Claire Blake (* 1985), born in Dublin (IRL) is a costume designer and prospective director with an experimental approach to opera and musical theater. After completing her training as a costume designer at the Edinburgh College of Art from 2008 to 2011, she immediately started a Master-programme in Performance Design and Practice at Central Saint Martins in London were she also directed and wrote screen-plays. She is an active member of the  board of the MO.Ë Vienna, and chairwoman of KoKo: COLLABORATIVE KOLLEKTIV – Association for New Music Theater and Opera in Vienna. Claire Blake worked for the Scottish Opera, Edinburgh Fringe, Traverse Theater Edinburgh, the Vienna Pocket Opera, Sirene Opera Theater, Bahamut Productions and DSCHUNGEL WIEN. Since 2015 she is also a member of KÖRPERVERSTAND. TANZTHEATER WIEN (AT). She lives and works in Vienna.