Erin is a theatre director who grew up in the mountains of Montana, where she came to value hard work, community, and the power of the natural world over manmade systems and structures. With those values in mind, she chooses projects with clear community impact, diverse creative teams with lived experiences far different from her own, and clarity about how each piece is a force of good for local audiences and beyond. 

Favorite credits include productions at Prospect Theater Company, Rip Torn at The Tank, Blue Cross of Montana (suicide prevention program), WAMPAC Big Sky, Theater in Quarantine, The Ensemble Studio Theater, and The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, as well as large scale university productions at NYU, The Juilliard School of Drama, and Northwestern University. Development work includes collaborations with The Eugene O’Neill National Music Theater Conference, LABrynth Theater Company, Ars Nova, The Lark, New Georges, Roundabout, Pipeline Theater, and the Epstein Fellowship at New York Stage and Film. She is an alumnus of the prestigious Lincoln Center Director’s Lab.

Erin has taught at New York University, and the most recent chapter in her life involved a move to Evanston, IL, where she and her husband, Alexander Gemignani, serve on the acting faculty at Northwestern University. She believes education is an incredibly powerful tool to generate positive changes in the theater community at large. Her volunteer work involves years creating theater in juvenile detention centers and women’s prisons, and she is currently a committed member of the PTA at her daughter’s elementary school, where she serves as both a math tutor and director of all theater projects and productions.

Howlround covered her unique directorial approach in a feature article by Martha Steketee.

MFA: Sarah Lawrence