Claudia Rene Wier is an associate professor of teaching at The Ohio State University and holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies. She is a DAAD Scholarship alumnus and completed an internship at the Unter den Linden Outreach and Pedagogy program in Berlin. Wier holds an MM in Vocal Performance and an MA in Theatre Studies and sang professionally as a lyric soprano with the Städtische Bühne Regensburg in Germany for eight years. At York University Wier was an Ontario Trillium Scholarship Fellow and a York University Provost Dissertation Fellow. Wier studies 17th Century Venetian opera, Warrior Queen operatic roles, and the first universally recognized operatic diva Anna Renzi. She has published articles in Theatre Survey on Handel’s operas and on Anna Renzi’s performance of celebrity in early Venetian opera. Wier works as a stage director and vocal coach both professionally and in academic settings and is a certified trainer of Lessac Voice and Movement. She currently teaches courses at Ohio State in the areas of music and theatre.