Jerry Hsu is a writer, filmmaker, and comedian based in LA. After studying Computer Science and Art at Yale, he worked as a product manager at Google, The New York Times, and an artificial intelligence lab. An existential crisis then convinced him to do the unthinkable: quit and move to Chicago to study comedic storytelling at The Second City Film School.

His writing has been selected for The Second City Writing Fellowship and Stowe Narrative Labs, and featured in The Onion. He is the Grand Prize Winner for the ISA’s Emerging Screenwriters Comedy Competition and has placed at the Austin Film Festival, SeriesFest Pitch-a-Thon, ISA Fast Track Fellowship, Anarchists United Writers Discovery Fellowship, and Almanack Screenwriters Episodic Lab.

His work has screened in official competition at Fantasia, winning the Silver Audience Award for Best International Short Film, The American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes, and won the Outpost Special Mention Award at the Fantasia x Cannes’ Marche du Film Frontières Market, where his project was selected for the Frontières Shorts to Features Lab.

He is a TV Writing Fellow with Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad Mentorship Lab, Lambda Literary Screenwriting Fellow under Steven Canals (Pose), and New York Stage & Film Filmmaking Fellow. He’s currently co-writing/directing a sci-fi dramedy executive produced by Lucy Liu.