Erica Schmidt (born 1975) is an American
theatre director
A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...
,
playwright
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Readin ...
, and
screenwriter
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best known for writing the
BAFTA
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- and
Academy Award
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-nominated 2021 film ''
Cyrano'', based on her 2018 stage musical of
the same name. The musical premiered at the
Goodspeed. She was nominated for the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Sunset Film Circle Award for Best Screenplay.
In 2020, Schmidt received nominations for the
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play and
Outstanding Revival of a Play for her
off-Broadway
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all-female adaptation of ''
Macbeth
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''. She has created and directed several other off-Broadway plays, including ''Humor Abuse, The Play Company'', ''Lucy'', and ''
A Month in the Country.''
She received a Robert and Gloria Hausman Theater Honor from the
Princess Grace Foundation
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in 2001.
Schmidt has been married to actor
Peter Dinklage
Peter Hayden Dinklage (; born June 11, 1969) is an American actor. Portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2019), Dinklage won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama S ...
since 2005.
References
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1975 births
Living people
21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
21st-century American screenwriters
American dramatists and playwrights
American theatre directors
American women dramatists and playwrights
American women screenwriters
American women theatre directors