Winner of Best Leading Actress for The Bridge, Shanghai Short Film Festival 2022
Winner of Best Actress for 3 Seconds In, 6 Seconds Out, Asti International Film Festival 2022
Winner of Best Acting Duo with Riley Marinelli for Wither With Her, LA IndieX Film Fest 2023
About
Claire Shenstone-Harris is an MFA graduate of the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK, where she received the Bonnie Hurren Prize for Consistency in Excellence. She has performed in the UK and Canada, and is now based in Toronto as a film and theatre actor, signed with Teri Ritter from Ritter Talent Agency.
She has a rich imagination, a deep sense of playfulness and is especially interested in devised works, connecting the mind and body through deep physicality, and telling stories through complex relationships. She co-wrote music for a UK production of Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by Jesse Jones (Tobacco Factory), and has Grade 10 RCM violin, and Grade 9 RCM piano, and has curated workshops designed for musicians using acting techniques. She dabbles in writing, playing the many other instruments she has taught herself, songwriting and marathon-running. She is the creator of the podcast Peering Over the Edge, and co-creator of the board game Monster Voices (WinGo Games).
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This piece explores stories of two people reckoning with their own mortality, and the insights, grief, meaning, questioning, healing, and personal changes that have arisen as a result of peering over the edge and considering life in a different way. Created through Fixt Point Arts and Media’s Empathy Squad.