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Erin
Rye
Author
Creative writer working across formats to make you laugh, gasp, and think about your choices.
Resorting to romance
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After an almost-one-night-stand, a promotion-hungry food and beverage manager and a creatively stalled hotel exec head to Palm Springs under a strict no-sex pact–but restoring a faded Old Hollywood resort may cost her the promotion, her friends, and her heart.
A spicy slow-burn romantic comedy
for fans of Ava Wilder, Mazey Eddings,
and Katherine Center.
**89k words**
**big friendship vibes**
**vibrant settings**
**neurodivergent rep**
**literal food porn**
listen to
chapter one now!
Melanie Weaver is fuming. Her shitty ex/boss just humiliated her in front of high-powered investors…again. She’s aching to blow off some steam and when the sexy stranger at the bar with sparkling amber eyes turns out to be hotel wunderkind Rami Caldwell, she throws caution to the wind (as she so often does). They’re on the verge of going home together when her boss rudely interrupts their tete-a-tete and drops a major bombshell: meet your new co-worker, Mel! Oh, and you’re BOTH headed to Palm Springs.
To avoid crossing the line, they strike a deal: he’ll help her get a big promotion, and she’ll help him get his groove back after an embarrassing creative slump. And sex is absolutely NOT on the menu. But as they work together night and day to reinvigorate a dilapidated resort brimming with Old Hollywood charm, those well-constructed boundaries begin to wobble and the connection between Mel and Rami starts to feel like the real deal.
When Mel’s friends show up in Palm Springs to celebrate her 30th birthday with an unwelcome guest in tow, LA reality bursts their magical Palm Springs bubble, and everything Mel had hoped to avoid comes crashing in on her. With her promotion, friendships, and maybe even the love of her life on the line, Mel must untangle this mess piece by piece if she wants any chance at lasting happiness.
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Lady Parts
Comedy, Short, 10 min.
A not-yet-famous actor finally gets her big break only to realize the glass ceiling can also be a camera lens. She experiences a series of funny-because-they’re-true setbacks and putdowns as she barrels toward her breaking point and has to decide what's more important: her dignity or her career.
**WINNER Best Narrative Short Tallgrass Film Festival**
**WINNER Best Narrative Hollyshorts Film Festival**
Witch Hunt
Single-cam comedy, half-hour, 33 pgs
When they accidentally kill the worst president ever, four millennial witches must learn to control their powers before all hell (literally) breaks loose. As edgy, boundary-pushing, and female-friendship-positive as Broad City,
but with more witches and lesbians.
*Second-round selection Austin Film Festival Writer's Conference*
Kiss the Brides
Rom-com, Short, 16 pgs
When Annie and Blair meet unexpectedly at a wedding, sparks fly. These opposites attract like magnets, but can they reconcile their different plans for the future?
*Second-round selection Austin Film Festival Writer's Conference*
*Quarter-finalist selection Hollyshorts*
Boiling Point
Drama, Short, 7 min.
When Violet comes home from a doctor's appointment with bad news about her pregnancy, she and her wife disagree about how to proceed.
dir. Colleen Labella
**SELECTED Culver City Film Festival**
in development
Untitled Donner Party
Historical Thriller, Feature Film
When a group of pioneers chooses a perilous uncharted shortcut to California, Tamsen Donner fights to keep her family alive against the forces of nature and the even more powerful forces of American greed.
Brief Synopsis: The shocking and infamous tale of the Donner Party has captivated the American imagination for generations, for who better personifies American ideals than the intrepid pioneer in search of a better life? When Tamsen Donner and her family set out for California in 1846, they leave behind a comfortable life and a prosperous future for the allure of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny. But a deadly choice to take a shortcut set out for them by a bombastic charlatan exposes the depravity of American greed and an unending hunger for more. The party descends into darkness as they chart a dangerous course through a hostile landscape, are mired in sludge crossing the Great Salt Desert, and turn against each other as they weaken and starve. Tamsen soldiers on, helpless to change their course...until an early snowfall traps them in the mountains and Tamsen finds the inner strength to wage one last battle for survival.
#DOGMOM
Single-cam comedy, half-hour
When a broke millennial podcaster embarks on a journey toward parenthood, she battles relationship issues, crippling student loan debt, and infertility forcing her to decide whether to chase the grown-up life of her childhood dreams or be content with being the world’s best #dogmom.
SUBSTACK posts
I write about creativity and getting shit done from my perspective as an experienced life and career coach for creatives!
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WHAT PEOPLE say
"Everyone is so lucky to get to watch this film. If you don't have a period and never will have one in your life, it makes you feel like you want one. I cried joy tears watching it because it's such a beautiful, funny, and exceptionally genius concept and the way that they executed it is amazing. It's a wondrous extravaganza of a commercially viable idea and the female gaze. I knew something as wonderful as this film would come along, but I didn't think it would happen until I was, like, 85."
-Marianna Palka
Director, Writer, Actor
"Rye’s humor and relatability make her a standout, from her dancing in a tampon costume to her culminating monologue where she releases her anger onto the production team. This film, thanks to the ending, will make you laugh while forcing you to think differently the next time you see something on television. "
-The Emory Wheel
other work as a filmmaker
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fun facts!
Erin is a paid speaker and a life and career coach for creatives who loves helping other folks find fullfillment and get their shit done!
Erin once spent 6 weeks in an RV exploring the American West with only Shae the Dog to keep her company. Ask her about Utah's National Parks and Monuments!
Erin keeps up her classical music chops by singing with Vox Femina, a treble chorus on a mission to use music to uplift marginalized voices!
Erin has been singing vibey indie tunes with The Silver Lake Chorus for over a decade.
We're just your friendly Grammy-nominated neighborhood chorus!
Erin has a BFA in Musical Theater from NYU and has put it to use on stages and screens across the country. Often as a witch.
Usually in a wig.
