About Zoe Kerr
Zoe Kerr is a director and writer based in Dallas and Los Angeles. 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 genre scripts and short stories.
Her writing and direction has been recognized by the Sundance Institute, Slamdance Screenplay Competition, the Austin Film Festival, Launch Pad, Nashville Film Festival, the Moonshot Initiative, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Arts Residency, and the Dramatists Guild, among others.
Recognition
See Portfolio for project-specific awards.
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
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
Nightmare Magazine — I Don't Relate to You, published March 2025
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