Claudia Alick (she/they) is a national leader, performer, producer, designer, writer, designer and inclusion expert. She is founding producer of the transmedia social justice company CALLING UP whose projects include Accessible Virtual Pride, Producing in Pandemic, The Every 28 Hours Plays, We Charge Genocide TV, Justice Producers Collabertive, F the Gala, Gaming4Justice on Twitch. They work collaboratively on programs like CripCreate, Co-artistic direction of The BUILD Convening with FoolsFURY, Digital Design of The Festival of Masks with LA Commons, partnering with Trek Table as producer and on camera talent, building and facilitating the Mosiac Network (an alternative to facebook for BIPOC theaters and funders), producing Ghostlight Project, and Mouthwater Festival . Her practice is doing digital placemaking creating gathertown spaces for theater-making, protests, and organizing.
Claudia has directed plays like Electra with Access Classics, All My Pretty Fictions in Chicago, and Istwa a Two Long Read with CUJ. She is a curator and access doula with The CripTech Incubator whose projects include CripTech GrayArea Metaverse, Haptics Lab, and Artificial intelligence Lab. With CUJ she has produced many artificial intelligence experiments with visual art, animations, audio and text specifically for use with disabled community. She is in an experimental AI Dance project Zero Remake Return in May 2025. She is a user experience design lead on apps like Followers Forever and Early Words.
Claudia acts as a consultant to funders and companies around the country. She served as co-president of the board of NET for 7 years and is still active board member, She’s an advisor to SF Disability Culture Center, the NEFA National Theater project for 7 years and co-produced Unsettling Dramaturgy (crip and indigenous international digital colloquium), and is an advisor to Howlround Digital Theater Commons. She has performed with NY Neofuturists, and on many podcasts and livestreams. Public speaking highlights include On Pleasure Activism with Disability Visibility Project + Integrated Community Services, AI for the People Black in 2042, and The Smithsonian Afrofuturism Series: Claiming Space, A Symposium on Black Futures. Her online racial justice practice is reaching thousands weekly. She is producing performances of justice on stage, online, and in real life
Visual Description: African-American femme with natural looking hair in auburn or black afro or locks or headwrap. Her cane is visible in the picture.
