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Erin Courtney is an American playwright and visual artist from Hermosa Beach, California.[1]

Career

Courtney graduated from Brown University in 1990 with a BA in Visual Art, the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993 with an MFA in Painting, and from Brooklyn College in 2003 with an MFA in Playwriting. [2] As an educator, Courtney would go on to teach at Brooklyn College's Playwriting MFA program, and become its Playwriting Program Coordinator. In 2020, she became an Assistant Professor in the Writing for Screen and Stage program at Northwestern University.[3]

Courtney was a member of 13P, the downtown New York playwriting-producing collective that formed in 2003 and dissolved in 2012.[4] Her 13P production, A Map of Virtue, won a 2012 Special Citation Obie Award.[5]

Courtney was a member of New Dramatists from 2012 - 2019.[6]

In 2013, Courtney was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama and Performance Art.[7]

Works

Plays

  • 2015 I Will Be Gone
  • 2012 A Map of Virtue
  • 2011 Honey Drop
  • 2013 Trade Practices
  • 2009 Black Cat Lost
  • 2002 Demon Baby

Musicals

  • 2020 The Tattooed Lady. Book by Erin Courtney and Max Vernon, Lyrics and Music by Max Vernon.

Performance pieces

  • 2014 I’m Bleeding All Over the Place: A Living History Tour at The New Museum. Created by Brooke O’Harra, written text by Brooke O’Harra and Casey Llewellyn, with Erin Courtney, Kristen Kosmas and Heidi Schreck.

References

  1. ^ "Humana Festival 'I Will Be Gone' echoes ghosts". The Courier-Journal. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  2. ^ "The Tattooed Lady: Make Your Mark". Philadelphia Theatre Company. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  3. ^ "Erin Courtney: School of Communication - Northwestern University". communication.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  4. ^ Soloski, Alexis (2012-07-12). "A Curtain Call for a Grand Experiment". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  5. ^ "12". Obie Awards. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  6. ^ "Erin Courtney | New Dramatists". newdramatists.org. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  7. ^ "Erin Courtney". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2023-05-28.