Interviews:
The Dramatist interview, 2018.
MTSU Faculty Spotlight, 2017.
DC Theatre Scene interview, 2015.
To read "Ten Questions" in The Dramatist (2012), scroll down.
Claudia Barnett writes xperimental plays about women and history and science, including Aglaonike’s Tiger, about the first female astronomer in ancient Greece. Recent projects include Theodosia Redux, about the disappearance of Theodosia Burr Alston in 1813, and her collaboration with Pipeline-Collective, Outside of Here, a 12-hour experiment that premiered as a live-broadcast event featuring three dozen performers. She won first place in the Science Playwriting Competition at the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (2023-24) as well as the Andaluz Award Jury Prize from Fusion Theatre (2016). She teaches playwriting at Middle Tennessee State University, where she also coordinates In Process: A Creative Writing Event Series. Her books—I Love You Terribly: Six Plays, No. 731 Degraw-street, Brooklyn, or Emily Dickinson’s Sister, and Witches Vanish—are published by Carnegie Mellon University Press..
The Women's Voices Theater Festival playwrights in American Theatre.
An interview in The Dramatist July/August 2012. Photo by Nikki McFadden.