Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Comedian Claire Downs Once Wrote a Pilot Titled 'Jenny Kim Can Spit?!' for Nickelodeon

Writer and comedian Claire Downs once wrote a pilot for Nickelodeon, it has been revealed! Titled Jenny Kim Can Spit?!, Downs submitted the pilot to the network in 2014. Unfortunately, not much more information about the Nickelodeon Original Pilot is available.


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 webseries, These People starring Oscar Winner Jim Rash, Parks and Rec's Jim O'Heir and 30 Rock's Keith Powell.

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.

Claire's script Tourist Town was in the top 10% of scripts for the Academy Awards Nicholl Fellowship, she was a third round finalist for the 2020 Women in Film Blacklist Lab, and a current Women in Film 2019-2020 Writing Mentee. A passionate labor organizer, Claire has been involved with Los Angeles' TimesUp Movement, IATSE successful effort to unionize TV Writers' Assistants, nationwide strike solidarity campaigns through the Hollywood Labor Movement, and Soldiers of Pole's efforts to organize exotic dancers. Claire is repped by Jermaine Johnson at Zero Gravity Management. Claire has also served as a writer's P.A. on Comedy Central's South Park and a pop-culture writer for VH1, and can see her in a number of comedy videos on Funny or Die, College Humor, Technical.ly, and Comedy Cake.

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