Anna Kerrigan is a filmmaker based in Minneapolis. Her Montana-set feature COWBOYS, which stars Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell and Ann Dowd, premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it won Best Screenplay for Kerrigan and Best Actor for Zahn. It garnered awards at various festivals (Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at Newfest, Audience Award for Best Feature at Nashville Film Festival, Best Actor for Sasha Knight at Outfest), played domestically and internationally and is distributed by Samuel Goldwyn. It’s currently available on Amazon and Apple if you want to check it out. Her short HOT SEAT premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Across Vimeo and YouTube, the short has over 50 million views. She also directed THE CHANCES, a digital series written by and starring two deaf actors, which also premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. She directed one episode of RIVERDALE.
Her Gotham-nominated comedic digital series THE IMPOSSIBILITIES (2015) follows the interwoven storylines of a magician and a daffy lesbian yogi and was licensed by Studio Plus (Canal) for international distribution. It’s currently available in the US on Vimeo. She was selected for the 2020 Warner Brothers Directing Workshop for Television, the 2016 Fox Global Directors Initiative for episodic directing, and is a Film Independent and Sundance Fellow. She’s developed projects and made shorts for Vice/Refinery 29, Funny or Die and Amazon. Indiewire named her one of twenty female filmmakers to watch in 2020. Before transitioning to film, Anna was a playwright in New York, where she was a member of EST’s Youngblood, was supported by the Williamstown Theater Festival, Naked Angels, Space on Ryder Farm and had a play, THE TALLS, premiere at Second Stage Uptown. She’s currently developing and packaging multiple features.
Kerrigan is drawn to diving deep into new worlds, class struggles, the confines of gender, misunderstood criminals, outsiders, and chosen families. She’s an alum of Stanford University and is represented by United Talent Agency.
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