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 at Fantasia, The American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes Film Festival and was selected for Frontières Market Shorts to Features Lab, organized by Fantasia in partnership with Cannes.

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.