"Frankie is our Swiss-Army Knife..."
-Teddy Poll, Artistic Director of the Musical Mentors Collaborative 
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Claire-Frances Sullivan (she/her) is an actor, singer, musician, composer, lyricist, playwright, and teaching artist. New York City based and rural Michigan bred, she graduated from Central Michigan University with a BFA in Musical Theatre Performance.
You may know her as Claire-Frances, CF, or Frankie, depending on the setting. As a performer, Claire-Frances specializes in actor-musician shows and new work. Whether it's performing brand new musical theatre written by her peers in the BMI workshop or cycling through all six instruments she plays in a regional folk-rock show, she loves artistic freedom and form-pushing theater. But don't get her wrong: CF shines in a tap number in a classic golden age show too. Claire-Frances was last seen in New York City at the Signature Theatre Company and TheaterLab, and regionally in the mountains of Alaska with the Alaska Cabin Nite Dinner Theatre and in Auburn, New York at the REV Theatre Company. She's a member of the Ring of Keys. As a playwright, lyricist, and composer, Claire-Frances is award-winning and internationally produced. She has had work produced by and/or developed at The York Theatre Company, The Workshop Theater Company, The Powerhouse Theater, Midland Center for the Arts, The Pulp Stage Theatre Company, Festival 56, The Rorschach Theatre, and The Bread and Roses Theater. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Maestra, and is a lyricist with the Advanced BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Claire-Frances's original musical, Fostered Love, was the recipient of the Kennedy Center's National Musical Theatre award through the Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards in 2018. Claire-Frances is the founder of "CF's Writer's Roundtable", a writing group that meets once a week. Check out some of their work here! As a teaching artist with the Musical Mentors Collaborative and CAMP Theatre Company, Claire-Frances teaches music to students who wouldn't otherwise have access to private lessons and co-facilitates a theatre-based after school program. She teaches private singing, songwriting, piano, and guitar lessons and leads workshops on songwriting, storytelling through music, and songwriting for change to larger groups with MMC and their affiliated organizations. CF absolutely loves teaching and if you're looking for private lessons on a three-pronged approach of songwriting, singing, and playing an instrument, send her an email! |
As a person, when she’s not making things, Claire-Frances loves spoiling her two cats, reading books on radical leftist revolutionary thought, tending to her family of plants (as well as spending time with her human family), hiking, puzzles, going to the beach, learning about space, and playing board games.
Whatever the medium, Claire-Frances is dedicated to imagining the way the world could be and working toward it.
Whatever the medium, Claire-Frances is dedicated to imagining the way the world could be and working toward it.
"Man of La Mancha", 2022, picture by Natalie Boggs and Graco Hernandez
"[ untitled hat project ]", 2021, picture by Isabel Ng
Pop-punk band, "good thoughts", 2021, picture by Sean Salamon
