ACTING
Claire is a proud AEA/SAG-AFTRA actor, who has worked in Film, TV, and on/Off-Broadway, regionally, internationally, and virtually in musicals, classics, and new plays.
Broadway: Grey House; Sylvia. London: Into the Woods (Menier Chocolate Factory). Off-Broadway: Into the Woods (Roundabout/Fiasco); The Heir Apparent by David Ives (NYC Premiere/Classic Stage Company); Jack by Melissa Ross (World Premiere/59E59); At the Table by Michael Perlman (World Premiere/HERE Arts, Fault Line). Regional: August: Osage County (St. Louis Rep); Much Ado About Nothing (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival); Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle (World Premiere, Detroit Public Theater); Into the Woods (Old Globe, McCarter); Betrayal, God of Carnage (Katonah Classic Stage); 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 (World Premiere, Goodspeed); The Last Five Years (Stamford Center for the Arts). Film/TV: New Amsterdam (NBC, recurring); Law & Order (NBC); Blue Bloods (CBS); Love Life (HBOMax, recurring); The House on Cox Curve (Brightside Best Actress); It’s Freezing Out Here (web series), several national commercials.
Proud Eastern Regional Principal Councilor of Actors' Equity Association.
Training: Juilliard Drama (Michel St. Denis Award) and Brown University (Susan Ross Steinfeld Award for Theatre).
Upcoming: FBI (Season 7); LIVE LONG a short film by Noelle P. Wilson, starring Claire Karpen and Reed Birney.
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“funny, real,
and devastating”
The New Yorker
"I fell head over heels."
Ben Brantley, New York Times
”an independent,
Hepburnian hoot”
Talkin’ Broadway
Reed Birney, Claire Karpen (set of Live Long)
Reed Birney, Claire Karpen, and director Noelle P. Wilson on set of Live Long
Claire Karpen (Ivy) and Ellen McLaughlin (Violet) in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
Astrid Van Wieren (Mattie Fae), Claire Karpen (Ivy), and Ellen McLaughlin (Violet) in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
Claire Karpen (Ivy) and Yvonne Woods (Karen) in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
Sean Wiberg (Little Charles) and Claire Karpen (Ivy) in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
Claire Karpen (Ivy), Yvonne Woods (Karen), Henny Russell (Barbara) and Ellen McLaughin (Violet) in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
Henny Russell (Barbara), Yvonne Woods (Karen) and Claire Karpen (Ivy) in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
Claire Karpen (Ivy) and Sean Wiberg (Little Charles) in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
Claire Karpen (Ivy) in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
Claire Karpen (Ivy), Ellen McLaughlin (Violet) and Henny Russell (Barbara) in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
Claire Karpen (Max) in GREY HOUSE by Levi Holloway
Eamon Patrick O'Connell, Colby Knipes, Millicent Simmons, Claire Karpen, Laurie Metcalf, Paul Sparks, Sophia Anne Caruso and the rest of the cast of GREY HOUSE
Colby Knipes, Millicent Simmons, Claire Karpen, Laurie Metcalf, Paul Sparks and Sophia Anne Caruso in GREY HOUSE by Levi Holloway
Claire Karpen (Max), Laurie Metcalf (Raleigh) and Paul Sparks (Henry)
Millicent Simmons, Claire Karpen, Laurie Metcalf, playwright Levi Holloway, Paul Sparks, Sophia Anne Caruso, photo by Bruce Glikas, opening night of GREY HOUSE 2023
Colby Knipes, Millicent Simmons and Claire Karpen
Richard Hollis (Robert) and Claire Karpen (Emma) in BETRAYAL
Claire Karpen (Emma) in BETRAYAL
Claire Karpen (Emma) in BETRAYAL
Trent Dawson (Jerry) and Claire Karpen (Emma) in BETRAYAL
Claire Karpen and Laurie Metcalf, GREY HOUSE Opening Night
Claire Karpen, Laurie Metcalf, photo by Bruce Glikas
Claire Karpen, opening night of GREY HOUSE
Claire Karpen opening night of GREY HOUSE
Millicent Simmons and Claire Karpen, photo by Bruce Glikas
Millicent Simmons, Daniel Reece, Winsome Brown, Claire Karpen, Erin Rosenfeld, photo by Bruce Glikas
Photo by Thomas Brunot
Photo by Thomas Brunot
BIRTHDAY CANDLES by Noah Haidle
TOP GIRLS by Caryl Churchill
AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at St. Louis Rep
Claire Karpen (Beatrice) and Stanton Nash (Benedick) in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING photo by Phillip Hamer Photography
JACK by Melissa Ross. Quincy Dunn-Baker and Claire Karpen
Dave Quay, Carson Elrod, and Claire Karpen in THE HEIR APPARENT by David Ives at Classic Stage Company
Claire Karpen (Cinderella) in Fiasco's INTO THE WOODS at the Old Globe
Ray Dooley and Claire Karpen in DAIRYLAND by Heidi Armbruster at Playmakers Rep
Claire Karpen (Beatrice) and Stanton Nash (Benedick) in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING photo by Phillip Hamer Photography
DAIRYLAND at Playmakers Rep
BEDROOM FARCE by Alan Ayckbourn at Westport Country Playhouse
ON THE EXHALE by Martin Zimmerman at Chautauqua Theater Company
Photo by Thomas Brunot
Photo by Thomas Brunot
BIRTHDAY CANDLES, cover of American Theatre
House on Cox Curve film
Photo by Thomas Brunot
Photo by Thomas Brunot
DAIRYLAND by Heidi Armbruster at Playmakers Rep
INTO THE WOODS, Fiasco Theatre at Roundabout
Claire Karpen (Beatrice) and Stanton Nash (Benedick) in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING photo by Phillip Hamer Photography
BIRTHDAY CANDLES by Noah Haidle at Detroit Public Theatre
Claire Karpen and Carson Elrod in BEDROOM FARCE by Alan Ayckbourn at Westport Country Playhouse
INTO THE WOODS, Fiasco Theatre at the McCarter
Dr. Michelle Goldman, NBC's New Amsterdam
BIRTHDAY CANDLES by Noah Haidle
Claire Karpen (Beatrice) and Stanton Nash (Benedick) in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING photo by Phillip Hamer Photography
Photo by Thomas Brunot
DAIRYLAND at Playmakers Rep
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Claire Karpen (Beatrice) in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING photo by Phillip Hamer Photography
ON THE EXHALE by Martin Zimmerman
Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, photo by Phillip Hamer Photography
Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker
All's Well that Ends Well
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Into the Woods, Fiasco
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
The Heir Apparent by David Ives
At the Table by Michael Perlman
On the Exhale by Martin Zimmerman
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
All My Sons by Arthur Miller. Harris Yulin and Claire Karpen.
All's Well That Ends Well
Photo by Thomas Brunot
Photo by Thomas Brunot