Rhys Thomas

Rhys Thomas (born 18 September 1979) is a Welsh director and producer known for his work on *Saturday Night Live* for NBC and the series *Documentary Now!* for IFC.

Thomas became the *Saturday Night Live* Film Unit producer in 2005 and began directing shorts, music videos, and commercial parodies for the show in 2010. He also directed and produced the *SNL* opening credit sequence from 2012 to 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 *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 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 reunited with Bill Hader 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*.