Clara Strauch is a Swedish/American actress and singer-songwriter. She has roots on the island of Gotland and in New York City, and is creatively fuelled by the contrasts of her bi-cultural background, as well as by inner growth, the heart, myths, and the natural world. 

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Clara released her poetic, mystical folk-pop as her debut album Persephone in 2018, and second album Jupiter in 2020 — both to critical acclaim. She is a trained actress — with a BFA in drama with honors and scholarship from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and plays a role in the film Bergman Island, which was nominated for the Palme D'Or at The Cannes Film Festival 2021. ​The combination of music and theatre has led to working as actress/musician/composer in plays, and she was nominated for Outstanding Original Music at The New York Innovative Theatre Awards for The Tempest (Smith Street Stage). She has performed at major Swedish venues such as Pustervik, and with the orchestra Gotlandsmusiken. Other credits include: her own folk musical Wayward Home (selected for Musikalplattform at Kulturhuset Spira, as well as produced and toured at several theatres in the Northeastern US); Florrie (Västmanlands Teater); Fåfängt Frieri (Romateatern).

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In addition to the performing arts, she has a deep love for her inter-spiritual path of embodiment, meditation, feminine mysteries, holistic healing, and more, and has dedicated much of the past decade to studying and practicing in these realms.