Yup, I'm dressed like a glam rock vampire in a cemetery and the truth is, I would dress this way 365 if it was more logistical to pull off. My favorite vampire films are Werner Herzog's Nosferatu, Let the Right One In, The 1931 Spanish-language Dracula (filmed on the same set as the Bela Lugosi version), The Hammer Films' Horror of Dracula, and What We Do in the Shadows.
I grew up in Maine, in a spooky small town from a Stephen King story (for real - my town is where the creatures from The Mist were created). Stephen King's stories weren't worldwide bestsellers. To us, they were local legends. It was easy to let your imagination run wild when you lived in the woods. And Stephen King showed us it was cool to be from Maine. He taught us that imagination can be the gateway to the rest of the world.
When I was nine years old I knew I wanted to be a filmmaker. I became obsessed with Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg as a kid and begged my parents to take me to the movie theater to see the same films over and over. I graduated from The College of the Atlantic, a small hippie school on an island off the coast of Maine, where students went barefoot and worked on the school’s organic farm. After a stint thinking I was an avant garde filmmaker, I decidedly came back to narrative stories. Since then I've lived in various places - the mountains of Vermont, the urban jungle of New York City, a yoga center in Massachusetts, the coastal city of Portland, Maine, and have traveled extensively throughout the U.S. in an old renovated city bus with nine other people for three months - while working on a Columbia University documentary about unique roadside attractions with cinematographer Chris Teague (Emmy winner, Russian Doll) .
I've worked in production in Maine, New York City and Los Angeles for A&E, MTV, NBC, TLC, Food Network, HBO and others. I also received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program. My screenplays have won various accolades including Second Rounder at Sundance, finalist in the Final Draft Big Break Contest and Cinestory for my TV pilots "Barb" and "S.P.I.C.E." and finalist in the Stowe Story Labs 2022 for my feature "Peaking in the Valley."
My short films have won various awards including Audience Award at the SENE Film Fest in Providence, RI and Best Short Film at the Noosa International Film Festival in Queensland, Australia - presented by Cinematographer John Seale. My short film "The Getaway," filmed during the height of the pandemic, was nominated for Best New England Short at the Massachusetts Independent Film Fest and won Best Film Noir at the Los Angeles Independent Shorts Fest.
I recently worked at HBO Max in Original Content and Warner Brothers in Creative Advertising where I worked on the marketing team for the Barbie movie. In 2021, I received a scholarship from Sundance to attend their nine-week Directing course. In 2023, I was chosen as a fellow for Blackmagic Collective's Emerging Filmmaker Initiative.
I grew up in Maine, in a spooky small town from a Stephen King story (for real - my town is where the creatures from The Mist were created). Stephen King's stories weren't worldwide bestsellers. To us, they were local legends. It was easy to let your imagination run wild when you lived in the woods. And Stephen King showed us it was cool to be from Maine. He taught us that imagination can be the gateway to the rest of the world.
When I was nine years old I knew I wanted to be a filmmaker. I became obsessed with Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg as a kid and begged my parents to take me to the movie theater to see the same films over and over. I graduated from The College of the Atlantic, a small hippie school on an island off the coast of Maine, where students went barefoot and worked on the school’s organic farm. After a stint thinking I was an avant garde filmmaker, I decidedly came back to narrative stories. Since then I've lived in various places - the mountains of Vermont, the urban jungle of New York City, a yoga center in Massachusetts, the coastal city of Portland, Maine, and have traveled extensively throughout the U.S. in an old renovated city bus with nine other people for three months - while working on a Columbia University documentary about unique roadside attractions with cinematographer Chris Teague (Emmy winner, Russian Doll) .
I've worked in production in Maine, New York City and Los Angeles for A&E, MTV, NBC, TLC, Food Network, HBO and others. I also received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program. My screenplays have won various accolades including Second Rounder at Sundance, finalist in the Final Draft Big Break Contest and Cinestory for my TV pilots "Barb" and "S.P.I.C.E." and finalist in the Stowe Story Labs 2022 for my feature "Peaking in the Valley."
My short films have won various awards including Audience Award at the SENE Film Fest in Providence, RI and Best Short Film at the Noosa International Film Festival in Queensland, Australia - presented by Cinematographer John Seale. My short film "The Getaway," filmed during the height of the pandemic, was nominated for Best New England Short at the Massachusetts Independent Film Fest and won Best Film Noir at the Los Angeles Independent Shorts Fest.
I recently worked at HBO Max in Original Content and Warner Brothers in Creative Advertising where I worked on the marketing team for the Barbie movie. In 2021, I received a scholarship from Sundance to attend their nine-week Directing course. In 2023, I was chosen as a fellow for Blackmagic Collective's Emerging Filmmaker Initiative.
My creative philosophy can best be described through The White Stripes' song Little Room (because rock n' roll will save your soul):
When you're in your little room
and you're working on something good
but if it's really good
you're gonna need a bigger room
but when you're in the bigger room
you might not know what to do
you might have to think of how you got started
sitting in your little room.
May you have fair winds and following seas,
Erin