Hannah Pearl Utt
Hannah Pearl Utt‘s debut feature as writer-director, Before You Know It, starring Utt, her co-writer Jen Tullock, Judith Light, Mandy Patinkin and Alec Baldwin, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and is being released on August 30 by 1091. Utt is also known for the digital series Disengaged, which she directed for Super Deluxe as co-creator, writer and star, alongside Jen Tullock. Their short film, Partners, premiered at Sundance in 2016. In 2017, Hannah was selected for the inaugural Catalyst Women Initiative, the 2017 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs, and is a 2018 Adrienne Shelley Foundation Women Filmmakers Grant recipient. She is currently in development with Sundance Now for Sweet Relief, the half-hour dramedy she co-created.