Rhys Thomas
Rhys Thomas
Biography
Rhys Thomas (born 18 September 1979) is a Welsh director and producer best known for his work on Saturday Night Live for NBC and the series Documentary Now! for IFC. Rhys Thomas became the Saturday Night Live Film Unit producer in 2005 and in 2010 began directing shorts, music videos, and commercial parodies for the show. He also directed and produced the SNL opening credit sequence in 2012–2018 and the opening credits for the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, which he also produced and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special in 2015. In 2015 he made his feature film debut with the film Staten Island Summer written by Colin Jost. That year he also directed John Mulaney’s Emmy-nominated stand-up special The Comeback Kid for Netflix. Thomas is also a co-creator and director of the Emmy-nominated IFC series Documentary Now!. In 2016, he also produced the Adele Live in New York City concert special for NBC, for which he earned his fourth Primetime Emmy nomination. He also produced and directed the opening credits for the talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers. In 2017, he produced and directed all six episodes of the Amazon Prime show Comrade Detective starring Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He teamed with Bill Hader again in 2018 for Pringles' first-ever Super Bowl commercial. In 2021, Thomas served as an executive producer and directed episodes 1, 2, and 6 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Hawkeye. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bert and Bertie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
20
Gender
Male
Birthday
1979-09-18 (45 years old)
Place of Birth
Not available
Acting

2022

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye as Self - Director / Executive Producer

2015

Staten Island Summer as The Devil (voice)
Crew

NaN

Robotech Director

2021

Chad Director

2021

Hawkeye Director

2021

Hawkeye Executive Producer

2019

John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch Executive Producer

2017

Comrade Detective Director

2017

Comrade Detective Executive Producer

2015

Staten Island Summer Director

2015

Documentary Now! Executive Producer

2015

Documentary Now! Director

2015

Documentary Now! Creator

1975

Saturday Night Live Producer