Erica Schmidt
Erica Schmidt | |
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| Born | 1975 (age 49–50) |
| Occupation(s) | Theatre director, playwright, screenwriter |
| Notable work | Cyrano (screenplay) |
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Erica Schmidt (born 1975) is an American theatre director, playwright, and screenwriter best known for writing the BAFTA- and Academy Award-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 all-female adaptation of Macbeth. 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 in 2001.
Schmidt has been married to actor Peter Dinklage since 2005.