CLAIRE TAILYOUR
Claire Tailyour is a director and writer born in Johannesburg, grown in the UK, trained in the USA. She has an MFA from USC film school in Los Angeles and BA from UCLA/Sussex. Her credits include The Blame starring Michelle Keegan and Douglas Booth (ITV/Quay Street), lead directing on The Wives (C5), Beyond Paradise, Phoenix Rise (BBC) and Get Even S2 (Netflix).
As a writer, her debut feature script Mother Wild won BAFTA Rocliffe and PAGE awards in 2020. She is a Sundance International Scriptwriter Semi-finalist and a Semi-finalist for The Academy Awards' Nicholl Fellowship, and wrote the Harper Collins web series adaptation of The Adventures of MacKenzie Blue.
Other directing credits include Waterloo Road, Moving On, Hollyoaks and documentaries Life, Death and Cheerleading, The Forgotten Girls of Dhaka and The Surrogates Club. Claire directed 2nd Unit stunts on Rob Lowe's Wild Bill and Deceit. Whilst starting out in LA she assisted screenwriter Mark Goffman (West Wing).
Her short films have played at international festivals including Sundance, AFI, Underwire and Tribeca.
As a writer, her debut feature script Mother Wild won BAFTA Rocliffe and PAGE awards in 2020. She is a Sundance International Scriptwriter Semi-finalist and a Semi-finalist for The Academy Awards' Nicholl Fellowship, and wrote the Harper Collins web series adaptation of The Adventures of MacKenzie Blue.
Other directing credits include Waterloo Road, Moving On, Hollyoaks and documentaries Life, Death and Cheerleading, The Forgotten Girls of Dhaka and The Surrogates Club. Claire directed 2nd Unit stunts on Rob Lowe's Wild Bill and Deceit. Whilst starting out in LA she assisted screenwriter Mark Goffman (West Wing).
Her short films have played at international festivals including Sundance, AFI, Underwire and Tribeca.
