Kamler Productions approaches research and consulting as integral to our creative mission. Over the past sixteen years, Dr. Erin M. Kamler has worked with international development agencies, UN bodies, NGOs, universities, and civil society organizations across Southeast and East Asia to address issues of human trafficking and migration, gender and peacebuilding, and women’s economic empowerment. This body of work forms the foundation for Kamler Productions’ signature approach: Dramatization as Research (DAR).

Introduced in her book Rewriting the Victim (Oxford University Press), DAR frames the dramatic writing and creative process as a research methodology in itself—transforming qualitative and feminist inquiry into artistic works that both embody and critique their findings. Through this model, field-based consulting projects and applied research become more than reports or policy briefs–they evolve into creative interventions that generate dialogue, amplify marginalized voices, and influence advocacy.

Dr. Erin Kamler has collaborated with organizations including UN Women, the World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Human Rights Watch, Mercy Corps, and Norwegian Church Aid, as well as local civil society partners across Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Building on these initiatives, her research and consulting work has helped shape creative projects such as The Monsoon Trilogy, which documents and dramatizes the experiences, narratives, policies, and politics at the heart of gender and conflict in Southeast Asia in the years leading up to Burma’s military coup.

Kamler Productions now carries this model forward—bridging consulting, research, and the arts to create a continuum of research → arts → advocacy. Our mission is to transform lived experience and knowledge into culture-shifting storytelling and advocacy for change.