Bio

A Vancouver actor, director and teacher, Claire holds a BA in Theatre and English Lit from UBC, an MFA in Directing from UofA, and is a graduate of Tooba Physical Theatre Centre. Her areas of teaching specialization are:  acting, collective creation or play making, directing, Grotowski & Decroux based physical theatre, movement, Shakespeare, and text analysis.

Principal mentors are Kate Weiss and Dean Fogal, and she has also studied with Linda Putnam, David MacMurray Smith, Charles Marowitz, da da kamera, Foresight Theatre, Mascall Dance, the National Voice Intensive, Boca del Lupo, and Margie Gillis, and been commissioned by Edmonton’s Catalyst Theatre to create Sixth Sense.

Directing credits include Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, Judith Thompson’s adaptation of Hedda Gabler, Mud by Maria Irene Fornes, and Lady Macbeth, an original creation based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Acting credits include the title role in Moo, Estragon in Waiting for Godot, and Lady Macbeth.

Claire has taught at UofA, UBC, and The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

She was the Director of Educational Programming and lead Acting Teacher at Tooba Physical Theatre Centre.

Claire co-founded Velvet Bone Theatre and Cor Departure Theatre Ensemble, now reincarnated as Minotaur’s Kitchen, where she is the Artistic Director.