Child Acting with Claire K.

www.clairekarpen.com

Claire Karpen (AEA/SAG-AFTRA) is an actor, director and teacher based in NYC who has worked both On/Off Broadway, regionally and internationally. Acting: London: Into the Woods (Menier Chocolate Factory). Broadway: Sylvia. Off-Broadway: Into the Woods (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). Regional: Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle (DPT); Into the Woods (Old Globe, McCarter); On the Exhale (Chautauqua Theatre); 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). She is also a proud Eastern Region Principal Councilor in Actors' Equity Association. Directing: Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling (Heritage Theatre Festival); The Woodsman by James Ortiz (New World Stages, 59E59, BlueBarn/Strangemen); Bernie and Mikey's Trip to the Moon by Scott Aiello (59E59/Strangemen), Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale (Chautauqua Theatre and MSFO); Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune by Terrence McNally, A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler, Trelawney of the Wells by Arthur Wing Pinero, Actor Presentations for Group 43-49 (Juilliard). Training: Juilliard (Michel St. Denis Award) and Brown University (Susan Ross Steinfeld Award for Theatre). Teaching: Claire has taught students at the Juilliard School where she also directs studio projects, Syracuse's Tepper Center in NY both for BFA Acting students as well as Invent@SU engineering students; MudBone in the Bronx; Juilliard's arts camp in Kissimmee, FL (ages 8-18) and masterclass workshops at Roundabout, the Public, the Old Globe and the Chautauqua Institution. As a private coach, Claire regularly works with actors on material for theater, musical theater, television, film, cabaret and conservatory schools auditions.

Brown University

Juilliard

Brown University

Juilliard

Actors' Equity Association, founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 49,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.

SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals. SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices that entertain and inform America and the world. With national offices in Los Angeles and New York, and local offices nationwide, SAG-AFTRA members work together to secure the strongest protections for media artists into the 21st century and beyond.