BlueGreen Productions was founded by Claire Porter in 1996.
It is an arts organisation with a particular interest in the merger of text and physicality, and the use of mixed media. It works to further the possibilities of combined disciplines and its mission is to bring together artists of varied disciplines to explore and illuminate issues of the human condition; and to develop the artist´s work by the collaborative process.
BlueGreen creates works that are bold, innovative, challenging and visceral.
The company creates or selects projects like Wine, Chips and Funerals and The Drowning Point, and unites artists from appropriate fields to work towards the best means of communicating each project’s ideals.
The Core Team of BlueGreen Productions’ Collaborators, Creators and Advisers -
Claire Porter - Creative Producer
Louise Tischler - Project Manager
Scott Williams - Theatrical Adviser, Director
Alejandro Sesma - Film Adviser, Director
Manuela Granziol - Stills Photographic Artist
Lucie Pankhurst - Movement Adviser, Choreographer
Mike Willox - Music and Soundscape
Claire Porter
Claire Porter trained as a dancer at the Royal Ballet School and the Rambert Academy. She danced with London City Ballet Company at Sadlers Wells, and internationally and enjoyed a ten-year career. She was dancing David Bintley’s Sacrificed Maiden at The Royal Opera House when Mark Rylance asked her to join his company for The Tempest at The Globe Theatre.
In 1996 she founded BlueGreen Productions.
In 2007 she wrote Wine, Chips and Funerals and developed the play at the Royal Court Theatre’s Play Writing Course.
Her adaptation of The Drowning Point into a solo show was produced by BlueGreen Productions and gathered exceptional reviews at Edinburgh 2005. It was then invited by Ian Talbot, to play the Regent’s Park Studio Season, in 2006.
In 2002 She won the Edinburgh Fringe First Award for co-devising and performing in 100 with the Imaginary Body Theatre Co. Reviewers said, ‘The Charismatic Claire Porter, like a dramatic haiku.’
100 transferred to The Soho Theatre, and toured to The Toronto International Theatre Festival, Australia and Brazil.
Claire was Miss Drill in The Worst Witch for ITV, (BAFTA. USA Syndicated), and has played with The Royal Exchange Theatre, The Globe Theatre, Haymarket Theatre Royal, Paines Plough Laboratory, E.N.O. and Opera North, Stephen Pimlott’s Carmen at Earls Court and Tokyo; Sarah in Pinter’s The Lover, and the London cast of Felix Ruckert’s internationally acclaimed RING at The Place Theatre.
Her three new films are, Strauss Films’ Space Invaders, and in 2007, Jewel and Eme’s Story - Lodestone Films, and A Hat For The Camel, for Brodie Films.
In 2009 Claire will play Ede will play in the feature film, Goddess, for Brodie Films to be directed by Alejandro Sesma.
