Claire’s foundational practice, Doctorate and subsequent book explored the use of Applied Theatre as a Tool of Empowerment with Looked after Children. For 12 years, she developed practice-based research with children in care, children in prison and communities living in high areas of deprivation, to define a distinct, collaborative and creative practice with marginalised groups which underpins her ongoing work as a consultant, writer and producer.
As an Associate Producer with Little Fish Theatre since 2008, Claire has worked with hundreds of young people across South East London. In 2022, she was funded to write a touring play in a response to the murder of Sarah Everard. Her play, To Be Continued, exploring sexual violence, allyship, misogyny and child exploitation, has reached over 6000 young people and professionals to date.
Since 2015, Claire’s practice has interrogated the use of immersive theatre genres and boutique festival culture as sites for radical resistance. She produces for Burning Man Project, USA; Tropical Pressure Festival, Cornwall; and Boomtown Fair, Hampshire.
In 2018, Claire launched Ninth Life, a large South London venue committed to community-centric programming and participatory performance genres. As the producing Artistic Director, she also wrote and directed a 9-roomed in-house immersive theatre show called The Viewing which ran for a year, producing 850+ live-shows and receiving 5-star reviews.
Claire has previously taught at the universities of Auckland, Winchester, California, New York and London (Goldsmiths and Birkbeck), the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
