Editor of Education
An alumnus of Washington College in Maryland, Claire taught theater and media productions in public high school before earning the Master of Letters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature with a special emphasis in teaching from Mary Baldwin College in partnership with the American Shakespeare Center of Staunton, Virginia. In addition to working backstage on such MFA productions as The Two Noble Kinsmen, she served as a dramaturg for the American Shakespeare Center’s productions of The Tempest (dir. Giles Block) and Love’s Labour’s Lost (dir. Jacquelyn Bessell). Claire has presented her research to the Shakespeare Association of America (seminar), the Fourth and Fifth Blackfriars Conferences, and the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. She has also guest lectured on early modern staging for university students. Her essay on developing a rehearsal technique for dismemberment in early modern drama recently appeared in Renaissance Papers 2008.


