Erin (they/them) is a Boston-based playwright and stage manager who can’t/won’t stop writing deeply queer, stubbornly optimistic sci-fi. Erin’s plays often feature found families, unlikely connections, and a fair amount of cussing. They frequently interrogate the role of violence, especially in dire situations, and explore what it means to be a person. They appeared on ArtsBoston’s July 2020 list of 10 Boston Playwrights You Should Know.
Erin’s primary ongoing project is the Legion Cycle, a series of interconnected plays and audio dramas all set in a shared post-alien-apocalypse world. The most recent entry in the Cycle, Break, Break, was produced with the support of a LAB grant from the Boston Foundation by Legion Theatre Project and Artists’ Theater of Boston in September 2023. Previous plays in the series include Shrike, which received its world premiere production with Fresh Ink Theatre in February 2022; and Crossing Flight, the first in the cycle, which premiered with TC Squared Theatre Company in January 2018. The world of the Legion also includes the podcast/audio drama series The Legion Tapes, which Erin is the writer and co-producer for.
Outside of the Legion stories, Erin’s full-length play Pinch Point has been developed at the Valdez Theatre Conference in Alaska and with Flat Earth Theatre in Boston, including a public reading with Flat Earth in March of 2023. Erin’s short plays include By Any Other Name, a one-act that received its world premiere performance in New Repertory Theatre’s inaugural New Rep, New Voices festival in 2022. World Line, a longer one-act, received a digital reading with TC Squared Theatre Company in July 2020 and a staged reading with Blunt Objects Theatre in New Orleans in 2016. Their ten-minute play Random Access Memory received a reading with TC Squared in April 2020, and was performed as part of the 2020 Boston Theatre Marathon with Flat Earth Theatre. Their other ten minute plays, which include Don’t Look Back, Event Horizon, and Clockwork have been read and produced in Texas, West Virginia, Florida, Washington, and throughout Massachusetts.
As a stage manager and technician, Erin has worked with many Boston theatres including TC Squared, ART’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, Emerson College, Company One, Escena Latina Teatro, and more. They currently serve on the volunteer board of TC Squared.
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