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Carrie is a Los Angeles-based playwright, actor, comedian and artist. 

She grew up in a small town in southern Virginia before moving to Chicago, where she studied Fine Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago and then received an MFA in Writing for the Screen & Stage at Northwestern University. She is veteran of the Chicago and Los Angeles sketch comedy and improv communities.

Her plays have been produced or developed at The National Playwrights Conference at The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Humanitas Play LA Workshop, Skylight Theatre Company (LA), Sideshow Theatre (Chicago), Harbor Stage Company (Cape Cod) Kitchen Dog Theatre (Dallas), Gotham Stage Company (NYC), among others.  Her play Colonel's Chicken: A Fairy Tale won a 2017 Holland New Voices. She was one of five playwrights selected for the inaugural Humanitas/Center Theatre Group’s Play LA Workshop and is a proud alum of the Los Angeles collective, The Playwrights Union. 

Carrie co-created, co-wrote and starred in Chowder for FXX’s Cake and Luxury on Adult Swim Smalls.  As an actor, she spent 9 collective seasons playing the news anchor, Mary Gaperman, on Nickelodeon’s longest running live-action show, Henry Danger and its spin-offs, Danger Force and Adventures of Kid Danger. She played Dr. Woods on two seasons of Big Door Prize on Apple TV+. Other television credits include Corporate on Comedy Central, Single Parents on ABC, Uncle Buck on CBS, the ABC pilot United We Fall, the TBS pilot Untapped, and Partners on FX. She has appeared in over 50 national commercial campaigns.

She spends all of her spare time praying to the Kiln Gods at the pottery studio and thinking about that one time an orb-weaver spider fell between her glasses and onto her eyelid.