CLAIRE “CLAY” WILD MUNLEY (they/he/she) is a nonbinary, sapphic, neurodivergent, award-winning interdisciplinary artist, producer, and intimacy director who creates experimental, absurdist, and whimsical works.

They are an undergraduate senior at Pace University completing their B.A. dual majors in Theatrical Directing & International Performance and Women’s and Gender Studies. Clay has represented several companies, aiding in devising, debuting, and assisting various productions at Off-Broadway theaters such as The Tank, Theatrelab, and Theater 555. Clay also received their Artist Consent Certification through IDC Professionals NYC and focuses on choreographing theatrical pieces that explore queer, trans, and lesbian intimacy through movement and storytelling. Their work in dissecting intimacy direction, queer performance studies, and devised theater gained them an academic research award titled, “Excellence in Interdisciplinary Studies”, through The Society of Fellows in March 2025.

Over the last year, they studied abroad in Sitges, Spain at The Institute of the Arts in Barcelona, interned on “The Watch” for The New York Neo-Futurists, and were the writing assistant for director and playwright Emil Weinstein (A League of Their Own, Becoming Eve, The L Word: Generation Q). Apart from theater, they’re a writer and production assistant for Primadonna Zine, HU Zine & Magazine.

Their recent direction and devising credits include; MOTHER EARTH, LET ME BLOOM! for The International Human Rights Art Festival 2024, Walls: Chloe’s Story for The Tank and The Invitation Arts Collective, M4M at Purgatory with Rogue Arts NYC, and the music video APATHY for EEVIE ECHOES AND THE LOCATIONS.

Pace Performing Arts and I.P.E.Directing Lab credits; P*SSYSLUDGE by Gracie Gardner (Dir/Intimacy), PLOT POINTS IN OUR SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT by Miranda Rose Hall (Director), RENT! (Co-AD), Antigonick (Co-AD) IPE N.E.W: THE LOVE PILL TRIALS (Jamie/Deviser), IPE N.O.W: THE GREAT AWAKE by Julia Armfield (Dir/Co-Dramaturg), and GHOST PLAY by Persephone Erin Hudson (Dir/Intimacy).