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performance CLAIRE KARPEN is currently back at school studying Drama at Juilliard with Group 41. Recent roles at Juilliard include Prospera in The Tempest (dir. Ralph Zito), Roxanne/Claire in Juilliard playwright Greg Keller’s play The Seduction Community (dir. Kip Fagan), Florabel Leigh/Flick in Once in a Lifetime (dir. Rebecca Guy), Conjur Woman in Dark of the Moon (dir. Trezana Beverly), Boo in Blue Window (dir. Rebecca Guy), and Marina/Dionyza/Gower in Pericles (dir. Richard Feldman). Before Juilliard, Claire 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 featured in 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 (Manhattan Theater Source), Andromeda in Biography of a Constellation (Greenwich Street Theater), Ariel in the Tempest (Trinity Repertory), Lady Anne in Richard III (Trinity Rep), 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 also created a cabaret show Here I Am which she performed at the Duplex in NYC and the Darien Arts Center in CT.
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 most recently directed a reading of The Time Traveler’s Convention written by Mike Pettry and Heidi Heilig and produced by Emerging Artists Theater. She also directed a concert performance 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. At Brown University, Claire wrote and performed a full-length solo performance piece entitled Claire de Lune as part of their Solo Festival. She also directed Brown University students in a production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods. 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, please email her.
producing As a producer, Claire was 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 was the coordinator of youth programs at the National Coalition Against Censorship from 2005-2008. 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 is currently studying Drama at Juilliard as part of Group 41.
In 2007, Claire 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 has 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 singing at Juilliard with Deborah Lapidus, 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. From 2005-2008, she worked at the National Coalition Against Censorship as the coordinator of youth programs and the Free Expression Network.
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