For Clancy Carraway, love of theatre has always been deeply mired in a love of storytelling.
Clancy’s first theatrical experiences were in Primary School performances of murder mysteries where he was quickly typecast as the amateur sleuth, detective or private eye, until his skills culminated in the earth-shattering role of Gaius Julius Caesar, in the devised performance of The Leaders of the World Chess Tournament.
It was in High School, however, that his talent bloomed. A natural leading man for angst-ridden teenage plays with themes of rebellion and heartbreak, he performed to rave reviews in a crowd pleasing Fast+Fresh play with angst-ridden themes of rebellion, heartbreak and what it would be like if Daniel Radcliffe was a revolutionary fascist supervillain.
Clancy left behind his angsty teenage years during college, where we played the role of Peck Johnson, a farmer, in Rimers of Eldritch. Despite his lack of agricultural experience, he was able to create a fully fleshed character through the sheer power of imagination; a role that still stands as a monument to time and a testament to the ages. This role he followed up with the role of Orlo in The Great, a fearless intellectual adventurer who conquered all enemies, but failed to win the most important war of all: the war of the heart on the battlefield of love. Clancy’s college years ended with the subtly nuanced and highly memorable role of Steve the Civil Engineer in Chekhov in Hell, a play about Steve the Civil Engineer.
Post-formal education, Clancy’s most recent appearance in the Sydney independent theatre scene was in the multi-playwright Fringe show Ambrosia, where he played the part of Jack the Werefox, a young shapeshifter exploring his newfound abilities in the mysterious mythical underbelly of Sydney’s inner west.