Hannah Pearl Utt

Hannah Pearl Utt is an American actress, writer, and director known for Before You Know It (2019), a Sundance-premiered comedy she co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in alongside Jen Tullock, playing Rachel, a business-minded lesbian struggling to hold her dysfunctional theater family together. She has been open about her own queer identity throughout her career and has been an active part of New York's independent film and theater communities. Utt and Tullock's creative partnership — built across theater, web series, and film — has made her a distinctive voice in queer independent comedy, blending sharply observed family dysfunction with unapologetic queerness. She has spoken about the challenges and rewards of building a career as a queer writer-director-actor working largely outside the studio system.