ERIN C. BUCKLEY | Writer + Director

Erin is a writer-director whose digital series PLATONIC is available on YouTube now. The New York Times called the series “a bite-size version of ‘Girls’ or ‘High Maintenance’” and AfterEllen said, "With mellow lighting and a lively soundtrack, Buckley created an aesthetic worthy of Sofia Coppola – and on an infinitely smaller budget.” Her short film CC DANCES THE GO-GO premiered at Frameline in the summer of 2020 and has played at multiple festivals nationally and internationally: aGLIFF (Austin), Reeling (Chicago), Calgary International Film Festival, Lone Star Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival, TIGLFF, Oslo Fusion, Queer Screen (Sydney), Honolulu Rainbow, Way OUT West Film Fest (Albuquerque), Topaz Film Festival (Dallas), Queersicht (Bern, Switzerland), Desperado Film Festival (Phoenix), Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Image+Nation (Montreal), Annapolis Film Festival, Reel Q (Pittsburgh), and Out on Film (Atlanta). Erin won the 2020 Alan Ira Dusowitz Award for Best Emerging Filmmaker of Short Film at TIGLFF. She was a fellow at MacDowell in September 2019 and played a supporting lead in the feature film EITHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT, which is currently in its festival run. Her play ASHRAM was a finalist for the 2020 Ground Floor @ Berkeley Rep and a semi-finalist for the 2020 National Playwrights Conference @ The O’Neill. Her play SISTREN was developed at The Lark’s 25th Annual Playwrights Week. Her original scripts include OLDER LADY, ASHRAM, PRODUCT, SISTREN, SECOND ACT PROBLEMS, PLATONIC (Seasons 1 and 2), CC DANCES THE GO-GO, GUIDANCE, UNAVAILABLE, & STARF*CKER. She was raised by an actress and trained as an actor; in Erin’s projects, roles for actresses are plentiful and female and LGBTQ stories are primary. MFA: Yale School of Drama. BA: Stanford University. Study Abroad: Oxford University. UCLA Professional Program in Writing for Television.

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