Clare Smith Marash is a New York-based writer and producer. Most recently, she produced the feature-length documentary Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely (PBS/American Masters, 2023), directed by Yael Melamede, which was an Emmy-nominee for Outstanding Politics and Government Documentary. A producer on the new season of the preeminent series Eyes on the Prize, she worked with director Rudy Valdez to unearth stories of environmental injustice, one of the many lens through which the series explores the country’s ongoing struggle for equality (HBO, 2024). She was also a producer of the Emmy-nominated four-part series 37 Words (directed by Dawn Porter & Nicole Newnham), which told the story of the landmark civil rights legislation Title IX and chronicled the multi-decade struggle for equality in education and athletics that continues to this day (ESPN, 2022).

As an author of fiction and nonfiction, she has written on topics ranging from particle physics to political music. She was the founder and director of Lamprophonic, a literary arts organization that curated readings and events in Manhattan, including an annual daylong festival in Riverside Park, co-produced with Summer on the Hudson. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Short Fiction, and Columbia University, where she received a Masters of Fine Arts.