Cara spent her grade school summers attending performing arts camp in New York before attending Northwestern University where she studied theatre and creative writing with utmost intensity. It was in an audition gone wrong, however, that she discovered she was funny! After graduation, she toured as a comedy performer with Healthworks Theatre Company before making the move to LA. But she didn't like many of the roles available to women or the treatment of women in Hollywood so, on a dare, she wrote a short for herself which ended up on the front page of Funny or Die... and she learned she was also a script writer! Since then, she has amassed quite a body of darkly comic yet poignant, female-forward material.
Cara's original pilot Queen B. was awarded the coveted Humanitas Prize and won the 2020 TrackingB TV script contest. Additionally, her spec of FX’s You’re The Worst won the 2017 Austin Film Fest. She serves as a freelance writer for Variety, Shondaland, Cosmopolitan, Travel + Leisure, Yahoo! Finance, and others; her video shorts have been featured by The Guardian, MSN, and even Mobina Jaffer: Senate and Human Rights Chair for British Columbia. Cara currently has a TV series in development... stay tuned for updates!