Claire Karpen is an actor, director, teacher, acting coach, and public speaking and presentation coach based in NYC. She has worked on/Off Broadway, regionally, internationally and virtually in theatre, TV and film. She is currently on faculty at The Juilliard School and is also a proud Councilor of Actors’ Equity Association.
Actor
(AEA/SAG AFTRA)
Upcoming: God of Carnage (Katonah Classic Stage)
Film/TV: New Amsterdam (NBC, recurring); Law & Order (NBC); Blue Bloods (CBS); Love Life Season 2 (HBOMax, recurring);The House on Cox Curve (Brightside Best Actress); It’s Freezing Out Here (web series), several national commercials. Broadway: Grey House; Sylvia. Off-Broadway: Into the Woods (Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival, Roundabout/Fiasco); The Heir Apparent by David Ives (Classic Stage Company); Jack by Melissa Ross (59E59); At the Table by Michael Perlman (HERE Arts/Fault Line). London: Into the Woods (Menier). Regional: August: Osage County (St. Louis Rep); Into the Woods (Old Globe, McCarter); Emma in Betrayal (Katonah Classic Stage); Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (St. Louis Shakes - 2022 Nomination for Best Actress); Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle (World Premiere - Detroit Public Theatre); Dairyland by Heidi Armbruster (World Premiere - Playmakers Rep); On the Exhale (Chautauqua Theater Company); Bedroom Farce (Westport Country Playhouse); Don't Talk to the Actors (Penguin Rep); Richard III, Much Ado, Tempest, Comedy of Errors (Trinity Rep); The 60's Project (Goodspeed); The Last Five Years (Stamford Center for the Arts).
Proud Eastern Regional Principal Councilor of Actors' Equity Association, currently running for re-election: AEA Elections.
Press - Actor Coaching - Directing
Director
Upcoming: Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare on the Sound, Summer 2024
Off-Broadway: The Woodsman by James Ortiz (Obie Award Winning, New World Stages/59E59) Bernie and Mikey's Trip to the Moon by Scott Aiello (World Premiere, 59E59);Voices in My Head (Ars Nova). Regional: Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling (Heritage Theatre Festival, VA); The Woodsman by James Ortiz (Blue Barn, NE); Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale (Chautauqua Theatre Company/MSFO, Chautauqua, NY); Chibok by Sabo Kpade, Nia, Discovered by Cris Eli Blak, Nurse Cadden by Kate Mickere (All it Takes is One Act, A is For Play Festival, NY, NY). Educational: Henry IV Part I, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Little Night Music, Trelawney of the Wells, Actor Presentations for Groups 43-present (Juilliard); She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen (Syracuse University); Into the Woods (Brown University); Moscow, Moscow… by Halley Feiffer (Columbia University, MFA Acting).
Training: Juilliard Drama (Michel St. Denis Award) and Brown University (Susan Ross Steinfeld Award for Theatre).
Love Life
Season 2, HBO Max
Acting Coach
Privately, Claire works with actors on material for theater, television, film, and conservatory schools auditions. As an acting teacher, Claire teaches in the Juilliard School Drama and Extension Divisions and has worked at Columbia University’s MFA Grad Acting; Syracuse BFA and Tepper Center; Nord Anglia International School; MudBone Arts Center; Juilliard Kissimmee Arts Intensive; and masterclass workshops at Roundabout, the Public, the Old Globe, St. Louis Shakespeare, and the Chautauqua Institution. As a private coach, Claire regularly works with actors on material for film, television, theater, musical theater as well as MFA, BFA , and other acting program auditions. She is also available to work, not just an auditions, but to help develop and exercise an overall process to use throughout all stages of your career.
Speaking and Presentation Coach
As a Public Speaking and Presentation Coach, Claire works with professionals in a wide variety of industries including startup founders, engineers, scientists, lawyers, professors, consultants and marketing professionals on their public speaking and presentation skills - both for in person events as well as online virtual platforms such as Zoom, Skype, FB or Instagram Live, FaceTime and Google Meet.
Individual sessions and Group Workshops available.