Anna Kerrigan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director based in New York City. Her first independent feature film Five Days Gone (which she produced, wrote, directed, edited, and starred in) premiered this summer in both the Brooklyn Film Festival (where she was awarded Best Screenplay) and the Nantucket Film Festival. Her play The Talls premiered this August at Second Stage’s McGinn Cazale Theater. A graduate of Stanford University, Kerrigan has developed plays with Naked Angels, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre.