Clare is a Greenville, SC-based director, casting director, and producer who works across genres and specializes in new play development and contemporary musicals. She started out freelancing in DC, where she had the pleasure of working with companies including Olney Theatre Center, Theater J, Mosaic Theater Company, Flying V, and Nu Sass Productions. DFW directing credits include NNPN's rolling world premiere of ALABASTER at Kitchen Dog, the regional premiere of A DOLL’S HOUSE: PART 2 at Stage West, and productions of WEST SIDE STORY and THE SECRET GARDEN at The Stolen Shakespeare Guild. Favorite directing credits include VENUS IN FUR, NOAH: APOCALYPSE, AVENUE Q, SWEENEY TODD, and a hit actor-muso production of ASSASSINS. Producing credits include Taphouse Theatre's virtual new play festival 'Shelter In Place', Nu Sass Productions' 'Nu Drafts: A New Play Bar Crawl', and Olney Theatre Center's 'Pulitzer Prize Festival'.

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