rais clarke-mendes

Rais Clarke-Mendes is a Trinidadian-Barbadian performer, director, playwright, and emerging producer based in Toronto. She is a graduate of the Acting Program at the National Theatre School of Canada. Rais made her directorial debut with X and Da Spirit by Donovan Hayden at Theatre Passe Muraille in association with b current performing arts. She has also served as Assistant Director on Fat Ham at Canadian Stage and Red Velvet at Crow’s Theatre. Beyond her work on stage, Rais is engaged in arts education and community programming through her collaboration with Nia Centre for the Arts. She is currently developing her original play, Carnival Queen, as part of Nightwood Theatre’s Write From The Hip program. Rais is thrilled to be working with Theatre of the Beat as an Emerging Producer Fellow, building her producing toolkit with the goal of supporting Black and Caribbean artists to bring their stories to the stage.