#355: Claire Coffee - Locus of Control

Claire Coffee is an actor, writer, director, and producer who logged her first professional theater credit at age 6 in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an actor, TV/Film highlights include starring roles on NBC's long running show Grimm, The West Wing, S.W.A.T., Law and Order, so many pilots and sitcoms, and the short film Blocks (on which she also served as a producer), which premiered at Sundance and was optioned as a series for Showtime.

As a director, Claire helmed the comedy and spoken word portion of APM's radio show "Live From Here" for two seasons and produced and directed Chris Thile's full length narrative orchestral piece "Attention!", which has been performed with The Knights, the LA Phil, the National   Orchestra and the Louisville Orchestra. With Chris (her husband), Claire co-created and directed the musical variety show The Energy Curfew Music Hour, available on Audible.

Currently, Claire can be seen playing morally dubious DOD fixer Anna Vorpe on CBS' long running series FBI. Season 9 of FBI will be out October 5th so check it out!

We chat about producing, working with her husband and the fulfilment that came from that, Grimm & the famous photo, obsession with air travel & aviation, conventions and the famous yacht, almost quitting & periods of little work, frustration, rejection, doing improv, creativity, West Wing and the role that never eventuated, fear + plenty more!

Also, for the Grimm fans, I've also spoken with Sasha Roiz (Captain Sean Renard), Reggie Lee (Sergeant Drew Wu), and Jim Kouf, co-creator, executive producer and co-showrunner of the series.

Check Claire out on:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clairecoffee/

Blocks: https://www.blocksthefilm.com/

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