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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KNOWN FOR
Saturday Night Live
2010
Hawkeye
2021
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2018
Documentary Now!
2015
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
2026
Chad
2021
Comrade Detective
2017
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Hawkeye
2022
John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
2019
An SNL Thanksgiving
2024
An SNL Valentine
2015
Staten Island Summer
2015
FILMOGRAPHY
All
Movies
TV
Acting
2
Directing
18
Writing
1
Producing
6