Visiting Instructor, Media Arts & Culture
B.F.A. University of California, Santa Cruz; M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles
Appointed In
2025
Mo Perkins is a feature film and episodic director and writer who has worked in almost every genre.
Her first feature, A Quiet Little Marriage, won the jury prize at Slamdance and was distributed by IFC. Her second feature, The Last Time You Had Fun, premiered at LAFF and was distributed by Gravitas. Mo directed an episode of MANIFEST for NBC and all of season 2 of I SHIP IT for the CW. Her MFA UCLA thesis was nominated for a Student Academy Award. She’s an alumnus of the Ryan Murphy Half Initiative, We4She, WB TV Workshop, Sony TV Directors’ Program, the Film Independent Writer’s Labs and the DGA WSC Squad Mentorship Program. As a writer, she has sold pitches, written and developed both tv pilots and features.