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.
[1] She was nominated for the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Adapted Screenplay[2] and the Sunset Film Circle Award for Best Screenplay.
[3] 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.
[4][5] She received a Robert and Gloria Hausman Theater Honor from the Princess Grace Foundation in 2001.
[6] Schmidt has been married to actor Peter Dinklage since 2005.