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performance CLAIRE KARPEN is going to start graduate studies in Drama at Juilliard beginning the fall of 2008. She most recently appeared in the Public Theater Shakespeare Lab’s performance of Unrequited directed by Barry Edelstein in which she played Viola, Ophelia, Margaret among other roles. She was also recently featured The 60’s Project (Goodspeed, dir. Richard Maltby, Jr.). Other favorite past roles include Kathy in The Last Five Years at Stamford Center for the Arts, Clytemnestra in Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Anna in Paula Vogel's And Baby Makes Seven (MTS), Andromeda in Biography of a Constellation (GST), Ariel in the Tempest (Trinity Repertory), Lady Anne in Richard III (Trinity), Lucy in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Lila in Jordan Harrison's Museum Play. She is also featured in the award-winning short film Caixa de Botões (Box of Buttons) directed by Natasha Mehler, and as the voice-over for the National Coalition Against Censorship’s new DVD about art censorship, The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
As a singer, Claire has had the privilege of performing in prestigious locations such as Carnegie Hall, New York City Center, and Italy’s St. Francis of Assisi, and as a lead singer in a performance for composers Stephen Sondheim and Charles Strauss. She also had the unique privilege of participating in a master class with the brilliant and legendary Barbara Cook. Claire recently performed her New York Cabaret debut at the Duplex this past April, and is in the process of putting together a new one featuring the songs of Mike Pettry.
Claire also was a member of the a cappella group the Chattertocks. Her solo performance of “Cowboy, Take Me Away” is featured on All Modesty Aside, Contemporary A Cappella Award’s Best Album of 2004.
writing and directing Claire recently directed a production of Mike Pettry: The Voices in My Head featuring the songs of 2007 Jonathan Larson Award Winner Mike Pettry at Ars Nova as part of their Uncharted series. In 2004, Claire wrote and performed a full-length solo performance piece entitled Claire de Lune. She also directed a production of Into the Woods at Brown in December 2003. Claire also has written various poems and special song arrangements for celebrations such as weddings, rehearsal dinners, birthdays and anniversaries. If you are interested in this service, visit special events.
producing As a producer, Claire is a founding member of the Vineyard Theatre's Springboard as well as the Temporary Theatre Company. She was also an associate producer on the PASSION Benefit Concert for Friends-In-Deed, starring Donna Murphy, Michael Cerveris and Marin Mazzie. While at Brown University, Claire was the chair of the student-faculty producing board Sock and Buskin in 2003-2004, as well as a member of Musical Forum producing board for all of her four years at Brown.
teaching As an educator, Claire has worked with Mudbone and the Public Theater teaching a Shakespeare workshop to students in Hunts Point in the Bronx. She has also worked as a guest artist with the Theatre Development Fund (TDF) and is currently the coordinator of youth programs at the National Coalition Against Censorship.
While at Brown University, Claire worked for a semester at the Gordon School in Rhode Island, teaching theatre to students K-8 and helping them put on a production of Annie, Jr., as part of MTI’s Junior Series. The success of this production inspired the school to create a permanent after-school theatre program for its students, where none had previously existed.
Claire will begin graduate studies in Drama at Juilliard in the fall of 2008. She holds a B.A. in Theater and English from Brown University, class of 2004, where she received the 2004 Susan Ross Steinfeld Award and the 2003 Minnie Helen Hicks Award. At Brown she studied with Oskar Eustis, Kevin Moriarty, Spencer Golub, Lowry Marshall, John Emigh, Don Wilmeth, and Coppélia Kahn.
Claire recently completed the Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab, where she studied with Michael Cumpsty, Kate Forbes, Suzanne Bertish, May Adrales, text with Barry Edelstein, movement with Julio Monge, stage combat with J. Steven White, teaching artists training with Michael Wiggins, voice with Robert Perrillo and clown with Chris Bayes.
She has also trained at the British American Drama Academy (BADA) where she worked with distinguished directors Mark Wing-Davey, David Leveaux and Deborah Warner, and actors Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, and Floyd King.
Claire is also an alum of Interlochen Arts Camp and more recently, studied with director John Ruocco at the GYM, and Rawleigh Moreland and Mary Ann Conk at the School for Film and Television.
She is currently studying voice with Dianna Heldman, having previously studied with Anne Runolfsson in NY and Beverly Lambert in CT.
other Claire has also worked with organizations such as the Shubert Organization and the entertainment law firm Grubman Indursky, PC. She now works part time at National Coalition Against Censorship as the coordinator of youth programs and the Free Expression Network.
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