ClaireIsUninteresting

I’m getting through this administration by having the occasional mental health cigarette and listening to so much MF DOOM

This. I highly doubt they're going to ban straight porn. They already said before this election, with project 2025, that they're going to classify queer work as pornography.

They're going to ban queer works of art.

I really wish more trans allies especially cis ones knew about this

🔥🔥🔥 aren’t we all

"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create

[every small town in america] yeah so this is the body wall, it’s called that because whenever someone in town dies their body gets fired out of a cannon into the wall. anyway the mcdonalds is up the street right across from the dollar general

bad religion? you mean christianity

Besides playwriting!

I’m also super into Magic the Gathering atm, tattoos, trans shitposting, leftist, horror, book clubs, poetry, fashion, tarot, I’m watching wife swap reruns on Hulu. So if any of that of that sounds like a vibe maybe we can be phone app friends

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Ticket link in case this was interesting and you wanna see what it led to!

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Photo top right of a green folding chair in front of a poster projected for the show: Text below: It was maybe the the twelth draft then when I had my first house shows of Cracks. Even before the show "premiered" at Cincy Fringe, audience feedback was guiding further improvements and changes to this show. After that it was rehearsal after rehearsal. Some with my director and then a lot of rehearsals by myself. It feels incredibly weird to rehearse a solo-show by yourself in a room and I sat on the floor a lot, but the repetition of the show is the only way I can remember all of it.

Photo of my chonky tuxedo cat on top of my script Text below: Bang. Now I have a show. Come and see it - this has been one of the most rewarding projects I’ve done. Feb 2nd, 9th, and 16th at 6pm at The Annoyance. Ticket link in @claire.lochmueller ‘s bio! Don’t regret not getting a ticket early!

Bonus Slide: General advice I received::: Tell stories from scars, not wounds. Be objective with your work and then keep it weird. Share work early with people that you trust who will give you honest feedback. So many life experiences can be a solo-show; what does this life experience say about the human condition? Reading memoirs and seeing shows in this genre was a huge help too. Two of my absolute favorite memoirs are lit by Mary Karr and The Third Person by Emma Grove Two photos, the cover of The Third Person by Emma Grove and the cover of lit by Mary Karr

3. Edit and shape The free associated word dump of ideas needed to be drafted into a script both for my brain to play with the parts of this show and for the people who were going to read it. I called this draft zero and was then introduced to my next favorite tool in making this, a bunch of note cards.

3. Edit and shape Flash cards lying on the ground with Spoiler edited over them. Text below: Every different scene or moment in the show was given a card with a one word description of the section. Then it was a continuous process of going through the script, shuffling the parts, revising and dividing.

3. Edit and shape Photos of even more flash cards on a brown carpet. Spoiler still edited over them. First block of text: After more editing, further dividing parts, making lots of cards, shuffling, and revising this was the structure that led to the final draft. The photo below is my absolute favorite behind the scenes photo. The four cards at the top are the four scenes in the show I consider the pillars holding up the rest of it. Second block of text The revising and editing took the word count down from about 14000 to the 8000 words the script is right now. A lot of things were cut, and the process of defining this structure we found the parts of the drafts that didn’t fit the theme/tone that was developing.

Behind the scenes photos, making of and how I wrote a memoir solo-show in 4 easy steps * *4steps that I jumped back and forth on repeatedly. This is not an exact science. ticket QR code in bottom write Cracks a dark comedy memoir top left by Claire Lochmueller

*4 steps that I jumped back and forth on repeatedly and did out of order sometimes until I had a show: 1. Pick a lane 2. Fill the bucket 3. Edit and shape 4. Up on its feet

1. Pick a lane What on earth do I write about? I called this part picking a lane. I had maybe four ideas I felt like had potential for a show and I started writing about each one in a notebook, just an absolute free association word dump of anything in that "lane.” Two of the four ideas I didn't get more than a page or two, one is my next project and the section that eventually became Cracks was the one that I kept coming back to over and over again.

2. Fill the bucket The lane for Cracks was "The ways you're trans before you know it.” Once I picked this, the next phase was to fill the bucket. This is really what the notebook sections were testing the water on - and then it was just free writing more and more of any story, memory, feelings that were brought up, ideas for a scene, or a word. Writing faster than I could judge without the goal of where it would go was the only way for me to get the amount of material I needed. This material was ROUGH. Rough was good. The goal was the amount. Eventually some of my favorite scenes in the show were a circled idea in the middle of five others that didn't make it into the final draft.

Hi blue sky, I'm going to attempt to be a bit more active here. I'm Claire! I am a Chicago based comedian, actor and writer! I'm a huge nerd about all of them and wanted to share a bit of a behind the scenes about my writing process for my upcoming dark comedy memoir solo show

trans people: find community, find solidarity, steel yourselves for what is to come, but hold onto the joy and the hope that we can still carry

cis people: give trans people money

"Sometimes you have to deal with harassment as a big account"
Fuck that. And fuck you. No, actually, I shouldn't have to deal with harassment.

I love how so much of the media is like

*here is a cis man with no medical experience* ah yes an expert on trans care

Meanwhile

*here is a trans woman with four degrees* hmm seems like a radical trans activist

Not enough Shirley temple 7-up in the world for Eric

Elizabeth Warren you can follow me

Yes Spotify, I love goblincore banjo folk punk, I am doing extremely well with my mental health

if i’m tweeting a lot that’s a good thing actually. means i’m hydrated. sitting on the toilet w my phone pissin a bunch. good health

Really hoping I sit next to the business guy on this flight who just zoomed laid someone off in the airplane boarding lobby

Transitioning is a long difficult marathon and every step is worth it to finally get kicked out of ‘The Boys’ group chat

Ratatouille 3, but it’s about a DIY HRT provider

Watching Chase bank gradually notice my decrease in income has the same feeling as a distant aunt who doesn’t really care if you’re doing well

Portland is a bizarre city, weird proud boys at the gas station and also the most gorgeous queer people I’ve ever seen

Got ready for my trip to Portland by watching The Green Room

world of warcraft? you mean america?

I have absolutely avoided the bathroom or avoided food/water to avoid using the bathroom if I know I am going to be in public.

It's going to get worse.

it’s about to get very, very hard to be transgender in the united states. likely harder than it’s been in american history. do not let them scare you into backing down. do not give into transphobes framing. stand up to them however you can. it shouldn’t be this way but we have to fight

Suburban Chicago Catholic drama just hits different