Claire Shovelton

Claire is a London-based producer, photographer and visual artist with over 35 years professional experience in theatre, opera, dance and classical music including the Barbican, the Young Vic, Riverside Studios, operafactory, the Royal Ballet and Opera, Sadlers Wells, Early Opera Company, Britten-Pears Arts and the commercial West End.

As a photographer Claire specialises in production photos of studio-scale live performance. Commissions for visuals for performance include David Gorton’s audio-visual piece Burgh Castle (The Forge, Camden and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), and CHROMA’s Awakening programme combining Renaissance and contemporary music. Her video installation Towards Light made in collaboration with Katherine Pogson was exhibited at the Lumen Gallery Bethnal Green, Proposition Studios Camden & inspired CHROMA’s music, art and lepidoptery project in Fair Isle in 2021.

As a freelance creative producer she collaborates with artistic director Stuart King (since 2002) for the award-winning ensemble CHROMA, and for the last 18 years she has been involved in various roles at Tête à Tête. With both of these she is very involved in the area of new work, collaborating with the creators of pieces for performance, and mentoring.

Claire also has a focus on inclusion and wellbeing in her performing arts work. Her roles include Creative Producer for BEAM (Nadine Benjamin) and Quiet Songs (Finn Beames & Company), both addressing access provision, equity and collaborative processes in live performance practice, and Rough for Opera, the series that develops opera practitioners and new works.

Consultancy work includes disabled-led theatre company Graeae and Citizens of the World, the UK’s leading refugee choir. She serves as a chair of music theatre company Filament .