Rhys Thomas

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 20122018 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 Mulaneys Emmynominated standup special The Comeback Kid for Netflix Thomas is also a cocreator and director of the Emmynominated 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 GordonLevitt He teamed with Bill Hader again in 2018 for Pringles firstever 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia