Claire K. Redfield is a director, educator, and community-engaged artist originally hailing from Chicago, Illinois and currently based in Tempe, Arizona. Claire recently completed her MFA in Theatre for Youth and Community at Arizona State University where she pursued a thesis on trauma-responsive rehearsal practice: Rocks in the Riverbed: Building a Trauma-Responsive Workbook for Theatre Practitioners. Claire has worked as a director, dramaturg, and teaching artist at numerous Chicago theatres including Lookingglass Theatre, Sideshow Theatre Company (where she also served as Community Engagement Associate from 2014-2017), Something Marvelous, Next Theatre, Women's Theatre Alliance, The Waking Theatre, Adventure Stage Chicago, and her own theatre company, Eleusis Collective. Claire holds a B.A. in Drama and Anthropology from Tufts University and currently serves as co-artistic director and co-founder of Sleeveless Acts, a new community-based theatre company based in Phoenix, Arizona. More information at: clairekredfield.com