Acting is a notoriously cut-throat industry to make a name in, but 10 years ago Fremantle-born Claire Lovering was a bona fide star on the rise.

After graduating from the prestigious WA Academy of Performing Arts, in 2010, she hit the ground running enjoying the kind of dream run most aspiring actors would kill for.

Straight out of WAAPA, she scored a role in Black Swan State Theatre Company’s rendition of Tim Winton’s play in 2011, Rising Water, in what The West Australian called a “dazzling first-time performance” as a drunken backpacker led to more work with theatre companies across Australia.

By her mid-20s, Lovering was the talk of creative circles when she won a coveted Blue Room award for her self-penned one-woman show, River, in 2015. She received the Mike Walsh Fellowship, so s

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