Katie Claire
Katie Claire is a SAFD-certified fight director and has worked off-Broadway, regionally, and at the University level. She trained in many combat styles in her graduate program at Virginia Commonwealth University, which Fight Master David Leong headed. Upon moving to NYC, she also began to train at Neutral Chaos. Katie specializes in creating fights that are both vulnerable and powerful. She brings her intimacy training into combat, helping the actors to feel confident and brave in all the required movements. With this agency in place, the actors and the entire team collaborate to create emotional and unforgettable stories.
TERRORISM
AGNES OF GOD
Debra Carozza and Missy Renwick. Summit Playhouse, NJ.
Katie was the Fight/Intimacy Director on the Off- Broadway play She's Got Harlem on Her Mind at Metropolitan Playhouse.
Andrew Hardigg, Brian D. McCormack, Stephon Pettway, Robert Spiker. Columbia University Lenfest Center for the Arts.
Katie has been the Fight Director on Spring Awakening, Pippin, Heathers at Vanguard Theatre; Terrorism at Columbia University; A Midsummer Night's Dream at LIU Post; The Balcony, She Kills Monsters, Our Lady of 121st Street, Lysistrata, and Purgatory in Ingolstadt for Marymount Manhattan College; The Wedding Singer, Footloose, And Then There Were None, 1984, and Amityville 74 at interAct Theatre; A New Brain at Old Library Theatre; The Music Man and Agnes of God at Summit Playhouse.
HEATHERS
Heathers Ensemble, Vanguard Theatre Company. Photography by Kyle Watkins.