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Screenwriter & Director
white woman smiling off to the side, writer, director

Zoe Kerr is a semi-nomadic director and writer. Between working as a dramaturg for a movement theater company, educating youth on parole, and being the only woman working in a finance office, she writes high-concept genre pieces centering complicated women. 

 

Her writing and direction has been recognized by the Sundance Institute, Slamdance Screenplay Competition, CineStory, Stowe Story Labs, the Austin Film Festival, Launch Pad, the Moonshot Initiative, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Arts Residency, Coverfly Pitch Week, Screencraft, Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum, the Dallas Film Alliance Critics Forum, and the Dramatists Guild, among others.

Recognition

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency Fellow 2025

Coverfly Pitch Week Selection 2024

 

Dramatists Guild Fellowship Finalist 2022

Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Artist Residency Finalist 2022

Stove Works' Artist Residency Semi-Finalist 2022

 

Millay Arts Core Residency Semi-Finalist 2022

 

Grub Street Emerging Writer Fellowship Semi-Finalist 2022

Arts Letters & Numbers Artist-in-Residence 2022

See Projects for specific awards.

Affiliations

Dramatists Guild, Member

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Member

Bishop Arts Theatre Center First Move Playwrights Lab 2022, Playwright

 

Jackalope Theatre Playwrights Lab 2021, Playwright

Dallas Theater Center Playwrights Workshop 2019-2020, Playwright

Publications

Kairos: Creative and Literary Magazine — He Me Art, published Fall 2020 

 

Discernment and Discourse Reader and Guide — Now Let’s Get Information, published Fall 2019

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