Erin Doyle Cooper is a screenwriter, director, and creative-turned-commercial director who makes character driven, cross-genre films that challenge the status quo. Her shorts have been selected at major fests including the Oscar-Qualifying Atlanta, Cleveland, Cinequest, Indy Shorts, and HollyShorts Film Festivals. Her film Believe Her, starring Allison Tolman, won Best Global Short: Narrative at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival, and True Love Waits, a short about growing up in purity culture, has over 100K views on YouTube. Her most recent, a cringe comedy called Donor, is currently on the festival circuit after premiering at HollyShorts.
She has also written several feature scripts, and is in the process of financing two: The Mother of the Ram Horns, the feature length version of her Western Horror short The Invaders, and a romantic comedy titled One Last Christmas.
Major brand work includes directing the multiple award-winning #NoApologiesPeriod campaign for Midol, and a two year stint in-house at Pepsi, where she and a partner led advertising creative for Lady Gaga’s Halftime Show and the Super Bowl spot starring Cindy Crawford. Currently, she freelances as a Commercial Director on the roster at Laundry. In addition to a BFA in Acting from SUNY Buffalo, she studied classical acting at LAMDA and sketch/improv at UCB. She lives in LA, where she recently completed the Women in Film Mentoring Program.