Claire Kiechel
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Claire Kiechel was born in Washington D.C, and raised in Paris, Brussels, and Westchester. She went to amherst College where she majored in Theater and Dance, French, and English. She has worked with Ars Nova, New York Stage and Film, the exchange, and Yarn Films. Readings and productions of her plays have been held at the Brick Theater, the First Floor Theater at LaMaMa, the Kraine, and various spaces throughout the city. She has received the alpha Delta Phi Fellowship for her play Obituary Mambo, an Edward Poole Lay Fellowship, and an Edinburgh Fringe First for her role in Bang Bang Youre Dead. Three of her plays Double Rainbow all the Way, Kissing Ronald Reagan, and Radical Methods For Radical Heartbreak were produced at the New School for Drama, where Claire is getting her MFA in playwriting. there, she has been fortunate enough to study with Christopher Shinn, Laura Marie Censabella, Michael Weller, and Jon Robin Baitz. She is a member of the writing group, the Hindsight Collective, and her poetry has been published in explosion Proof Magazine. Whale Song Or: Learning to Live with Mobyphobia was part of Fringe NYC 2011.
