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 Resident Curator for 2024/25.
She is author of the chapbooks MUTTOLOGY and tommy noun. (winner of the 2022 C&R Press Winter Soup Bowl Chapbook Award). Her work has been supported by fellowships from MASS MoCA, Monson Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and she was recently named a 2025 NEA Creative Writing Fellow.
She was born in Minnesota and grew up in Seattle.
