Clara York

Recently recurred on HBO's Euphoria and starred in the indie short Try Sometime as a single woman facing homelessness while acting as ambassador of hope in her working class town. Clara appeared on Why Women Kill with Ginnifer Goodwin, recurred as the wife of Eric Wareheim on Tim And Eric's Bedtime Stories. Clara was honored to star in the short film In Our Time, which shot at the Getty, and was directed by David Lamelas, acclaimed Conceptual Art pioneer and produced by the Warhol Foundation. Born in a small town in Maine, Clara never took the short path. Her family moved to California where her father worked as a rocket scientist on the Apollos and raised thoroughbred race horses. At age 4, Clara was cast on Romper Room and delivered an Irish accent in her first commercial for McDonalds. She began studying acting before she could drive, and after high school got her first break on Night Court and Wings directed by James Burrows. Her life took a detour when she moved to Davis, California while her husband Shannon Presby attended law school. She commuted over 70 miles to the Bay Area for television and theater jobs, then moved to Chicago where she performed in a flurry of theater and television series. Clara finally settled in Los Angeles where she and her husband adopted their daughter from China. Clara has performed her one woman show Apocalypse Not Now directed by Jane Morris for over a decade adapting as she goes to chronicle such popular atrocities as post 911 mania, the Station Fire, the Great Recession, Bitcoin and Cancel Culture. During lockdown she wrote a television pilot based on it which was awarded Semifinalist in The Page International Screenwriting Awards Competition 2021 as well as Semifinalist in The Emerging Screenwriters - Genre Screenplay Competition 2021. Clara is known for her satirical, heart centric spoken word which she performs at I.O. West, Comedy Central and Fanatic Salon.