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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 was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and Entertainment Tonight. 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 forthcoming theatrical projects include The Jews of Calabasas, a musical about three women in California's Israeli diaspora, Khmer, a musical set in modern Cambodia and H.E.L.P., a play 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, Erin has worked in the public and private school setting and teaches singing privately to children in Los Angeles. 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 with a focus on Southeast Asia.
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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 with a focus on Southeast Asia. Erin recently presented her paper Thai Nationalism and the Crisis of the Colonized Self at the South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Religion and Culture’s 3rd annual conference in Bali, Indonesia.
In October, 2009 she will present her paper, National Identity, The Shan and Child Trafficking in Northern Thailand: The Case of D.E.P.D.C. at the International Conference on Shan Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.
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