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About Erin Kamler
- Erin Kamler (born 1975) is an American writer, composer, and academic researcher who works at the intersection of feminist social justice and the arts. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Erin earned her Ph.D.
- from USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where her research focused on the trafficking and migration of women in Thailand and Burma, and using the arts as a tool for political communication and human rights witnessing.
- Conversationally fluent in the Thai language, she has conducted fieldwork with anti-trafficking NGOs, members of Thai and U.S.
- governments, female migrant laborers and trafficking survivors and has led projects in collaboration with community-based women’s organizations, and the U.S.
- State Department.
- Erin holds a Masters in Public Diplomacy from USC’s School of International Relations, a Masters in Communication Arts from USC’s Annenberg School and a Bachelors in music composition from Sarah Lawrence College.
- Currently, she works as an affiliated researcher at Chiang Mai University, and an international development consultant focusing on gender and conflict in Myanmar. Projects as a composer and playwright include Land of Smiles, Divorce! The Musical, and Runway 69.
- Her work has been staged at New Dramatists, Berkeley Rep, The Public Theater, Playwright’s Horizons, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and she is a three-time winner of Stephen Sondheim’s Young Playwright’s Festival and University of Michigan’s Hopwood Award.
- She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Erin is married to the American theatrical producer Rick Culbertson.
- They divide their time between Thailand, Myanmar and the US.
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