RECENT WORK
A HORROR SHORT
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY KRISTEN SEMEDO
Grieving the end of his marriage, a man discovers he isn’t as alone as he thought.
“PRICELESS”
SEASON 22 EPISODE 20 OF THE NOSLEEP PODCAST
Struggling to save her job at a failing oddities museum, Cass curates a new exhibit full of supposedly cursed paintings.
“Visitation”
SEASON 23 CHRISTMAS BONUS OF THE NOSLEEP PODCAST
While staying with her roommate’s family over the Christmas break, Sophia learns that even the most seemingly perfect of families carry dark secrets.
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Kristen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Studies from Arizona State University. She is an editor for The NoSleep Podcast, a screenwriter, short fiction writer, and director who resides in Portland, Oregon. Her first short film, Vermin, won several official selections, including Oscar-qualifying film festival, LA Shorts International, and genre giant, Filmquest, in 2025. Recently, Bloody Disgusting picked up Vermin for distribution as part of their “Bloody Bites” shorts anthology, set to air in 2026. Her screenplays have been finalists in Movie Maker Magazine via Filmquest in 2024 and 2025. You can listen to her short fiction, “Priceless,” on Season 22 Episode 20 of The NoSleep Podcast, with more in the pipeline to come.
Her love of horror is the cornerstone of her filmography. Since childhood, Kristen has been emphatic about the entire genre, from haunted houses to high-brow arthouse films. Her writing most often centralizes themes of gender, despair, rage, and family. By filtering fear through such lenses, Kristen can write stories that move beyond the usual tropes of trauma and grief and speak more to nuance. Horror for the sake of itself is rather unfulfilling, and her personal brand of fear contains both requisite dread and social/personal commentary.