Claire DeJean appeared as a contestant on the 15th season of The Voice and now she’s touring the U.S. with the Broadway play Stereophonic!
The singer-actress, who previously appeared in the movie A Complete Unknown opposite Timothee Chalamet, is opening up about her initial dreams of a music career, which led to a musical theatre career.
“I grew up with more of a music background and spent a lot of time writing music in high school. I was on The Voice for a brief period. I have a strange trajectory. I didn’t really know where I was going to go next, and theater school taught me so much about being an actor and broadening my horizons,” Claire told BroadwayWorld.com.
Claire was on Kelly Clarkson‘s team during the Fall 2018 season, making it all the way to the Knockouts round. She was only 17 at the time!
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She added, “I had a musical-theater love since I was pretty young, then I fell into performing and writing and pop singing. I also auditioned for straight acting schools. I was like, ‘Wherever the wind blows me is the right place.’ Since graduating, I hadn’t been working much in musical theater—I was doing a lot of TV and film work. So this feels like a homecoming.”
Claire is now focused on acting.
“Honestly, I really enjoy acting right now,” she told BWW. “I’ll always love writing music and want to come back to it, but I’m curious about doing an acting project after this show. I would also obviously love to do another Broadway show, but I’m kind of curious about doing something almost completely different than this. That might just be a theme in my life—it’s nice to just kind of follow what opportunities come.”
In Stereophonic, Claire is playing the role of Diana, the lead singer of the band featured in the play. She opened up about how she relates to the character.
“She has this talent and this very loose confidence. She loves to write and express herself through music. Looking at women in this time, I don’t think she’s able to express her feelings loudly in real life, so writing is an outlet for her. I relate a lot to that. And she constantly wonders: Am I enough? Am I good enough to be here? I love doing this—why is it sticking? It’s scary but thrilling,” she said.
You can catch Claire in Stereophonic at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre through January 2. Get tickets now and see if the tour is coming to a city near you soon!
