I’m passionate about telling stories that help us make sense of our present…and our past. That make you think and feel. While wanting to know what happens next. I love crafting strong visuals and working with actors to elicit powerful authentic performances. So far, I've directed a car chase, a dance scene, worked with a fight choreographer, a striptease choreographer, low loaders, children, horses…and many guns.
Erin Cramer is an Emmy-winning screenwriter and director from New York, based in London who makes fiction and documentaries.
Erin wrote and directed the short film ENJOY YOUR VISIT, starring Shahadi Wright Joseph (US, THE LION KING, THEM).
Erin recently wrote an original thriller for Ridley Scott Associates, YOU BE ME.
Erin directed two feature-length documentaries of high-profile stories dealing with race in America, IMPACT OF HATE: CHARLOTTESVILLE and THE BALLAD OF BOTHAM JEAN, both for October Films / Investigation Discovery in the US. Her four one-hour true-crime documentaries for October / Investigation Discovery include films on Rodney King and Patty Hearst.
Erin wrote and directed the short film, THE RING CYCLE, a comedy of pain made with seed money from Working Title that stars Natalie Dormer (GAME OF THRONES). The short played in festivals internationally. Distributed by Network Ireland Television, THE RING CYCLE has sold to STV in Sweden, Short Shorts in Japan (theatrical), Virgin Airlines, NBC Universal in Italy, Condé Nast/Glamour in the US/Canada and Shot TV in Russia.
She has written dramatic musicals for Monumental Films, BBC Films and Slingshot—A PLACE FOR US, QUEEN OF THE DEEP, and SELF-STORAGE. For Working Title/Wildgaze, Finola Dwyer Productions and the prestigious Writers Training Scheme, Erin has written original romantic comedies—100 WEDDINGS, GROUP HUG and THE FATHER OF MY CHILD. She has written an original road comedy for Forward Films—SHOOT AND RUN—and a comedy of manners for BBC Films—MIND THE GAP. She has also written projects for Hart Sharp, Ecosse, Celador and Wall to Wall.
Erin also directed THE LONDONIST for Saatchi + Saatchi’s digital Toyota Positive campaign.
Erin wrote and directed the short film, BAD BOSSES GO TO HELL. Produced by Alexandra Juhasz and Killer Films, the short played in over twenty festivals internationally. It was sold to the Independent Film Channel/Bravo, Film Four in the UK, Cinefil Imagica in Japan, HBO Latin America, SBS in Australia, Canal Plus in France, British Airways and Air France. Distributed by Atomshockwave, the short was one of its best-selling shorts off-line and in the top ten on its web site.
For many years, Erin was also a member of The V-Girls, a comic performance group. The V-Girls performed at museums, galleries and universities across the U.S. and in Europe. Recently, videos of their work have been featured in shows at REDCAT (2017), CCA Wattis Institute for the Contemporary Arts (2016), Ateliers Ouverts at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Paris (2015) and Take It Or Leave It at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2014).
She also wrote and directed Cokie Roberts’ I is for Italy segment for ABC and won an Emmy.
She is represented by Luke Speed at Insight Management.