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Claire Derriennic is an educator and all-around theatre-maker pursuing an MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities at the University of Texas. Claire attended international schools in Macedonia, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Tunisia, and Bangladesh before moving to Washington D.C. to pursue a BA in Justice and Peace Studies at Georgetown University. After graduation, Claire worked as a marketing associate at Imagination Stage, a theatre for young audiences in Bethesda, Maryland. Claire's interest in puppetry led her to Tokushima, Japan, where she studied Bunraku puppetry in 2019. She is also a longtime French immersion counselor and administrator at Concordia Language Villages. |
Claire has written, created, and/or co-created several performances for young audiences, including Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, The Materials that Make Us, Taste Buds: the Adventures of Cake and Broccoli, and the devised piece for very young audiences Fishing for Stars, which will premiere at Arts on the Horizon in Alexandria, Virginia in 2025.
Her research focuses on theater and social change, exploring how devising theatre for the very young with teenagers can push against oppressive constructs like perfectionism and binary thinking and create space for personal transformation.
Her research focuses on theater and social change, exploring how devising theatre for the very young with teenagers can push against oppressive constructs like perfectionism and binary thinking and create space for personal transformation.
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