Erica Wachs is a lesbian playwright and television writer, who was most recently the writers’ assistant in the Apple TV+ development room, Livingston. Previously, she served as the script coordinator on S1 of The Night Agent (Netflix), and the writers’ assistant on an upcoming Mattel feature project, Black Rabbit (Netflix), American Horror Story (FX), MAID (Netflix) and Pieces of Her (Netflix). As an undergraduate at Yale, she was an English major and playwriting concentrator, where she was the recipient of the Jonathan Edwards Creative Writing Award, and her short play Waking was added to the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. More recently, Erica was selected as a a member of IAMA’s 2025-2026 Emerging Playwrights Lab, and as a 2024/2025 PlayLA/Stageraw prize-winning playwright and cohort member. Her play Anatevka was a Eugene O’Neill Semifinalist and Austin Film Festival Second Rounder (2019), her short play Merge was selected and produced as part of the Rainy Day Artistic Collective’s first annual Queer Voices Festival (2021), her pilot Finishing School was an Austin Film Festival Second Rounder (2023), and she was a New Roots Residency Finalist and a Workshop Theater Intensive Finalist (2024). She lives in West Hollywood with her wife.