Eric attended and graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a degree in Computer Animation. He began his career performing, writing and directing shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York City. Soon after he was hired to write for "The Andy Milonakis Show" (2005), and moved to Los Angeles where he would go on to work for "Crank Yankers" (2007) and "Human Giant" (2007).
In 2008, Eric was hired as the senior writer of the comedy website "Funny or Die." After writing and directing several popular online shorts, Eric directed the pilot for MTV's "Death Valley" (2011) as well as the trailer for Adult Swim's "NTSF:SD:SUV::" (2011) that preceded it's first season run (as well as directing six of its initial episodes).
In 2011, Eric left Funny or Die to pursue directing full time, and has since worked on shows like "Eagleheart" (2011), "Blue Mountain State" (2011), "The Office" (2011), " and "Workaholics" (2012).
