photo: alan kimara dixon
Maurya Kerr is a bay area-based choreographer, poet, performer, educator, filmmaker, and the artistic director of tinypistol.
Much of her work, across disciplines, is focused on black and brown people reclaiming their birthright to both wonderment and the quotidian.
Maurya was a member of Alonzo King LINES Ballet for twelve years, an ODC artist-in-residence from 2015 to 2018, and holds an MFA from Hollins University.
Maurya was co-curator, alongside Leyya Mona Tawil, of ODC Theater’s 2023/24 season, and was recently named their Resident Curator for 2024/25.
Her first chapbook, MUTTOLOGY, was recently released with Harbor Editions.
She was born in Minnesota and grew up in Seattle.
