Erin Brown Thomas is a genre-blending writer/director who crafts traumadies — dramas that masquerade as comedies until the final emotional gut punch. Her work often incorporates surreal or suspenseful elements. Many of her stories are thematically driven ensembles and center characters whose spiritual faith is deconstructed and later reconstructed.
As a writer, Erin adapted the best-selling novel MOMENTS LIKE THIS by actor Kristoffer Polaha (WONDER WOMAN ’84) and is currently writing a murder mystery for Hallmark. She’s developing a feature adaptation of her award-winning short film REKINDLED with Maven Screen Media (AMERICAN HONEY, THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT). Erin’s serialized writing includes 4 episodes of Peacock Kid’s TEENSY TINY DIY SHOW. She is a Nicholl Semifinalist. Her unproduced screenplays and teleplays have advanced far in many contests — Austin Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, BlueCat, Scriptapoloza, and ISA Fast Track to name a few. In 2022, Erin’s feature screenplay THE BODY OF CHRIS was ranked 16th of over 24,000 comedies on Coverfly’s Red List.
As a filmmaker, Erin’s short films and independent pilots have screened competitively at AMPAV at Cannes Film Festival, been nominated at Austin Film Festival, and taken home top prize at Catalyst Story Institute. Her most recent film [SUBTEXT] has taken home ten trophies, mainly Audience Awards. She’s been an Artist in Residence at Palm Springs International Shortest and a 2020 finalist for Shondaland’s Women-In-Film mentorship through SeriesFest. Her projects have been curated by Vimeo, received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and been supported by Film Independent’s fiscal sponsorship program.
Erin’s producing credits include the Freestyle-distributed fantasy feature, SHEDDING, and the upcoming 30-minute single-shot-take film CHASERS, which she also co-wrote and directed. She’s shadowed on CBS’s YOUNG SHELDON and Nickelodeon’s ALL THAT. In her free time, Erin dangles from the air as an aerial acrobat. Her YouTube channel Versatile Assassins, which tells stories through circus arts has over 100K subscribers and 16M views. Erin lives in Los Angeles with her husband, a working writer by the name of Jake. Together, Jake and Erin have two cats and several dozen plants, most of which are growing and thriving, just like her!