Rhys Thomas

Directing

Rhys Thomas

Born
(age 47)
Birthplace
Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Credits
20 titles

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.

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Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 2

YearTitleRole
2022 Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye Film Self - Director / Executive Producer
2015 Staten Island Summer Film The Devil (voice)

Crew credits 19

YearTitleJob
TBA Robotech Film Director
TBA Anomaly Film Director, Screenplay
TBA Sleep Train Film Director
2026 The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins TV Executive Producer, Director (1 ep)
2024 An SNL Thanksgiving Film Director
2021 Hawkeye TV Director, Executive Producer (3 ep)
2021 Chad TV Director (3 ep)
2019 John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch Film Director, Executive Producer
2018 Party Monster: Scratching the Surface Film Director
2017 Comrade Detective TV Director, Executive Producer (6 ep)
2015 Queen: From Rags to Rhapsody Film Producer
2015 John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid Film Director
2015 Documentary Now! TV Executive Producer, Director, Creator (27 ep)
2015 Staten Island Summer Film Director
2015 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt TV Director (1 ep)
2015 An SNL Valentine Film Director
2013 Saturday Night Live: Thanksgiving Film Director
2002 Queen: Greatest Video Hits Film Director
1975 Saturday Night Live TV Director (15 ep)
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