Claudia Osborne

Claudia Osborne is a director, writer and dramaturg. Claudia’s work on stage and screen is heavily influenced by her visual arts training, often working in an image-led capacity, drawing on her background in visual arts to create distinctive theatrical landscapes.

In 2014, torn between studying Creative Writing or Sculpture and Performance Art she began a double degree in Fine Arts and Arts at UNSW and UNSW Art and Design (formally COFA). In 2019 she completed a MFA in Directing for Performance at NIDA. Since then, Claudia has worked with Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company and Bell Shakespeare.

Claudia was a 2022 Gloria Payten and Gloria Dawn Foundation Fellow, giving her the opportunity to travel to Germany to work with Lydia Steier and the Berlin Philharmonic on Strauss’s Die Frau Ohne Schatten. What began as an observational role quickly turned into a formal assistant directing position – a true baptism by fire.

In 2020, Claudia was one of four emerging practitioners who completed a three-month theatre residency as part of the Create NSW and Griffin Theatre Company Incubator Fellowship.

In 2024, Claudia wrote and directed her first short film, Rash, which premiered at the Festival des Antipodes, Saint-Tropez in October. In 2025, she will direct/co-create Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s Life Is A Dream across the road at Belvoir’s downstairs theatre.

When she’s not reading, rehearsing, or in an audience herself, you can find Claudia enjoying one of Sydney’s best sandwiches in the park with her partner and their whippet, Olive.

Experiences

Director/Adapter – Spring Awakening (2024) – National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)
Director – Scab (2024) – Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP)
Co-director – Unsanctified (2023) – Phoenix Central Park
Assistant Director (dir. Lydia Steier) – Di Frau Ohne Schatten (2023) – Baden Baden Festspielhaus
Director– Picnic At Hanging Rock (2022) – National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)
Assistant Director (dir. Leticia Caceres) – Tell Me I’m Here (2022) – Belvoir St Theatre
Director – BURN WITCH BURN (2022) – Old Fitz Theatre
Director/Adapter – Destroy She Said (2022) – 25A Belvoir St Theatre
Assistant Director (dir. Eamon Flack) – The Cherry Orchard (2021) – Belvoir St Theatre
 Assistant Director (dir. Simon Philips) – The Real Thing (2019) – Sydney Theatre Company
Assistant Director (dir. Adena Jacobs) – Titus Andronicus (2019) – Bell Shakespeare