Vivian Kerr is an LA-based actor, writer, director, and producer with her company Rue Dangeau. She recently won the 2024 Austin Film Festival Drama Teleplay Pilot Award for her historical drama THE MITFORDS.

SCRAP, her feature film debut, co-starring Anthony Rapp and Lana Parrilla, world premiered in competition at the 2022 Deauville-American Film Festival and went on to screen in 44 film festivals worldwide, becoming 'Certified Fresh' on Rotten Tomatoes with a 98% rating, and is now available on Apple, Amazon, Fandango, and Google Play.

​SCRAP won the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Naples International Film Festival, Coronado Island Film Festival, Fargo Film Festival, Fayetteville Film Festival, SModcastle Film Festival, and Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival.

Vivian also recently won the NYWIFT Award for Excellence in Narrative Directing at the SOHO International Film Festival, a Special Jury Prize in Acting Achievement at Phoenix Film Festival, Outstanding Actress at Micheaux Film Festival, Best Director at Mystic Film Festival, the MINT Spirit Award at the Montana International Film Festival, Best Actress at Beaufort International Film Festival, and Best Director at Waco Independent Film Festival.

Her second feature SÉANCE, a Victorian Gothic thriller shot by rising DP Johanna Coelho (HBO MAX's The Pitt), was selected for Wscripted’s Cannes Screenplay List and had its World Premiere at the Newport Beach Film Festival. In 2025, it screened at fifteen additional festivals, including Fantaspoa and Dances with Films.
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As a writer, her screenplay for SCRAP was a Top 10 Finalist in Final Draft's Big Break Screenwriting Competition. Her pilot FIVE POINTS, about the female-led gangs of 19th century New York, was one of four accepted into Sony Pictures TV’s Rising Storytellers Search and was subsequently invited into the Stowe Story Labs, the Story Incubator Writing Lab, the Moonshot Initiative Pilot Accelerator, and included on The 2025 Women's List.

As an actor, her work includes episodes of GREY'S ANATOMY, CASTLE, RIZZOLI & ISLES, SUPERSTORE, MASTERS OF SEX, CRIMINAL MINDS, NEW GIRL, FRANKLIN & BASH, and THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL. She has a Theatre degree from the University of Southern California, and is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity, the Alliance of Women Directors, and Film Fatales.

She is currently developing a feature adaptation of her grandfather's book, The Shabunin Affair, which received an 'Honorable Mention' for the 2025 Stowe Narrative Lab/Austin Film Festival Fellowship.