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Zero Pilnik

Brazil

Biography

Zero Pilnik is an actor, writer, and Drag King from São Paulo, based in Berlin. A graduate of CalArts’ acting programme with a minor in creative writing, Zero received fellowships from Akademie der Künste, LABA Berlin, and the 2017 Tim Disney Prize for Excellence in Storytelling Arts. They’ve authored several stage and screenplays, including Matter (2022, short film), Gasoline Queen (musical, 2022), and 27 Club (solo show, 2021). As the 2021 literary resident at Goyki3 Art Inkubator, Zero wrote the pilot of Brutes, a dystopian queer Western. The series was nominated for the Pretty Original Award at the 2023 Seriencamp Conference, and Zero pitched it live for the first time. They were also a finalist of the 2023 Berlin TV Series Festival, pitching the dramedy Silver Future, based on their experiences in Berlin’s Drag scene. In 2023 Zero traveled to Brazil on a scholarship from Berlin’s Senate Department for Culture and Europe to develop Treif, a series about their Jewish immigrant family.

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