comedy

Erica Lies is a comedy writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and the Washington Post. She’s won numerous script awards, is a four-time Second Rounder in the Austin Film Festival, and is a long-time producer for live storytelling phenomenon, Mortified. You can read more of her writing by Googling her, but good luck with that. Her last name is a verb.

SELECTED writing:

satire & Humor:

New Yorker Daily SHouts:

Washington POst:

McSweeney's Internet Tendency:

the belladonna:

Splitsider Humor Section:

 

accolades

  • Pilot #VANLIFE: SECOND FOUND, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL 2022; AUDIENCE WINNER, FIRST THREE PAGES LIVE 2019

  • TV Pilot BEARD MOUNTAIN: SECOND ROUND, ATX TV PITCH COMPETITION 2019; WINNER, WEST VIRGINIA WRITERS SCREENWRITING AWARD 2018; FIRST RUNNER UP IN PEOPLE’S PILOT CONTEST 2018; SEMI FINALIST IN ATX TV PITCH COMPETITION 2015

  • TV Pilot OPEN: WINNER, PEOPLE’S PILOT CONTEST 2017; 2ND PLACE, WEST VIRGINIA WRITERS SCREENWRITING AWARD 2018

  • TV Pilot MOUNT OLYMPUS HIGH: SECOND ROUND IN ATX TV PITCH COMPETITION 2017

  • TV Pilot EDGEWICK COMMONS (CO-WRITTEN): AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL SECOND ROUND 2015 & 2016; RUNNER UP IN PEOPLE’S PILOT CONTEST 2015; QUARTER FINALIST IN SCREENCRAFT PILOT CONTEST 2015

  • TV Pilot STATE U (CO-WRITTEN): AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL SECOND ROUND 2014; FINALIST IN AUSTIN FILM FEST & ATX TV FESTIVAL PITCH COMPETITIONS 2014

  • GIRLS spec script, “DIVORCE SONG”: WINNER, GOLD PRIZE IN WORLD SERIES OF SCREENWRITING; 4TH PLACE IN SPEC-SCRIPTACULAR 2014

  • HAPPY ENDINGS spec script, “DINNER PARTY LIKE IT’S 1999”: SEMIFINALIST IN ACCLAIM SCRIPT CONTEST & SPEC-SCRIPTACULAR 2013

 

press

View clippings from Erica’s performances on stages and small screens.