Zoe Kerr

Zoe Kerr

Zoe Kerr is a self-taught director, writer, and cinematographer splitting time between New York City and Dallas. She has had her work produced throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex while working with Jonathan Norton at the Dallas Theater Center, Calamity West at Jackalope Theatre, and Franky Gonzalez at the Bishop Arts Theater Center. Her work has been shown to sold-out audiences with Prism Movement...
Zoe Kerr is a self-taught director, writer, and cinematographer splitting time between New York City and Dallas. She has had her work produced throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex while working with Jonathan Norton at the Dallas Theater Center, Calamity West at Jackalope Theatre, and Franky Gonzalez at the Bishop Arts Theater Center. Her work has been shown to sold-out audiences with Prism Movement Theater, and seen virtually by over 40,000 viewers across the world. Zoe has received a Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum Award for her movement play Everything Will Be Fine, a Dallas Film Alliance Critics Choice Award for her short film Out of Hand (which she directed and shot), and was a semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival Stage Play Competition with her magical realism play Heartless Bitch. Most recently, Zoe was named a semi-finalist in the 2022 GrubStreet Emerging Writer Fellowship, the 2022 Garry Marshall New Works Festival, and the 2022 Millay Arts Core Residency, and a finalist for the 2022 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Arts Residency. She is preparing to embark on a six-week long adventure in upstate New York as a recipient of the Arts Letters & Numbers Artist Residency.

Plays

  • Ursa Major
    When his best friend goes missing in a national park under mysterious circumstances, a teenage boy must confront his small town's politics as he pursues the truth of how his best friend went missing and why no one is trying to find him.
  • In My Hands
    When Sascha moved in with her college sweetheart Dan after five years of being together, she thought she had it all figured out. But after Dan is fired for allegedly assaulting his and Sascha's female co-worker, Sascha realizes she may not know the love of her life as well as she thought she did. This play is about survivorship, mental illness, and how it feels to mourn a reality that probably never existed.
  • Bluebeard
    Bluebeard is an experimental solo performance which recounts the tragic life of Maeve as she evolves from being an innocent farm-girl to the neglected wife of the mysterious Lord Bluebeard.
  • Heartless Bitch
    Austin Film Festival Stage Play Competition Second-Rounder, 2020

    Heartless Bitch is a series of vignettes featuring ordinary people and extraordinary creatures. We eavesdrop on the private lives of two sisters, a woman determined to protest God for how he’s running things, a family caught in a time loop, and two immortal beings trying to find love in the age of Tinder. This piece is a glimpse...
    Austin Film Festival Stage Play Competition Second-Rounder, 2020

    Heartless Bitch is a series of vignettes featuring ordinary people and extraordinary creatures. We eavesdrop on the private lives of two sisters, a woman determined to protest God for how he’s running things, a family caught in a time loop, and two immortal beings trying to find love in the age of Tinder. This piece is a glimpse into an irreverent, terrifying, and sometimes poignant world where everyone is hoping to find unconditional love and joy across time and space.