Directing
working across stage and screen… crafting stories that are visually striking and deeply human…
film: exploring the quiet extraordinariness of life and the beauty of the natural world through an actor-driven approach… revealing in real time the complexity of being human and in relationship to self, other, and circumstance…
theater: psychologically layered, movement-driven work, grounded in text yet imaginative, ensemble based and visually rich… utilizing multimedia and bold minimal design to reveal the inner and outer world of a story and its characters…
Zion Bennett, GAME
Full Count (2022)
a short film imagining the last days Billy Martin spent as manager of the New York Yankees, and his close friendship with Don Zimmer.
Full Count screened at Marina Del Rey Film Festival, California Women’s Film Festival and was a finalist for the HollyShorts in 2022.
Produced by Dante Salerno
Shot by Gabe Imlay
Edited by Kai Van Der Putten/Sparrow Eye Media
Directed by Claire Elliott
I Am (2020)
produced by 24th Street Theater, I Am peaks into the lives of youth and teens during the summer of 2020. The script is entirely spoken word poetry, written and voiced by the students themselves, challenging perception, identity and the frames the world has put them in via phones, social media, Zoom, race, gender, ethnicity and stereotype.
I Am was shot in and around South Los Angeles in July of 2020.
Written by 24th Street Summer Cool Acting Company
Conceived & Directed by Claire Elliott
Shot & Edited by Abraham Flores
Anybody Who… (2023)
is an original play developed and co-written with students from the Crossroads School Department of Theater and Dance. The play explores the inner lives of six students in a sophomore English class and takes place over the course of 24 hours and ends with one student’s mysterious disappearance.
Anybody Who… deals with questions around friendship, identity, first love, and the line between love and obsession. The story unfolds through the lens on an unreliable narrator who struggles to understand where she belongs in the story, even as she tells it…
Directed by Claire Elliott
Written by Claire Elliott and the ensemble
Choreography by Bryanna Brock
Video by Nick Santiago
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