters of Divinity. He is the Ministerial Intern at Namaqua Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Loveland, Colorado.

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