Erin Kamler
American composer
Erin Kamler (born February 13, 1975) is an American writer, composer, and academic researcher whose cross-disciplinary work includes musical theater, recording, and feminist scholarship.
A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kamler has a PhD from USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, a master's in Public Diplomacy from the USC School of International Relations, a master's in communication arts from USC Annenberg, and a bachelor's in music composition from Sarah Lawrence College. Conversationally fluent in Thai, her doctoral research focused on the trafficking and migration of women in Thailand and Burma.
As a playwright and composer, Kamler is a winner of the Los Angeles Ovation Award, Backstage Garland Awards, a three-time winner of Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Festival Award and the University of Michigan Hopwood Award. Her musicals have been staged at New Dramatists, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Career
Playwright and Composer
Kamler began writing and composing musicals as a child in Ann Arbor, Michigan, producing over fifteen full-length works by age eighteen. Her early plays were staged at The Public Theater and Playwrights Horizons in New York. She won Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwright's Festival three times (1991, 1992, 1994) and received the University of Michigan Hopwood Award for playwriting in 1994.
Her musical Runway 69 — a work about a strip club on the eve of the Times Square clean-up, co-written with Carson Kreitzer — was developed at New Dramatists, where it won the 2008 Frederick Loewe Award.
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