Erin’s musical projects include LAND OF SMILES, which received critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland for its critique of the U.S.-driven crusade to combat sex trafficking in Thailand; DIVORCE! THE MUSICAL, which made its 2009 world premiere at the Hudson Theater in Los Angeles where it garnered the LA Times’ Critic’s Choice, Backstage West’s Critic’s Pick, won the 2009 Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Book, Music and Lyrics for an Original Musical, the 2010 Backstage Garland Award for Best Playwriting and Best Musical Score and was nominated for the 2009 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Original Score; and RUNWAY SIXTY-NINE, about a strip club on the eve of the clean-up that transformed Times Square which won New Dramatists’ 2008 Frederick Loewe Award. A member of the Dramatist’s Guild, her work has been staged at New Dramatists, Berkeley Rep, The Public Theater, and Playwright’s Horizons. As a singer-songwriter, Erin has performed internationally with her 2002 and 2005 MANTRA GIRL albums, and her recordings can be heard on numerous albums and films.

Erin holds a Ph.D. in Communication, an MA in Communication and an MA in International Public Diplomacy from USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, and a BA in Music Composition from Sarah Lawrence College. Erin divides her time between Southeast Asia and the United States, where she works as Director of Partner Programs, Asia at Minerva Project and Affiliated Researcher at Chiang Mai University. Current projects include THE MONSOON TRILOGY, a series of musicals about human rights issues in Southeast Asia, and REFUGE, an album bringing together mantras from the Buddhist and Jewish traditions with songs about a world in grief.

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