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About Chloe
Chloe Burns is a comedian, filmmaker, and actor based in Chicago. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in Film & Media Studies. After graduating, Chloe wrote, produced, and acted in various narrative film projects, with her most recent, Trauma Bonded, premiering at the 2023 La Femme International Film Festival in Los Angeles. She also uses her filmmaking background to tell real-life stories in the form of documentaries like The Wallace Project and its follow up, The Wallace Project: Year Four, which premiered at the 2025 RegenNYC Film Festival and won Best Kansas Documentary at the Doc Sunback Film Festival. As an actress, she has studied at Warner Loughlin Studios and Lesly Kahn Studios in Los Angeles, and uses writing and producing to create challenging, dynamic roles for herself. As a comedian, she has opened for Ali Macofsky and performed at the 2024 Blue Whale Comedy Festival as part of a local showcase. |
Recent Project
In June 2025, Chloe's short documentary about grassland restoration in Western Kansas, The Wallace Project: Year Four won Best Kansas Documentary at the Doc Sunback Film Festival. The film premiered at the inaugural RegenNYC Film Festival in Brooklyn, as part of a conference centered around regenerative solutions.
Featured Project
Trauma survivors are often excluded from trauma-centered media due to triggering scenes and heavy storylines. That's why as a survivor myself, I wrote something that I could also watch: an escape that could be honest about painful issues I was going through, without losing its sense of humor along the way.
Learn more about the project at our official website: www.traumabondedseries.com