Erin Cardillo

Erin Cardillo, an American who acts, writes for television and produces, launched her performing career while a student at Greenwich High School in Connecticut and went on to study performance studies at Northwestern University, graduating in 1999 and exploring writing and adaptation there. After college she settled in New York and worked often on stage before moving to Los Angeles to pursue film and television. Viewers know her as Esme Vanderheusen on Passions and as Ms. Tutweiler on The Suite Life on Deck. In 2012 she returned to theater, playing Melody Dent, the lead in Under My Skin, at the Pasadena Playhouse. She then shifted toward writing, co-creating Significant Mother (2015 to 2016) and Life Sentence for the CW with Richard Keith, and she executive produces and writes on the Netflix series Virgin River. Isn't It Romantic, her first feature, was released in theaters in 2019.