Emily-Claire Potter
Overview
- Ethnicity
- White / European Descent
- Age Range
- 24 - 34
- Height
- 5' 3" (1m 60cm)
- Hair Colour
- Multicolored / Dyed
- Eye Colour
- Brown
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2012 |
Self
Film |
Transitions |
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2011 |
BA (Hons) Acting
Film |
The University of Northampton |
|
2014 |
BA (Hons) Acting
Film |
The University of Northampton |
|
2013 |
Myself
Film |
We Want You To Be Free |
|
2009 |
A-Level Drama and Theatre Studies
Film |
Hagley Catholic High School |
|
2014 |
Storyteller
Film |
The Highwayman TIE Project |
|
2013 |
Chorus
Film |
A Midsummer Nights Dream |
|
2013 |
Ghost 7
Film |
The Fall of The House of Usher |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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About me
Emily-Claire was born and raised in the Black-Country. She had a passion for the performing arts from a young age, watching her mother regularly participate in pantomime and discussing her grandad’s love of Theatre. Playing Alice in Alice in Wonderland gave her the confidence and fuel to pursue that passion throughout her education, and guided her on the road to studying Acting. Credits during her training include a devised piece entitled We want you to be free dir. Jonathon Young (SHAMS Theatre), The Fall of the House of Usher dir. Trudy Bell (Alias Theatre Company) performed at the Royal & Derngate. She is excited to present an original devised performance with her company, Pure Industry Theatre, at the Flash Theatre Festival later this year.Skills
Languages Spoken | English |
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Accents/Dialects | English - London |
Additional Skills | Acting |
Highlights
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During her time at Hagley High school Emily-Claire was involved in many different performances, both dramatically and musically based. Her favourite of these was her GCSE exam performance of “Blood Brothers”. She played Linda, at several different stages in her life. The first being when she was seven playing with Eddie and Mickey. This scene Emily-Claire found very enjoyable as it was a high energy piece and was fun to play. The next two scenes were when she was fourteen and a mischievous teenager, and then just before Eddie goes off to University. The transition between the age ranges portrayed was exciting, and challenging to ensure that Emily-Claire kept up the humour in the two scenes. The last scene that she performed in the play was the emotional dialogue between Linda and her husband Mickey who by this stage was dependant on antidepressant pills. The shift in the mood of Linda throughout the play was fabulous to deliver, and as a consequence Emily-Claire had to explore a wide range of emotions.
Another performance that Emily-Claire particularly enjoyed was her AS level exam piece, “Trojan Women”. Choosing to stage the Actors of Dionysus interpretation of the lives of the women after the Trojan War, she took on the role of Cassandra, a priestess, who was racked with guilt and fear as her religious beliefs and everything she held dear was torn apart, by the prospect of her becoming a sex slave to Agamemnon. It was a very emotional play and the most stylised production that Emily-Claire had participated in before then. The ability to combine the madness and wisdom of the character was difficult as it was out of her usual comfort zone, but once accomplished the sense of satisfaction Emily-Claire gained from it was immense. As part of the requirement to direct the play, the cast chose to use sand as the baby in the last scene during Hekabe’s monologue, to represent how fragile human life is.