Workshop: Auditioning with Clare Preuss

Auditioning with Clare Preuss

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The audition workshop focused on preparing contemporary Canadian monologues. You are welcome to bring your own material for feedback and/or monologue scripts will be provided. No memorization required!

This workshop is for ages 18+

INSTRUCTOR BIO:

Clare is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist who has worked with innovative creators across Canada as well as in Germany, Lebanon, Switzerland, Uganda and the US. She is a director, actor and creator working within the realms of theatre, film, and live-art.

Selected theatre directing credits include Botticelli in the Fire, Men Express Their Feelings (Downstage, Hit & Myth), Peril in the Alps (Vertigo Theatre), The F Word (Purple Tamarind) Liars at a Funeral (Alberta Theatre Projects, Western Canada Theatre), Beautiful Man (Downstage, Handsome Alice, Verb), A Poem for Rabia (Tarragon Theatre - co-directed with Donna-Michelle St. Bernard), A Dinner Party, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Myth of the Ostrich (Whitehorse Guild), Bystander (Gwaandak Theatre), White Girls in Moccasins (Rhubarb Festival), CAKE (Bayimba Festival, New Harlem Productions, Theatre Passe Muraille), Tuesdays & Sundays (Sundown Theatre), L’armoire des ombres (Le Monnot Theatre Beirut), Salome’s Clothes (SummerWorks) among others. Her practice centres on bold new writing, interdisciplinary collaboration, and inventive approaches to contemporary theatre.

Expanding from her theatre practice into film, Clare made her feature directorial debut with Do Us Part, which premiered at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2025 and recently directed the allegorical short film Hunt/Peck, set for release in 2026. As an actor, she is known for playing Mathlete Caroline Krafft in the original Mean Girls, among other screen roles. 

Clare is the Artistic Director of Downstage in Calgary.

WHEN: Saturday April 11, 10:00am - 5:00pm

PRICE: $60

WHERE: Morpheus Production Centre (1155 44 Avenue SE, unit E)

 

This workshop is presented at this low cost in the spirit of community theatre.

This Workshop is sponsored by Theatre Alberta with funding from The Alberta Foundation for the Arts as part of the ‘Workshops by Request: Hometown Series’