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.