Meet Playwright Clare Barron

by Natasha Wolff | January 31, 2022 12:20 pm

The Yale-educated playwright Clare Barron hails from Wenatchee, Washington, but has made a huge splash on the theater scene in New York. Her most recent play, Dance Nation, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, so theater lovers are champing at the bit for her latest project, Shhhh[1], which she directs and stars in  at the Atlantic Theater Company’s Stage 2 (on through February 20). Barron says she’s only selectively appeared in her own work on stage. “I usually only do it when there’s a strong autobiographical or personal connection to the character. In this case, the play is a kind of catharsis for me,” she explains. “I find it a lot of fun, and actually, weirdly less stressful than sitting in the audience.”

Clare Barron and Greg Keller in “Shhhh”

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