Carly is a writer/director raised in San Francisco by public interest lawyers/activists in a big, loud family. She mostly works in narrative film. She received her BA in Film and Art History from Stanford. She's directed festival-circuiting shorts, political ads, and a monologue series that completed a sold-out run at NYC theater Dixon Place in 2023. Her most recent writing sample, a featured called “Two Roots,” is available upon request.

She formerly worked as the creative/development assistant to director Ruben Fleischer and his producing partners Dave Bernad and Elias Gertler (behind titles such as Zombieland, The White Lotus, Jury Duty, Uncharted, and more).