About:

Haley Jakobson, 2018

Claire-Frances is an NYC-based actor, singer, dancer, composer/lyricist, and playwright. Originally from Michigan, Claire-Frances graduated from Central Michigan University with a BFA in Musical Theater Performance. She’s most recently performed in New York City with the Signature Theatre Company and in various cabaret settings. Claire-Frances is an internationally produced and award-winning playwright with work produced by and/or developed at the Powerhouse Theater, Midland Center for the Arts, TACT studios, The Pulp Stage Theatre Company, and the Bread and Roses Theater. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Playwright's Center of Minneapolis, and is the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s National Musical Theater Award for her original musical Fostered Love. Her work includes short plays, full-length plays, song cycles, and full-length musicals with original music, lyrics, and libretti. Whatever the medium, Claire-Frances is dedicated to being a person and what that means when you get to make art with other people. You may have seen her at the Open Jar Institute for Musical Theater, at the Powerhouse Theater Training Company as a playwriting apprentice, or at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in residence as a playwright observer. When she’s not making things, Claire-Frances loves reading, spending time with her family, and learning about outer space.

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Upcoming:

Claire-Frances is currently developing her play, Close Encounters, with the Pulp Stage Theatre Company in Portland, Oregon, with production projected in late 2019/early 2020. Following a summer full of cabarets, Claire-Frances will be auditioning for work year-round as well as attending the United Professional Theatre Auditions in February. She will be heading back to the O'Neill center this coming summer as an invited "Super Reader" guest.