Meet the Team

Olivia Haller

Olivia specializes in earnest, heartfelt stories with a surreal or supernatural angle. She served as a developing producer on the pilot of Chasers which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Her short film [subtext] which she wrote, produced, and starred in was accepted to 60 film festivals and was picked up for distribution by NITV. Her half-hour pilot And Also With You was accepted to the Stowe Narrative Lab, and received a Seed & Spark Patrons Circle grant from Mark Duplass. Her stage play Loneliness Was A Pandemic received an Off-Broadway production at Theaterlab in November 2024. 

Creator/Showrunner

Erin Brown Thomas

Erin often plays in sandboxes of comedy and suspense. Her project Chasers, an ambitious continuous 30-minute single-shot pilot, had its World Premiere at Sundance in 2025, followed by an LA Premiere at Slamdance. Her directing portfolio includes wins at the Academy Award-Qualifying Hollyshorts and Cinequest, and she’s twice competed at Cannes in the Emerging Filmmaker Showcase. Most recently, she served as an AP on 2026 Oscar-winning live action short film The Singers, and is directing the feature drama Lady Kings of Texas.

Producing Director
Producer/Writer

Tara Hotchkis

Tara is a member of the producing team of the 2026 Oscar-winning live action short film The Singers (Netflix), a two-time Sundance alum (Chasers 2025, Taga 2026), and is currently producing the dark comedy feature film Ruthie Joins a Death Cult, starring Bashir Salahuddin, Michael Strassner, and Nina Concepción. With a background spanning studio systems and the independent film world, Hotchkis brings both business strategy and creative insight to the projects she creates. Hotchkis holds an MBA from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio Business School, a BA from UC Irvine, and is a graduate of UCLA’s Professional Screenwriting Program.

Producer/CD

Lauren Bennett

Lauren has been producing television shows, films, documentaries, and live comedy in LA and NYC since 2008. Credits include FX’s Louie and Baskets, TruTV’s Impractical Jokers, Netflix/TVLand’s Younger, and just wrapped the feature comedy Ruthie Joins a Death Cult under their abolitionist production company Wayward Three.