Clare Arena Haden graduated from UW-Madison with her MFA in Acting. While attending, she taught introductory and intermediate Voice for the Actor classes for the undergraduates and was a teaching assistant for Bassam Shakhashiri's Science is Fun course in the Chemistry Department. She also taught Speak Up, Speak Out! for The Children's Theatre of Madison. Clare performed in many shows at University Theatre, including "Urinetown", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "The Musical of Musicals", and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". With her emphasis being voice, she had the privilege of working with Talish Barrow by vocal coaching his production of "The Love of the Nightingale", which was the basis of her thesis.