Vanessa St. Clair is a Los Angeles-based actor, comedian, and filmmaker specializing in character and sketch comedy.
On stage, she’s been featured as an actor/writer for Angel City Idiots and co-founded Back Pocket, a character team directed by John Milhiser (SNL) that had a sold-out run at Hollywood Fringe in 2024. Recently she joined the Pack sketch team, Launch Code, which has a monthly show.
As a featured performer on multiple internet sketch pages, she’s had over 14 million views across platforms. (Check out the media page to see her work with pages John, Liam, & Mitch, Mikey and Wyatt, James Lynch, and Stevie Emerson.) You may have also seen her in Season 3 of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Season 3 of HBO's The Deuce.
In 2024, Wandering Room, an entirely female-period-dramedy-short she produced and acted in was an Official Selection for the Highland Park Independent Film Festival, Burbank International Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Experimental Short at Glendale’s International Film Festival.
She has performed at Pittsburgh Comedy Fest, Green Bay Improv Fest, and for two years had her own weekly comedy radio segment on Q92.9FM, The Bright Side with Vanessa St. Clair.
Passing through both improv programs at UCB and Groundlings, she’s focused her efforts on production and written material and is currently in post-production for Birth Order, the episodic internet comedy she co-created, co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in, slated to be released in the Summer of 2025.