TEACHING PORTFOLIO

Claudia is a passionate educator of the Arts. She is a well respected acting teacher and freelance director with over 20 years experience in the entertainment industry. Claudia has worked with acting students at esteemed institutions including:

• National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA)- Bachelor Degree

• Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)- Bachelor Degree

• Actors Centre Australia (ACA) - Bachelor Degree

• Excelsia College - Bachelor Degree​

• Sydney Actors School 

• Sydney Theatre School (STS) - Advanced Diploma

• Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) - Term Classes and Holiday Workshops

• Brent Street School of Performing Arts - Term Classes and Holiday Workshops

• The Actors Division: Senior tutor - Term Classes and Holiday Workshops

Claudia draws on her own classical training as well as her experience as a working artist to ensure her pedagogy and syllabus focus is pertinent, rigorous and rewarding. In her teachings, Claudia commonly draws on practitioners such as: Konstantin Stanislavski, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, Ivana Chubbuck, Cicely Berry, Kristin Linklater, Keith Bain, Tadashi Suzuki, Christopher Bayes, Mary Overlie and Anne Bogart.  She holds a particular passion for the physical world of the theatre, clown and comedy.

She believes that the artist must seek discipline, retain a hunger for knowledge and a passion for the craft itself. Above all, Claudia endeavours to ensure her rehearsal rooms and tutorial studios are a place of safety, discovery and joy.​​