Claire Blackwelder

Claire Blackwelder (she/her) is a Boise-born, DC-raised musician, actor, and teacher who has worked all over the globe. She holds a BA from the University of Southern California, where she performed with and served as Music Director for the award-winning collegiate a cappella group The SoCal VoCals. She studied Shakespeare at BADA Midsummer at Oxford before promptly heading to New Zealand for her first professional job: fighting alien monsters as the Purple Power Ranger for two seasons of Nickelodeon's Power Rangers Dino Charge. She received her MFA from The Shakespeare Theatre Co. Academy for Classical Acting at GWU, and was employed as a Teaching Artist at STC upon graduation. She taught with the Riko Method School of Piano and Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles, served as a Guest Lecturer at Boise State University, and has coached privately in L.A, D.C., and now New York. She belts 80s rock and goes home to play Chopin, and encourages her students to bring their unique, contradictory selves to their work.

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