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.
Kristen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Studies from Arizona State University. She is a screenwriter, short fiction writer, and director, as well as editor for The NoSleep Podcast, residing in Los Angeles. Her first short film, Vermin, which she wrote and directed, has been selected for four official screenings to date and was included in an Oscar-qualifying film festival, LA Shorts International. Her short screenplay, Deadlock, was recently named an official Filmquest '24 Top 10 Short Screenplay Finalist. Her short fiction has appeared on The NoSleep Podcast, Season 22 Episode 20, titled “Priceless.”
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.