BIOGRAPHY
"I've been told I am ethnically ambiguous." - Clare O'Kane, 20??
photo by Mindy Tucker
Clare O’Kane is an actor, comedian and writer from San Jose, California. She has performed in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, San Francisco Sketchfest, Outside Lands, and has opened for the band Jawbreaker on their most recent reunion tour. Clare has written for Spongebob Squarepants, Shrill, Saturday Night Live, appeared on Comedy Central (dot com) and was the
pseudo-host of Viceland's Flophouse. In 2022 Clare was deemed a Comedian You Should Know by Vulture and she was recently featured on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron. Clare is frequently cast in short films and usually paid in hummus. She has been described as “sarcastic” and “half-Asian”.
When she’s not sneezing, Clare travels around the country to perform stand-up comedy and eat like shit. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with her tall husband and medium dog.