Claire McClanahan

Claire is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer whose work has been honored at the Telly, Gracie Allen and New England Emmy Awards, and screened at the LA Shorts and Arizona Film Festivals. Her feature film, Carbon, was an official selection for the Cannes Film Festival / Breaking Through the Lens finance initiative, a PAGE Screenwriting Awards Quarter-Finalist, a Stowe Story Labs/PAGE Awards Fellowship Finalist, and an official selection for the NYC Mayor's Office / Winston Baker Finance Lab. Carbon was also a finalist for the Tribeca Film Institute Sloan and All-Access Grants, finalist for the Athena Film Festival, and semi-finalist for the Nashville Film Festival. She wrote, produced and starred in Simpatico the Web series, an interactive show in which the audience determined plot outcomes through online voting and has produced branded content for Refinery 29, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Travel+Leisure, Southern Living, Real Simple, and Facebook Live videos for Guinness World Records including a live interview with NASA's International Space Station. As an actor, she has appeared Off-Broadway, in numerous NYC, regional, and touring productions, as well as various film and TV projects. Claire has worked extensively in PR, marketing, and branding for many major brands and initiatives and studied strategic communications at Columbia University in New York.