How Keisha Zollar Prioritizes Kindness + Joy While Carving Out A Space For Herself As A Writer

Mar 1, 2021

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This week on the beat, we have Keisha Zollar! And you may hear her cute little dogs during parts of our conversation. We're a dog friendly show over here- especially in the middle of a pantomime.

Keisha Zollar is a writer-actress-comedienne who most recently worked as the showrunner on Fuse’s The Read with Kid Fury and Crissle as well as the Co-EP and star of Netflix’s sketch show Astronomy Club. Sher recently finished writing on the Apple Team Downey & Adam Perlman drama series based on Michael Lista’s Toronto Life article “The Sting” and is currently writing on the HBO Max animated series One Love. Before that, Keisha was the Writing Supervisor at Busy Tonight. As an actor Keisha has been seen on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, Comedy Central, Nightcap, Middle of the Night, The Today Show, College Humor, TV Land, Funny or Die, IAF.tv, Above Average, MSNBC, MTV, and UCB Comedy. Keisha played the role of Sarah in Believe Her, a short about the moments after sexual assault. She has been featured by Glamour magazine, Fast Company, Paste magazine, etc, and has written for Bitch Flicks, FemSplain, and more.

We talk about:

• how her mother's incredible sense of humor influences her writing voice
• how the Astronomy Club got started
• how she got an awesome writing job while coming back from a near-death experience (so glad you're ok!)
• what to do when you have a bad joke
• the shows that are bringing us joy during the pandemic
• how she got involved with the TV adaptation of my favorite podcast (after this one!), The Read

and more!

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