Staff
Executive/Artistic Director
Claire Van Cott | claire@NCTCArts.org 
Claire is excited to join the NCTC family! She holds an MFA in Arts
Leadership from Seattle University and a B.A. in Fine and Performing
Arts from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. She has been a member
of Actor’s Equity since 2005 and has extensive experience directing
children’s theatre throughout the United States. Claire has served as
Assistant Producing Artistic Director at America’s longest running
summerstock theatre, The Barnstormers Theatre, in New Hampshire, as well
as Assistant Executive Artistic Director at the Jefferson Performing
Arts Society in Louisiana where she developed “TheatreKids!,” a year
round program that provides children ages 5-18 access to a variety of
free/low cost theatrical opportunities.