About Hoyt Dwyer
Hoyt Dwyer is an Atlanta-based writer, director and showrunner, working in LA and NY. He is Creative Director on TIME Studios' On This Day…1776 and the creator of Pexote Jack.
Who is Hoyt Dwyer?
Hoyt Dwyer is an Atlanta-based writer, director and showrunner, working in LA and NY. He is Creative Director on TIME Studios' On This Day…1776 and the creator of Pexote Jack. As of 2026, he sits in the series' weekly writers' room and wrote two of its episodes, including The Siren Song. A surreal writer-director who builds worlds, he trained at FAMU International in Prague and came up through Apple TV Creative and the agencies Media Arts Lab, BBH LA and Publicis NY.
Biography
As of 2026, Hoyt Dwyer is Creative Director on On This Day…1776, the TIME Studios series made with Primordial Soup, and works in its weekly writers' room. He wrote two of its released episodes: The Siren Song: A Hessian Soldier Haunted at Sea and How Ordinary Men Were Forced Into the King's War.
He created Pexote Jack, a washed-up 1930s rubber-hose jackalope adrift in 2026. The pilot, Pexote Jack: Ohio!, premiered at AI Film Fest Japan in Tokyo on November 2, 2025.
Before series work, he spent years at Apple TV Creative and in advertising at Media Arts Lab, BBH LA and Publicis NY. He trained at FAMU International in Prague. He is developing an original southern gothic slate.
Key facts (as of 2026)
- Roles
- Writer, director, showrunner
- Based
- Atlanta, GA; working in LA and NY
- Current
- Creative Director, On This Day…1776 (TIME Studios)
- Original IP
- Pexote Jack
- Training
- FAMU International, Prague
- Background
- Apple TV Creative; Media Arts Lab; BBH LA; Publicis NY
- Contact
- hoytdwyer@gmail.com
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