ERIN KAMLER'S Divorce! The Musical, for which she wrote the book, music and lyrics, 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, the 2010 Backstage Garland Award for Best Musical Score, the LA Weekly Awards for Best Director and Musical Director, and was nominated for the 2010 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Original Score. A three-time winner of Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwright's Festival (1991, 1992, 1994), Erin's plays have been staged at The Public Theater and Playwright's Horizons, and she won the 1994 University of Michigan Hopwood Award for playwriting. Her musical Runway 69 is currently in development at New Dramatists where it won the 2008 Frederick Loewe Award for Best Musical. Erin is currently at work on a new musical.
As a recording artist, Erin has performed to audiences in India, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Turkey and throughout the United States with her albums “Mantra Girl: Truth" (2002) "Mantra Girl: Trinity" (2005), and Kundalini Yoga Instructional DVD’s (2003). As a vocal instructor, she has taught in public and private school settings in New York and Los Angeles.
At age sixteen, Erin received an A.F.S. scholarship to study abroad in Bangkok, Thailand. This experience fostered her interest in the Thai language, culture and politics. Erin has since gone on to teach songwriting at the Development Education Programme for Daughters and Communities, an NGO dedicated to preventing child trafficking in Thailand's north, and she presents lectures about Thailand at Universities around the world. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Erin recently completed a master’s degree in International Public Diplomacy at The University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication/ School of International Relations. She is currently pursuing doctoral work at USC with a focus on cultural diplomacy and political communication.