If you live in Sydney and would like to see “Record” the short film starring Claire and directed by Aussie actor David Lyons, then you’re in luck! The film will be showing at this year’s Sydney Film Festival! The dates and venue Record will be showing at are:

 •    Saturday, 15th June – 4pm at Event Cinemas: George Street 4
 •    Sunday, 16th June – 11am at Event Cinemas: George Street 8

For more details and tickets, check out Record’s page at the Sydney Film Festival.

Meanwhile, a trailer for the film has also been released! I’ve put the very few screencaps of Claire in the gallery.

 •    Filmography: Short Films > Record (2012) > Trailer

Western Australia’s Black Swan State Theatre Company has announced its 2013 season and one of the plays will be starring Claire!

Claire will return home to Perth in November 2013 to star in “Midsummer (A Play with Songs), a play by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre, which will also star Brendan Hanson (I Will Survive) and will be directed by Damon Lockwood.

The Black Swan Theatre Company describes Midsummer (A Play with Songs) as:

Helena is a divorce lawyer who can’t keep her hands off other women’s husbands. Bob is a small time crook who is getting far too old to be on the wrong side of the law. They meet in a bar on a Friday night. They have nothing in common and should never sleep with each other. But they do.

Their one night stand turns into a crazy and wonderful weekend full of ruined weddings, bags of money, car chases, Japanese rope bondage, sex and stubborn hangovers.

Punctuated by devious and wistful songs on guitar and ukulele, Midsummer [a play with songs] suggests that anyone can reinvent themselves and take their life in a new direction if they only chose to do so.

Even though the play is still a year away, details for tickets and subscriptions are already available at the Black Swan Theatre Company’s official site. General tickets will apparently be made available for the play at a closer date via Ticketek.

The details of the play are:

Location: Heath Ledger Theatre (State Theatre Centre) – Cnr Roe and William Streets, Northbridge (Perth), Western Australia
Dates: 9th – 24th November 2013
Duration: 1h 45mins (features coarse language & adult themes)

For more information please visit:

 •    Official Site
 •    Twitter
 •    Facebook

Claire is set to replace Julianne Nicholson in the role of Sally in the Signature Theatre’s production of Sam Shepard’s Heartless. The play is currently playing, however Juliaane’s previous committments prevent her from performing in the play for the two week extension, so Claire will take her place.

Claire will perform as Sally from the 18th September through to 30th September. The play is part of the Signature Theatre Company’s season at The Irene Diamond Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center on West 42nd Street in New York City.

The premise of Heartless is:

Sally (van der Boom) lives with her mysterious family in a cavernous home overlooking Los Angeles. When a visitor (Gary Cole) arrives, Sally’s dark secrets (and the secrets of those around her) threaten to come into the light.

The play is written by Sam Shepard and along with Claire and Gary Cole stars Jenny Bacon, Betty Gilpin and Lois Smith. It is directed by Daniel Aukin.

For more information and tickets, please go to the Signature Theatre’s Heartless page.

Sources: Playbill, Broadway.com

I’ve updated Claire’s current projects with “The 34th Battalion” and “Beneath the Sheets”.

It’s becoming more likely that Claire will be cast in the role of Simone in The 34th Battalion. The movie has a new IMDB page and you can still keep up-to-date with the film’s latest news at the Facebook page.

Beneath the Sheets has a new Wikipedia page which confirms that Claire played the role of Evelyn in the short film. It was filmed last week in New York.

Noah Bean from “Damages” tweeted today that he had been filming over the weekend with Claire and Reshma Shetty, with director James Gittens.

From what I can work out, the new project is a short film titled, “Beneath the Sheets” which is filming in New York. There is no official confirmation as yet, but you can see more information at the film’s Kickstarter page.

If you’re in the Hollywood area, you can check out Claire’s short film “Engine Block” when it premiere’s at the Dances With Films Festival on 3rd June at 12:30pm.

The screening will take place at the Chinese 6 Theaters in Hollywood and you can find out more information and purchase tickets at the Dances With Films website.

It has been reported that Claire is in negotiations to star in a new Australian film, The 34th Battalion, which is in pre-production. The epic WW1 feature film is set to begin filming on the Gold Coast in September.

The press release from Sparke Films states:

Sparkes are set to fly on the Gold Coast as a momentous WW1 feature film is now in development at the Village Roadshow studios. The 34th Battalion is the story of the real life Army Battalion out of Maitland, New South Wales which follows them to the western front during 1916-1918. The film intends to capture the audience and have them witness the mateship, courage, triumphs and tierney of the ANZAC’s. Primary filming will take place on the Gold Coast with a brief shoot on the North Coast of New South Wales

To represent and personify these remarkable men in history, the production is currently in negotiations with Nick Farnell, Vince Collosimo, Henry Nixon, Andrew Lees, Khan Chittenden, Ashley Zuckerman & Claire Van Der Boom, The international cast will be announced as the production progresses.

Continue reading at IF.

There is another article on the upcoming filming at GoldCoast.com.au.

There is a small official site already online, with a more active Facebook page which aims to keep everyone updated on the project. You can see the official site here.

Keep in mind at this state, Calire is in negotiations to appear in this film. It seems nothing is finalised as yet.