---
name: "Erica Dunton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/erica-dunton"
fi1m_id: "erica-dunton"
imdb_id: "nm1827614"
tmdb_id: 212406
wikidata_id: "Q63828494"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "director"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-23T11:04:54.217149+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Erica Dunton

## Identity

Erica Dunton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/erica-dunton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** erica-dunton
- **IMDb ID:** nm1827614
- **TMDB ID:** 212406
- **Wikidata ID:** Q63828494
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Dunton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63828494, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1827614/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/212406

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 2003–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Cherie Nowlan](https://film.one/person/cherie-nowlan.md), [Silver Tree](https://film.one/person/silver-tree.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as director, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 66 (1), 2010s 72 (1), 2020s 71 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 69 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Mystery 2, Sport 2, Action & Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erica_Dunton, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63828494, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1827614/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/212406

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Outer Banks*](https://film.one/tv/outer-banks.md) (72), [*You*](https://film.one/tv/you.md) (72)
- **Apple TV:** [*Ted Lasso*](https://film.one/tv/ted-lasso.md) (78)
- **Disney+:** [*One Tree Hill*](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md) (66)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Off Campus*](https://film.one/tv/off-campus.md) (62)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Erica Dunton is a British director and screenwriter. She earned a law degree from Durham University and later studied at the National Film and Television School.

Dunton has directed episodes of numerous television series, including four episodes of *Ted Lasso* (2021–2023), three of *The Summer I Turned Pretty* (2022), and episodes of *Outer Banks*, *You*, *Bad Monkey*, *Vampire Academy*, *Good Trouble*, *The Bold Type* and *One Tree Hill*. She has also written and directed several independent feature films, among them *To.get.her* (2011), which won the Audience Award at Sundance, *The 27 Club* (2008) and *Abigail Falls* (2018).

She has received two Directors Guild of America Award nominations for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series for her work on *Ted Lasso*. Her father, Joe Dunton, was a cinematographer who received the BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award in 2010.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ericadunton.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Off Campus* (2026), Fi1m 62, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/off-campus.md)
- *Outer Banks* (2020), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/outer-banks.md)
- *Ted Lasso* (2020), Fi1m 78, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/ted-lasso.md)
- *You* (2018), Fi1m 72, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md)
- *One Tree Hill* (2003), Fi1m 66, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Off Campus* (2026), series, Director — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/off-campus.md)
- *The Waterfront* (2025), series, Director
- *We Were Liars* (2025), series, Director
- *Brilliant Minds* (2024), series, Director
- *Bad Monkey* (2024), series, Director
- *The Girls on the Bus* (2024), series, Director
- *Vampire Academy* (2022), series, Director
- *The Summer I Turned Pretty* (2022), series, Director
- *Julia* (2022), series, Director
- *The Republic of Sarah* (2021), series, Director
- *Holly & Ivy* (2020), Director
- *Ted Lasso* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/ted-lasso.md)
- *Outer Banks* (2020), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/outer-banks.md)
- *The Baker and the Beauty* (2020), series, Director
- *Dolly Parton's Heartstrings* (2019), series, Director
- *Good Trouble* (2019), series, Director
- *You* (2018), series, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/you.md)
- *Abigail Falls* (2018), Director, Writer
- *The Bold Type* (2017), series, Director
- *Black Eyed Dog* (2014), Director
- *To Get Her* (2011), Director
- *The 27 Club* (2008), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Find Love* (2006), Director, Writer
- *One Tree Hill* (2003), series, Director — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/one-tree-hill.md)
- *Pretty Ugly*, Director, Writer, Producer

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