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Currently located in Savannah, GA, Claire is an actor and director with a knack for intimacy coordination, casting, and finding terrible reality tv shows. Her performance streak started at the rebellious age of four when she discovered the art of lying*. Acting simply started as a hobby for a imaginative little girl, and has now spiraled out of control with training from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington and an official degree in Performing Arts and Casting from SCAD Savannah College of Art and Design. Growing up the eldest daughter to a single mother and first generation from her father, a bucket of life complexities created an artist dependent on spreading light, kindness, and joy in pursuit of understanding one another a little more deeply.
*she was not a natural
When I was little, I thought I could talk to squirrels.
Tucked away in an unassuming pocket of Orlando, Florida, a little girl played.
Barefoot and wild, she competed against the worms in digging holes and screamed for the birds watch her fly. She napped in the grass, next to the tulips that loved her, and whispered secrets to the wind, who in return planted dandelion wishes in the yard. She firmly believed in this peaceful little world she created, and what a beautiful world it was.
High in the branches of an oak she had yet to conquer, a creature, small in stature, sat still in the leaves. The little girl was sweet (on good days), but was never fond of this kind of mockery. Strong-willed but shy, she demanded the creature come down to greet her. But it simply stared. Puzzled, she studied it with intense curiosity.
"I know you want to tell me something," she said. "But I can't hear you down here." So, with conviction, she called for the creature again. This time, though, she asked for it to drop a ladder as well. The creature simply stared. She grabbed at the bark with fingernails and raised her foot, attempting to crawl her weight towards the sky.
"Please?" she said. The bark pricked at her skin and down her body slipped, dispelling a series of thin cuts across her arms and legs. The creature flinched and her voiced raised louder, desperate to keep it close.
"Do you have a mission for me? You can say. I won't tell." They shared a quiet moment. And with that, the creature leaped and disappeared within the air. The girl was left to mourn what she couldn't control.