Claire Soleil Gardner (They/She) is a multi-disciplinary playwright, director, dramaturg, and performer with a BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University. Based in Boston and NYC, recent work includes Selection for Native Voices Short play Festival 2025, resident of the inaugural cohort of the New to the Neighborhood Residency with What Will the Neighbors Say?, The Kittie Knox Plays commissioned by Plays in Place, playing “Moon” in Two Spirit F(l)ag by Ty Defoe in the Say Gay Plays festival at NYU Skirball, and assistant direction of Number Our Days at the Perelman Performing Arts Center. Claire is a proud Indigenous (Métis-Plains Cree) queer individual whose passion for history, education, and social justice are central to their work.