Claudia Osborne is a director, writer and dramaturg, and currently the inaugural Young Artist Program Director at Opera Australia. Claudia often works in a devised, image-led capacity, drawing on her background in visual arts to create distinctive theatrical landscapes.

 

Her directing credits include Everybody (Actors Centre Australia), Scab (Australian Theatre for Young People), Unsanctified (Phoenix), BURN WITCH BURN (FERVOUR/Old Fitz), Picnic At Hanging Rock (NIDA), Destroy, She Said (FERVOUR/25A) and Delilah By The Hour (FERVOUR/Brand X Flying Nun).

 

As an assistant director in theatre, Tell Me I’m Here (Belvoir St Theatre, dir. Leticia Caceres), Love and Information (NIDA, dir. Anthea Williams), The Cherry Orchard (Belvoir St Theatre, dir. Eamon Flack), The Real Thing (Sydney Theatre Company, dir. Simon Phillips), and Titus Andronicus (Bell Shakespeare, dir. Adena Jacobs). 

 

Claudia was a 2022 Gloria Payten and Gloria Dawn Foundation Fellow. She holds a Bachelor of Arts/Fine Arts from UNSW and UNSW Art and Design (2017), and an MFA in Directing for Performance from NIDA (2019).

 

In 2024, Claudia wrote and directed her first short film, Rash, which premiered at the

Festival des Antipodes, Saint-Tropez in October. For Rash, she received the AFTRS Award for Best Australian Screenplay Award and a Highly Commended Outstanding Emerging Female Director at the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival.