Eric Thompson

Education, Outreach, and Special Projects Director at Jacob Krueger Studio
Director and Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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About Eric

I blew my knee out.

I suppose that's as good a place to start as any. It was the first play of the first game of my senior season, though it would be another twelve hours before a doctor told me I was done with athletics. Instead, I turned to drama, and made "humorous solo" (the competitive name for "stand up comedy") my specialty. To my surprise, I won my very first competition and every competition after that right up to the divisional title. I also began performing in stage productions and discovered my home for the next twenty years.

In college I majored in Media and Theater Arts and began to take writing more seriously. There was no noble intention to it. In fact, the first script I wrote I held hostage on the condition that anyone interested in making it cast me in it. It was a James Bond parody... and it got made. My focus at the time was primarily acting, and I performed in everything from The Elephant Man (as Dr. Treves) to The Dresser (as Norman). Through it all, I continued to write, bitten by the bug. My short comedy The End was a recipient of multiple Audience Choice awards and won the New York Independent International Film Festival Award for Best Short Comedy. As the principal actor in the film, I received second degree burns all over my torso from failed bullet squibs and was hit by a 1987 Jeep Grand Cherokee eighteen times, leading to my conviction that stunt persons have families too (also, simply "bleeding for your art" doesn't sound so bad when compared to certain alternatives).

My first feature-length screenplay, The Divine Number Nine, (co-authored with friend and college collaborator Patrick McNair) was a quarterfinalist in the AAA Screenwriting competition. The Triangle, detailing the true story of the events and characters surrounding the 1911 factory fire in New York City (), was a quarterfinalist in the ASA International Screenwriting Competition and a finalist in the Creative Screenwriting Competition at the Los Angeles Screenwriting Expo.

After a time spent performing in theaters throughout the western United States, I returned to screenwriting with Mauli Junior Bonner's horror western The Last Feed (currently in post-production) and recently co-wrote and co-directed my first feature with Mauli, The Watching.

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The Triangle Budget: $30M+ | Historical ⋄ Drama Based on the true story of the Triangle Factory fire of 1911, The Triangle follows the lives of several people from the Uprising of 20,000 to the beginning of the New Deal. The garment industry is booming and the most powerful owners in New York run the Triangle. When the workers strike for better conditions, it ignites one of the most fractious periods in labor history, culminating in the tragic factory fire that cost the lives of over 144 people.