Claire Moodey is a Brooklyn-based theatre artist holding a B.A. in Theatre from Bard College. As a collaborator and maker, Claire works as a performer and singer, director, playwright/lead artist, production designer, mask & puppet designer, video editor/designer, lighting designer and technician. She has worked as a farm hand, electrician, dry stone wall builder, archeologist, and puppeteer in California, France, Scotland, Jordan, New York, and Vermont. In 2014, Claire was a fellow in the first year of Target Margin Theater’s Institute where she pursued theatrical existentialism in Performance Research Sessions: Form & Function. You may explore her research and findings here. Claire spends a good deal of time thinking about compost.
ORIGINAL WORKS AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
A fellow in the Target Margin Theater’s 2014 Institute for Collaborative Theater Making, Claire Moodey is currently pursuing research about in the ongoing series Performance Research Sessions: Form & Function. Collaborative projects include TRAGEDY – with Maxwell Cramer, Milo Cramer and Ariel Stess – and Colors Project – with e.g.burt. She has also created lighting design at Dixon Place, the HOWL Festival and the Spiegeltent at Bard Summerscape and video design for her own works and John Epperson’s Show Trash (part of LYPSINKA! A Trilogy 2014).
