S.D Clifford was born in Killarney, Ireland in 1975. His works have been published in over 30 different Anthologies, including The Wired Cripple, The Galway Literature Review, Breacadh, The Kingdom, Nowhere to Nowhere, Political Dogma and various others publications. In 1997 he founded the New Irish Writers Movement, and subsequently took on the aggressive and deluded Arts world in Ireland.
In 2002 his play ‘Laurie and Jessie’s Christmas’ was optioned by an Award-Winning Theatre Company in Ireland, and its text was used in New York at The American Opera Project during the summer of 2006. His play ‘Don’t Know-Never Know’ was staged in Killarney and Listowel, Ireland in 2003. In 2014, he toured Ireland with his show DARK, which premiered in Berlin two years previous, where it got exceptional reviews in both Der Tagesspiegel and Ex-Berliner. It also opened Heritage Week in Muckross House Killarney the same year.
He has been involved both in writing and directing on various film projects including ‘Wie man sich umbringt ohne zu sterben’ (How to Kill Yourself without Dying). After time in various locations including Berlin, Valencia and Paris, he is currently living in Dublin, preparing to stage ad adapted and final version of the project DARK that will be named DARKK. Continuing to write whilst supporting himself through hard work and manual labour, he has now gone too far to ever turn back.