Cara studied drama and creative writing at Northwestern University, but it wasn’t until an audition gone (very) wrong that she discovered she was funny. After graduation, she performed on the Chicago theatre circuit and toured the midwest as a comedy performer 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 discovered she was a writer! Always down for a plot twist, Cara has since amassed 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, The Huffington Post, 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!