Claire Shovelton

Claire is a London-based producer, photographer and visual artist with over 30 years professional experience in theatre, opera, dance and classical music including the Barbican, the Young Vic, Riverside Studios, operafactory, the Royal Opera House, Sadlers Wells, Early Opera Company 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. 

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 – finding ways of telling the important stories, nurturing creativity, sparking inspiration, fostering confidence and creative resilience. 

Claire also has a focus on inclusion and wellbeing in the performing arts, and is Senior Producer for BEAM, an opera project which addresses these in live performance practice. Consultancy work includes disabled-led theatre company Graeae and Citizens of the World, the UK’s leading refugee choir. She is Creative Producer for FXXX BXXXXX Oedipa, Second Movement Rough For Opera, Deal Music & Arts Shorelines, and serves as a trustee of music theatre company Filament .