résumé
Learn more about my education and work with playwriting, dramaturgy, directing, and arts education and administration here!
Please note that my full résumé is only available upon request through email. Email me at clairewaldropwrites@gmail.com for more information.
education
August 2021 - May 2025
Ohio University
B.A. English Literature and Creative Writing
Honors Tutorial College
Minor in Marketing
Professional Deaf Resources Liaison Certificate
Scholarly Concentration in Dramatic Literature
Cum Laude
January 2026 - Present
Faraway Theater
Improv and Sketch Comedy
playwriting
full-length
A Documentary on Steel and Public Health [and the apocalypse]
ten-minute
Flicker
five-minute
Two Ants Talking About God
Midnight Madness
undergraduate writer
in-development
Honors Tutorial College Thesis - April 2025
Ohio University Fringe Festival - April 2025
Honorable Mention for the 2025 Ohio University Outstanding Creative Thesis Award
Voices of Appalachia Play Festival, Green Brier Valley Theater - February 2024
Director's Cut, Deconstructing Directing
Selected Script for the Script Pool at Central Virginia Fringe (June 14-21), KC Fringe (July 13-27), Minnesota Fringe (July 31-August 10), and
Indy Fringe (August 14-18)
Ohio University's Midnight Madness
Featured Playwright & Director - August 2024 to April 2025
Caretaking - Full Length
Seven Conversations With My Grandmother - One Act
dramaturgy
May 2026 - June 2026
Dramaturg
Homewood Theater
Working by Stephen Schwartz
Directed by Carl Dean
Freelance
Giles v. Harris by Melanie Jeffcoat
Directed by Melanie Jeffcoat
June 2026 - Present
Dramaturg
September 2025 - November 2025
Dramaturg
Tigerfish Productions & Centerstage Productions
Tooth of Crime: Second Dance by Sam Shepard
Directed by Carl Dean
January 2025 - April 2025
Ohio University Fringe Festival
words that start with d. by Jack Allen Murphy
Directed by Hannah Black
Recipient of the Michael J. Eager Experiential Learning Fund Award from Ohio University's College of Arts and Sciences for my dramaturgical work on this show.
Dramaturg
September 2024 - December 2025
Dramaturg
Ohio University School of Theater
Tipping The Velvet by Sarah Waters, adapted by Laura Wade
Directed by Caitlin Lopez
directing & producing
May 2026 - July 2026
Assistant Director
April 2025
Director & Producer
January 2025 - April 2025
Assistant Director
January 2025
Producer
Terrific New Theater
All Nighter by Natalie Margolin
Directed by Jordan DeWitt
Ohio University Fringe Festival
A Documentary on Steel and Public Health [and the apocalypse] by Claire Waldrop
Ohio University Fringe Festival
words that start with d. by Jack Allen Murphy
Directed by Hannah Black
Ohio University Midnight Madness
Gary Madness by Claire Waldrop and the OU Playwriting Cohort
September 2024
Co-Producer
Ohio University Midnight Madness
Final Girl Madness by Claire Waldrop, Logan Deluca, and the OU Playwriting Cohort
administration & education
February 2026 - Present
Teaching Artist
June 2025 - August 2025
Drama + Arts Curriculum
Developer
August 2024 - May 2025
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Intoto Creative Arts
BridgeWays Alabama + Camp Fletcher
Ohio University's Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts, School of Theatre
Prof. Merri Biechler
THAR 1730 and THAR 2510
Introduction to Playwriting and Play Analysis I & II
October 2024 - May 2025
Community Engagement & Accessibility Supervisor
September 2023 - October 2024
Ohio University Outdoor Pursuits
Operations & Logistics Supervisor
January 2023 - April 2025
No-Man's Land Planning Committee, Producer, Event Coordinator
Ohio University Outdoor Pursuits & No Man's Land Film Festival - Athens Host
May 2024 - May 2025
Administrative Director & S.O.U.P Series Coordinator
May 2023 - May 2024
Student Organization of Undergraduate Playwrights at Ohio University
Marketing Director
literary writing & editing
August 2024 - May 2025
Undergraduate Intern
Quarter After Eight Journal
Reader & Editor for the Prose (Creative Nonfiction & Fiction) Teams, Reader for the 2025 Robert J. Demott Short Prose Contest
April 2025
Published Writer
Sphere
"Good Nature" - Creative Nonfiction
August 2023 - May 2024
Executive Editor & Director
August 2023 - December 2023
Reader
April 2023
Published Writer
First Place Prize in Creative Nonfiction
Re-Verb Magazine
New Ohio Review
Polaris Literary Magazine
"Snow Cream" - Creative Nonfiction