Claire Tudela is a French actress currently based in Vienna. She trained in Lyon, Paris, Vienna and the USA. She is a graduate of the drama school Académie Internationale des Arts du Spectacle of Versailles. Her training included focus areas such as improv, comedy, musical and physical theatre such as Giorgio Strehler mask acting technique, fencing and stage combat, Marcel Marceau mime technique as well as ballet. She was part of several international productions, among them the improv-reality-sitcom Monochrom’s ISS as Dr Claire Saint Jacques and short and independent films such as Le Retour. Some of her theatre credits include Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the role of Hermia and the American Drama Group production of Molière’s The Bourgeois Gentleman as Madame Jourdain. Tudela played at various notable venues in Europe such as the Théâtre Montansier in Versailles, the Gasteig in Munich, and the International Theatre of Winterthur.
Over the years she has continued training with Casting Directors such as 10x Emmy Award-winning Marc Teschner, CSA, and Vicki Goggin and performers such as Ute Lemper and Maya Hakvoort. She has been working as a director and an assistant director for several independent theatre productions as well as for the renowned international theatre festival in Avignon. As a singer, Tudela recorded Austrian composer Alfred Polansky's album based on French poems De la Curiosité du Silence and performs regularly in various concerts. Besides her acting career, she teaches Commedia dell’Arte acting techniques, works as a French speech coach, and is currently co-writing a play. She is a certified scuba diver and thanks to her deep interest in cultures and languages speaks fluent English and German as well as a little Italian.