Clare Sladden is a Meanjin/Brisbane-based screenwriter with an authorial creative voice and a passion for female-driven stories. Her television credits include Good Cop/Bad Cop (Jungle Entertainment & Future Shack for the CW, Roku & STAN), NCIS: Sydney (ESA & Paramount+), Eden (Every Cloud Productions & STAN), and Sunny Nights (Jungle Entertainment & Echo Lake Entertainment for Stan).

In the audio space, Clare wrote on the Wentworth spin-off podcast (Fremantle Media for Audible), and she wrote, directed, and co-produced Winding Road (Broken Head Productions & Contra Stories for Audible), starring Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things) and Yael Stone (Orange is the New Black) and Noni Hazlehurst.

In 2020, Clare was selected for the SPA ‘Ones to Watch’ program — in 2021 she was chosen as the successful participant of Screen Queensland’s ‘Bradford Winters Lab’, a program specifically designed to facilitate emerging showrunners — and in 2022, Clare was named on Inside Film’s ‘Rising Talent’ list.

2024 saw Clare complete an attachment under US showrunner John Quaintance — she also was awarded Screen Australia development funding for her feature film Sophie Next Door, which she’ll write, direct and co-produce — and in 2025 she was selected for Australians In Film & Screen Australia’s prestigious ‘Talent Gateway’ program.

Most recently, Clare was nominated for an Australian Writers’ Guild Award for her episode of Good Cop/Bad Cop and her short film, Faker, was selected as a Tropfest 2026 finalist.