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, LA Weekly's GO!, and won the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Book/ Lyrics/ Music for an Original Musical. 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. Erin's upcoming projects include The Promised Life, a musical about four women working in a Jewish Day School in the suburbs of Los Angeles, and a new work about child trafficking in Thailand.
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 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 is currently finishing her master’s degree in International Public Diplomacy at The University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication/ School of International Relations. Erin recently presented papers at the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Religion and Culture’s 3rd annual conference in Bali, Indonesia, and at the International Conference on Shan Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Her paper National Identity, the Shan and Child Trafficking in Northern Thailand: the Case of D.E.P.D.C. is slated for publication by Chulalongkorn University.