Kerri Stephenson
Writer. Comedian. Big heart. Even bigger forehead.
Kerri Stephenson is a screenwriter/comedian based in Los Angeles, CA, hailing from the suburbs of Atlanta, GA. She studied screenwriting and film production at Emerson College, and has trained in sketch, improv, character, and stand-up at Uprights Citizen’s Brigade.
As a self proclaimed Weird Black Girl, her writing explores the complexities and absurdities of Black womanhood through a satirical lens. Her work has been recognized by Austin Film Festival, The Television Academy Foundation and her mom’s fridge!
Selected Writing
Available Upon Request
Destiny's Diary
(Animated Half Hour Pilot)
Finalist - Austin Film Festival, TV Comedy Nickelodeon Fellowship (2025)
Semifinalist - Austin Film Festival, Comedy Teleplay Pilot (2025)
Quarterfinalist - Black Boy Writes/Black Girl Writes Mentorship (2025-26)
When a young Black witch, struggling to live up to her family’s powerful legacy, faces expulsion from magic school, a strange power falls into her hands: an enchanted diary that determines destiny.
Gore
(One Hour Pilot)
Second Rounder - Austin Film Festival, Drama Teleplay Pilot (2025
Quarterfinalist - ScreenCraft Fellowship (2025)
Charlotte Summers, an anxious Black girl surrounded by power-hungry students at a PWI, thought she was the only one with an appetite for human flesh, but when she meets another with the same hunger, she fails to control her cravings, and becomes entangled with murder, in the name of love.
Southern Charm
(Half Hour Pilot)
Harmony Smuthers is on track to become the first Black female mayor of Peachtree Springs, GA, if her desperate need for external validation doesn’t derail her. As she and her ragtag campaign team juggle the demands of white conservatives, Black Democrats, and everyone in between, Harmony fumbles spectacularly on her way to making history.
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