Claire Healy
www.clairehealymusic.com
Musical Director, Composer
  • Claire Healy is a musical director, composer, actor and performer (keys/vocals) who has worked in theatre across the globe. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theatre from the Ballarat Arts Academy, and a Master of Music in Interactive Composition from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).

    Claire was the Musical Director/Keys for the Australian premier of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 at Sydney's Darlinghurst Theatre, and the Musical Director/Keyboards for the Australian and New Zealand tours of Six the Musical. In 2021 she was Musical Director/Piano for the Australian premiere of Well Behaved Women by Carmel Dean at the Hayes Theatre, Sydney.

    She composed music for the Irish national tour of the critically acclaimed Low Level Panic, directed by Justin Martin (The Crown, The Inheritance) before its reworking in Sydney at the Old Fitz Theatre, and assisted on the development of Black Balloon the Musical at the Bush Theatre UK. Other compositional work includes: Lightning Jar Theatre's Stupid F*cking Bird and Venus in Fur, The Tosca Project(Australia Council), Tart (Galway Theatre Festival), Caligula (Theatreworks), and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, directed by Michael Kantor for the VCA, for which she was also musical director.

    She has completed international tours of her original solo cabarets, with sold-out shows in Edinburgh, Adelaide and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In 2013, she was named the #1 Most Popular Cabaret on Twitter, for Flamboyant: Like A Flame, But Buoyant at the Edinburgh Fringe, and was nominated for Best Cabaret at Perth Fringeworld in 2016 for her show A Little Too Much Information.

  • Production
    Role
    Company / Director
    NATASHA, PIERRE AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812 (2023)
    Musical Director
    Darlinghurst Theatre / Dir: Dean Drieberg
    AUSSIE BROADBAND (2023)
    Mum
    TV Commercial
    SIX THE MUSICAL (2022-2019)
    Musical Director
    Michael Coppel, Louise Withers / Australian Tour
    CALIGULA (2022)
    Composer
    Theatre Works / Dir: Robert Johnson
    WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN (2021)
    Musical Director
    Hayes Theatre / Dir: Blazey Best
    THE LADY IN THE VAN (2019)
    Social Worker / Pianist
    Melbourne Theatre Company / Dir: Dean Bryant
    CLARK RUBBER (2019)
    Customer
    TV Commercial
    GET A REAL JOB (2018)
    Solo Cabaret
    Hot Mess Productions / Dir: Karlis Zaid
    IMPURE THOUGHTS (2017)
    Solo Cabaret
    Hot Mess Productions / Dir: Karlis Zaid
    ABBY SMARTY PANTS (2014)
    Performer
    Edinburgh Fringe / Dir: JD Henshaw
    A BIT OF AN OVERSHARE (2014)
    Solo Cabaret
    Hot Mess Productions / Dir: Casey Gould
    YOU HAVE BEEN WATCHING (2013)
    Various roles
    Frantic Theatre Company / Dir: Patrick Walsh
    KING LEAR (2011)
    Goneril
    Ozact / Dir: Bruce Widdop
    ROMEO AND JULIET (2011)
    Juliet
    Ozact / Dir: Bruce Widdop
    * ABRIDGED CV ABOVE