ERIN C. BUCKLEY

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.” PLATONIC was nominated for The 2021 Queerties for Best Digital Series, and lead actor Summer Spiro was nominated for Best Performance | Digital Series.

Erin’s short film CC DANCES THE GO-GO premiered at Frameline and played at festivals nationally and internationally from 2020 to 2022. It is now streaming on YouTube. Erin won the 2020 Alan Ira Dusowitz Award for Best Emerging Filmmaker of Short Film at TIGLFF.

She was a fellow at MacDowell. Erin’s series UNAVAILABLE was a finalist for the inaugural Proof of Concept Accelerator (2024). Her half-hour pilot of PLATONIC won second place in the 2022 Stanford in Entertainment’s ALL WRITE NOW contest. Her play OLDER LADY was a finalist for the 2022 Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep; her play ASHRAM was a finalist for the 2020 Ground Floor and a semi-finalist for the 2020 National Playwrights Conference at The O’Neill; her play SISTREN was developed at The Lark’s 25th Annual Playwrights Week. Her original scripts include ASHRAM, PRODUCT, SISTREN, SECOND ACT PROBLEMS, OLDER LADY, PLATONIC, UNAVAILABLE, CC DANCES THE GO-GO, GUIDANCE, & PARASOCIAL.

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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