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Erica Schmidt is a playwright, screenwriter, and theatre director. <a href="https://www.unitedartistsreleasing.com/cyrano/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cyrano</a>, for which she wrote the screenplay (her first), is in theaters through United Artists on February 25, starring Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennet, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Ben Mendelsohn. In 2001 she was honored with the Princess Grace Award, given by the foundation of the same name. She directed her adaptation Cyrano, collaborating with members of the band The National, at the Goodspeed Opera House and off-Broadway at The New Group. She directed her adaptation Mac Beth at Seattle Rep and off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre and HTP, receiving Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Revival as well as a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. Among her other stage directorial credits are Richard 2, starring Robert Sean Leonard, at The Old Globe; A Month in the Country, starring Taylor Schilling and Peter Dinklage, at the Classic Stage Company; Trust, with The Play Company, for which she received a Callaway Award nomination; and chashama, at the New York International Fringe Festival, where she received the Best Direction award. She co-created, co-wrote, and directed the play Humor Abuse, which won her a Lucille Lortel Award for its production at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

Erica Schmidt

Film

Work in Memory: The Long Road to Cyrano

Sacha Gervasi is a screenwriter and director. His latest film, <a href="https://www.hbo.com/movies/my-dinner-with-herve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">My Dinner with Hervé</a>, starring Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan, premieres on HBO on October 20. He made his directing debut in 2009 with the hit documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil, and has since directed the fiction features Hitchcock (2012), starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson, and November Criminals (2017), with Chloë Grace Moretz and Ansel Elgort. His screenwriting credits include the 1999 comedy The Big Tease, starring Craig Ferguson; The Terminal (2004), starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta Jones and directed by Steven Spielberg; and Henry&#8217;s Crime (2010), starring Keanu Reeves, James Caan and Vera Farmiga. (Picture by Peter Iovino, courtesy of HBO.)

Sacha Gervasi

My Dinner with Hervé, Anvil! and the Stories I Tell

Peter Dinklage