Claire Yearman is a SAFD certified teacher, Great Lakes Regional Representative, actor, fight choreographer, and adjunct theatre professor. Claire is an adjunct professor at College of DuPage were she teaches courses in acting, stage combat, and improvisational acting. She teaches stage combat at SAFD regional workshops, Chicago area theatre companies and colleges/universities. Her study of stage combat started in 2000. She has been an active member of the SAFD since 2003. In 2011 she was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson award for her fight choreography for Red Tape Theatre's For the Love of the Nightingale. Claire has a MFA in acting from Western Illinois University and is a company member of Interrobang Theatre Project Chicago.