Acting
Claire Kaplan
MFA, European Devised Performance Practice
BA, Theatre
I got my start at the Long Beach Shakespeare Company when I was 14. I moved towards the contemporary canon in college: Williams, Odets, Miller, Wilson, Shepard, Rivera. Then I got into the Eastern Europeans and things became pretty weird.
I now work with a mix of Viewpoints, Meisner, Grotowski, LeCoq, Brecht, Donellan, Bausch, and classical training.
Check out my resume and some of these fancy photos!
Lady into Fox
as Silvia, the lady who turns into a fox, in this award-winning devised piece
Resume
| Selected Theatre | |||
| Olympia! Olympia! Olympia! | Self | Theaterhaus Mitte (Berlin) | Dir: Self |
| Wild Women | Baby | Edinburgh Fringe | Dir: Brittany Price Anderson |
| Manifest(O) | Self | Chopin Theatre | Dir: Firenze Guidi |
| Oklahoma: Winner Takes All | Curly/Self | Columbia Chicago | Dir: Thom Pasculli |
| The Suitcase | Jackleen | The West/Echo Theatre | Dir: Sam Hunter |
| Second Skin | Mother | The West/Flagship Ensemble | Dir: Kate Jopson |
| Henry V | Chorus | Kingsmen Shakespeare | Dir: Michael Arndt |
| Three Sisters | Natasha | La Jolla Playhouse/WOW | Dir: Tom Dugdale |
| Lady Into Fox | Silvia | The West | Dir: Sam Hunter |
| Dealing Dreams | Zoe | Stage Door Rep | Dir: Andy Lowe |
| She Kills Monsters | Kalliope | East West Players | Dir: Andy Lowe |
| Macbeth | Macbeth | THE TRIP | Dir: Tom Dugdale |
| Our Town | Mrs. Soames | La Jolla Playhouse/WOW | Dir: Tom Dugdale |
| Oklahoma! | Gertie Cummins | Sierra Repertory Theatre | Dir: Dennis Jones |
| Three Sisters | Olga/Fedotik | Hungry River Theatre Co. | Dir: Sam Hunter |
| Heart of Dogland | Kate/Queen | Hungry River Theatre Co. | Dir: Sam Hunter & Co |
| Hamlet | Hamlet | Hungry River Theatre Co. | Dir: Sam Hunter |
| Pride and Prejudice | The Girl | South Coast Repertory | Dir: Kyle Donnelly |
| Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog | Reporter | Chinese Pirate Prod. | Dir: Andy Lowe |
| Hot L Baltimore | April | UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse | Dir: Kim Rubinstein |
| The Hatmaker’s Wife (Original prod.) | Wall | Baldwin New Play Festival | Dir: Josh Brody |
| Cowboy Mouth | Cavale | Hollywood Fringe 2011 | Dir: Sam Hunter |
| Much Ado About Nothing | Beatrice | UCSD Cabaret | Dir: Sam Hunter |
| Pagan Play | The Queen | Hollywood Fringe 2010 | Group Produced |
| The Measure for Measure Experiment | Provost | The Oval House Theatre, London | Dir: David Freeman |
| The Lonesome West | Girleen | Triad Productions | Dir: Adam Parker |
| Balm in Gilead | Rust | Steppenwolf West | Dir: Jeff Perry |
| Woyzeck | Marie | UCSD/La Jolla Playhouse | Dir: Gabor Tompa |
| Romeo and Juliet | Juliet | Long Beach Shakespeare Co. | Dir: Helen Borgers |
| The Taming of the Shrew | Bianca | Long Beach Shakespeare Co. | Dir: Helen Borgers |
| The Tempest | Miranda | Long Beach Shakespeare Co. | Dir: Helen Borgers |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Peaseblossom | Long Beach Shakespeare Co. | Dir: Helen Borgers |
| Romeo and Juliet: Deconstructed | Every Character | SD Shakespeare Society | Dir: Mike Auer |
| Film | |||
| Sub Rosa | Mina (Lead) | The West | Dir: Spencer Devlin Howard |
| Like Animals | Mother | The West | Dir: Leland Montgomery |
| God Particles | Jill (Lead) | The West | Dir: Leland Montgomery |
| Voice-Over | |||
| Ingobernable | Anna Vargas-West (Lead) | Netflix | Post-Haste Digital |
| Commercial | |||
| National | Lead | Silver Jeans | Dir: Milana Vayntrub |
| Germany | Lead | Migraine Mode App | Dir: Filip Lisowski |
| Founding Member | |||
| Hungry River Theatre Co.; also Director of Education, designed and taught classes for all levels | |||
| The West (thewest.la) | |||
| Training | |||
| MFA in European Devised Performance Practice: Columbia College/Arthaus Berlin | |||
| BA in Theatre: UC San Diego | |||
| Certificate in Theatre and Theatrical Analysis: British-American Drama Academy Viewpoints, Meisner, Alexander, Feldenkrais, Grotowski, Improvisation (comedic, dramatic, and physical) Ballet, Yoga, Contemporary Dance, Singing, Classical Text, LeCoq, Storytelling, Maskwork, Lucid Body, Impact Play. | |||
| People and Places | |||
| Steppenwolf West, Alexandra Billings, Kim Rubinstein, Eric Hunicutt, Jeff Perry, Jim Winker, Ian Wooldridge, Mick Barnfather, Annabelle Leventon, Fiona Shaw, Brian Cox, Greg Hicks and Kelly Hunter of RSC, Ursula Meyer of OSF, Eva Barnes, Linda Vickerman, Comedy Sportz, Ultimate Improv, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Kyle Donnelly, Gabor Tompa, Thomas Prattki, Family Floz, Song of the Goat, Punchdrunk | |||
| Milton B. Saier Memorial Award for Acting, UCSD | |||
| Yale Finalist, 2014 | |||
| NYU Finalist, 2015 | |||
| Special Skills | |||
| Mezzo Soprano; outdoor Shakespeare; improv (short and long form); Mandolin; sketch writing; 16 years of ballet, yoga, choreography; vocal coach; horseback riding; stage combat (swordplay, hand-to-hand); fire poi; conversational French; accents and impressions, all kinds. | |||