Clare Solly is a storyteller. A confessed seltzer aficionado, mild coffee fanatic and an ex Californian/assimilated New Yorker for fifteen years, she has had a patchwork quilt of experience on and off stage. 

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Clare is a multi-hyphenate and has been performing for over thirty-five years including a couple of Off-Broadway credits and a fancy-schmancy San Tropez best supporting actress nomination from 2015. She also occasionally competes in beauty pageants and holds the national title of America's National Elite Natural Queen. For innocent bystanders it's good to know that at any time she could burst into a story or song, sometimes in Shakespearean Iambic Pentameter, while wearing a crown...and will write you a novel while doing it. 

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She ran The Bechdel Group for almost eight years, and she truly believes the world needs more meaty roles for women and under represented groups in theater and film and it gave her the appetite and skills to be a great editor and dramaturg.  While working with Company of Fools Theater, Clare helped develop many new projects including Dare to Fail Fest and she directed both the virtual and in-person productions of the superhero play "Blackout." Clare loves producing contemporary productions with Patrynize Productions like Campy Cabarets, the 2024 NYC Fringe Festival Award winning The Fountain or podcasts like Tales From The Labyrinth. She also served on the board of off-Broadway Playhouse 46 for a year. Clare served as the costumer and in house set designer for The Vanguard Theater in Fullerton, California for two years.

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Find her on social media @actinglikeclare for theater related posts or on her bookstagram/booktok: @youwontbesolly

Her books can be found on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.