ABOUT

Claudia is an award-winning theatre director, writer, and scholar from Co. Clare, Ireland, whose work explores peculiar intimacies and hope in unlikely places. She is based in Chicago.

 

Claudia is particularly energized by new work and can often be found poring over scripts in development with writers. Her practice is informed by collective creation, physical theatre, and somatically-based techniques. 

 

Recent Chicago-based directing credits include: Recycle, Baby! and Love Like Real by Kate McMorran (reading), Slutbot by Michelle Houle (reading), and The Year of Magical Thinking (Assistant Director, Remy Bumppo).

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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 Australia's award-winning The Rabble, Chicago's Remy Bumppo Theater Company, the American Music Theatre Project, and as a movement director with Rough Magic. She has also undertaken a directing observership at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Her work has been supported by Dublin Fringe Lab, Clare County Council, and Fishamble: The New Play Company.

 

As a playwright, her 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.

 

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. 

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Claudia is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama program. Her research examines gender and racial formation through the lens of nonhuman performance.

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