Claire Downs

Claire Downs is a writer living in Los Angeles. Born and raised in downtown Chicago, Claire attended Tisch School of the Arts at New York University before being hired to write on a house sketch team at Upright Citizens Brigade comedy theater. Through comedy writing, Claire sold a television pilot to Nickelodeon (Jenny Kim Can Spit?!) and moved out west, where she acted and wrote in the web series, These People starring Jim Rash. Claire has written for a variety of fiction and nonfiction projects, including Visible Out On Television (Apple TV), Ask Dr. Ruth (Hulu), Bitter With Baggage (Hulu), EQUAL (HBO Max), and The UnXplained (The History Channel). Her original scripts have been developed with Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, Forward, Technicolor VR, and Audible Originals. She is currently in the 2020-2021 Blacklist x Women in Film Fellowship Lab, was a 2020 finalist for the Academy Awards' Nicholl Fellowship for her feature film, Tourist Town, and was a Women in Film 2019-2020 Writing Mentee.