Clarisse Gamblin is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and author.

Most recently, she wrote and co-directed Dancing Man, which premiered at the IU cinema in February 2023 and went on to screen at the 25th anniversary Black Bear Film Festival in Pennsylvania and at the Bloomington Indiana Film Festival, where it won Best Local Film. Her previous films include Midnight in the Park and Graduation, which screened at Circle City Film Festival, Dayton Independent Film Festival, Hoosier Films Annual Festival, and Victory International Film Festival, among others.

Gamblin has a master's degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, where she received an International Excellence Award. She attended Indiana University for her undergraduate education, graduating with a BA in Cinema And Media Arts and minors in music and theatre. At IU, she was a Cox Research Scholar, Hutton Honors Scholar, and member of Phi Beta Kappa.