Kerry Muir is a writer and director living in the Bay Area. As an actress, she was nominated for best actress by LA Weekly for her performance as Hester in Athol Fugard's "Hello and Goodbye" across from Jeff Alan-Lee. As a writer, her plays have received awards and productions from Nantucket Short Play Festival, The Kilroys, Gibraltar International Drama Festival, Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition, The Great Platte River Playwrights' Festival, and elsewhere. She taught acting to children and teens at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York and Los Angeles, and The Young Actor's Studio in Los Angeles. Her play "The Night Buster Keaton Dreamed Me" and her play for children "Befriending Bertha" were published by NoPassport Press in dual-language English/Spanish editions as part of their "Dreaming the Americas" series, curated by Obie Award-winning playwright, Caridad Svich. A prolific writer of literary nonfiction, her prose has appeared in Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, Fourth Genre and elsewhere.