Claire Derriennic (she/her) is an educator and theatre-maker for young audiences currently serving as the inaugural theatre educator at North Country Children's Museum in upstate New York. 

A longtime French immersion teacher and administrator at Concordia Language Villages (CLV), Claire was the recipient of CLV's 2024-2025 Dietrich Fellowship. During this 9-month travel opportunity, she visited Canada, Spain, France, Senegal, and Mongolia, honing skills in clown and theatre-making for the very young. 

​Claire has written, directed, and/or co-created several performances for young audiences, including The Materials that Make Us, a museum theatre play and sculpture workshop presented at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh. Other projects include Pen Pals, an interactive play for ages 4-8 commissioned by ARENAaprende, which toured to kindergartens in southern Spain, and Fall(oon), a play for ages 2-6 devised with Bamboo Theatre in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 

Claire is the playwright and director of Fishing for Stars, which was workshopped at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

She holds a BA in French and Justice and Peace Studies from Georgetown University, a public school teaching certification in K-12 drama in the state of Texas, and an MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities from the University of Texas. 

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