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BIO

A native of Co.Clare, Ireland, Claudia is an award-winning theatre director, writer, and scholar based between Chicago and Ireland. Her work often explores the body as an agent of storytelling, unexpected intimacies, life in rural Ireland, and the pursuit of joy in unlikely places.

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Claudia recently served as the dramaturg for the American Music Theatre Project's development of Night Side Songs by the Lazours. She will be directing a reading of Slutbot by Michelle Houle in March 2023.

 

Recent Chicago-based directing credits include: assistant director for Remy Bumppo's production Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking  (Theatre Wit, Chicago) and the assistant director and lead dramaturg on The Battlefields of Clara Barton, a new musical by Suzan Zeder and Jenn Hartmann Luck.

 

Other directing credits include the award-winning Knowing Nathan by Tony Doyle and Laura O’Shea (The Complex, Dublin/ Galway Fringe Festival, Winner of the Judge’s Choice Award 2018) and Goodnight, Lovelace (Links Hall, Chicago, Winner of the A&H Council Prize at UT Dallas), Shakers (Smock Alley, 2019), It Will Break (Smock Alley, 2019) and Constellations (The Samuel Beckett Theatre, 2016).

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Claudia has honed her directing craft by working as an assistant director at The Peacock at The Abbey, Ireland's National Theatre, with the American Musical Theatre Project, Australia's award-winning The Rabble, and as a movement director with Rough Magic. Her work has been supported by Dublin's Fringe LabClare County Council, and Fishamble: The New Play Company.

 

As a playwright, her debut one-woman play The Wendy House debuted at Smock Alley, Boy’s School in May 2018 (★★★★- The Arts Review). Her short play The Marble Contraption was published online by the Olivier award-winning Fishamble: The New Play Company. She has also written for Northwestern's leading children's theatre Imagine U. She has also served as a playwriting mentor for ASSITEJ’s ‘In the Works’ Theatre for Young Audiences festival in South Africa. 

 

As an actor Claudia has performed in Irish theatres such as The Samuel Beckett Theatre, The New Theatre and Smock Alley, on RTÉ Television and in several independent films. She is currently teaching Stage Acting at the Norris Centre at Northwestern University.

 

Claudia is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama program. Her research examines how female gendered new media devices, or what she terms 'virtual women', perform gender, race, and labour. She is the recipient of several academic accolades including a Gold Medal from Trinity College, Dublin (BA in Drama and Theatre Studies), the Herman Diedrich and Richard Johnson Families Scholarship and the Dissertation Development Program Fellowship (Northwestern University.)

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CV/ Resumé

To download Claudia's CV click here. References available upon request.

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