Her theatre work included years of acting, directing and teaching as well as creating workshops for a wide spectrum of institutions, schools and universities.

[2] Remi Barclay was born in Springfield, Missouri, but spent her early formative years in Houston, Texas.

Schechner, inter alia, adapted Greek classic myths for contemporary audiences including Dionysus in '69.

[10] Concurrently with Whole Theatre, in 1988 Barclay joined with Dukakis, Leslie Avaysian, and Joan MacIntosh to create a performance ensemble, Voices of Earth, improvising and exploring themes from the Mesopotamian myth of the goddess Inanna, Queen of Heaven, and her sister Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld, as they inform the lives of modern women and men.

[11] In 1995, the American Conservatory Theater at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, presented Euripides' Hecuba adapted by Timberlake Wertenbaker.

[12][3][13][14] In the months following the September 11 attacks on New York City by Al-Qaeda, Barclay assisted in the organization of several memorial services for victims who had lived in Montclair, New Jersey.

[3][20]: 262, 266, 268 From 2010 to 2016, she practiced as an occasional lecturer and workshop leader on mythology, history, theatre and celebrancy.