BIO

Claire Karpen is an actor, director, teacher and acting coach based in NYC who has worked both on and Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. 

​​She was most recently seen on Broadway in Grey House opposite Laurie Metcalf.  Additional credits include Broadway: Sylvia. Off-Broadway: Into the Woods (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Heir Apparent (Classic Stage Company), Jack (59E59), and At the Table by Michael Perlman (HERE Arts/Fault Line). Regional:  Dairyland (Playmakers Repertory Theater), Birthday Candles (Detroit Public Theatre) Into the Woods (Old Globe, McCarter); On the Exhale (Chautauqua Theatre), Bedroom Farce (Westport Country Playhouse), Don't Talk to the Actors (Penguin Rep); Richard III, Much Ado, Tempest, Comedy of Errors (Trinity Rep), The 60's Project (Goodspeed), and The Last Five Years (Stamford Center for the Arts).   In London’s West End, Karpen appeared in the Fiasco Theatre Group’s production of Into The Woods.  She is also a proud Eastern Region Principal Councilor in Actors' Equity Association.

​​She has an extensive directing resume as well, which includes: Steel Magnolias (Heritage Theatre Festival); The Woodsman (New World Stages, 59E59, BlueBarn/Strangemen); Bernie and Mikey's Trip to the Moon (59E59/Strangemen), Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale (Chautauqua Theatre and MSFO); Shakespeare's Henry IV Part I, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Little Night Music, Trelawney of the Wells, and Actor Presentations for Group 43-49 (Juilliard). 

​​Karpen has taught students at the Juilliard School, Syracuse's Tepper Center in NY for both BFA Acting students as well as Invent@SU engineering students; MudBone in the Bronx; Juilliard's arts camp in Kissimmee, FL (ages 8-18), and masterclass workshops at Roundabout, the Public, the Old Globe and the Chautauqua Institution.  

​​As a private coach, she regularly works with actors on material for theater, musical theater, television, film, cabaret and conservatory schools auditions.

​​Karpen is a graduate of Juilliard and Brown University.  She is the recipient of the Michel St. Denis Award and Susan Ross Steinfeld Award for Theatre.

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