Accomplishments

• Claire has been a playwright for more than 35 years (calculated in 2005), touring with Clare Tree Major Children's Theater and spending two years during the Korean War as an entertainment-music technician for the US Army
• While stationed in Japan, she wrote, directed and produced a show, "Shoot the Works," featuring a Special Services platoon of solder-entertainers. She accompanied them to Korea where they toured the front lines
• Returning to New York, she produced three books of plays, "Children's Plays for Creative Actors," "Plays and Programs for Boys and Girls," and "Dramatized Parodies of Familiar Stories," as well as dramas and comedies published in Plays Magazine
• Her plays have been reprinted in textbooks by Gates, Ginn & Co., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, D.D. Heath, and Scott Foreman
• Claire has written historical pageants that were staged at theaters and schools.