Claudia Chidiac

Claudia is a director, community cultural development facilitator, producer and performer.

Since 2005 Claudia has been the Artistic Director of Powerhouse Youth Theatre (PYT), where she has been responsible for directing, and producing the company’s artistic program and developing training opportunities for emerging artists in Western Sydney. For PYT she is directing How Big Is Your Gun? (2007), was associate director of This Territory with the Australian Theatre for Young People (2007), co-directed Mobile Messenger (2006) and I do…but (2006). From 2006-2008 Claudia is the director of Can You Hear Me? a legal theatre event with South West Sydney Legal Centre. She, previously worked as a freelance director and performance artist across Western Sydney, making work with young people, migrant and refugee communities. She has worked with companies such as Urban Theatre Projects, Belvoir St Theatre Company, Performance Space, Bankstown Youth Development Service and Information and Cultural Exchange. Projects include Girlz Gaze (2004), In Our Name (2004) Museum of Fetishised Identities (2001) and Asylum (2001).

In 2006 Claudia was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts Community Cultural Development  Young Leaders Award; In 2004 the Arts NSW Western Sydney Artist Fellowship. In 2002 she was one of ten young Australians selected to attend an international summer school for young change makers in Wales.