Claire Louise Amias is an actor and playwright. She has worked extensively on screen and stage, including feature films, No. 1 touring, West End and regional theatre.She is also Co-Artistic Director of A Monkey With Cymbals Theatre Company and has written, acted in and produced several projects. The Masks of Aphra Behn is an Offie award-winning one-woman show about the first professional female writer in the English language; the show went on a national tour and helped raise funds for the successful A is for Aphra statue campaign. She wrote a follow-up play, Oranges & Ink, about Behn’s possible friendship with Nell Gwynn; this was Offie-nominated and had a West End run. Her current project is Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit, which will begin touring the UK on 24 October, running until May next year. This is an adaptation of three of Edith Nesbit’s creepiest stories. Find out more about Claire and book for Haunted Shadows at https://www.amonkeywithcymbals.co.uk/

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