Erin Brubacher
Erin Brubacher is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, thinker and maker. Her work has been presented in contexts such as The Edinburgh International Festival (Scotland), Theater der Welt (Germany), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), and The National Arts Centre (Ottawa). Known for directing collaboratively created performance works, award-winning theatre projects include Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools, the original creation/ production of Concord Floral, and Love You Wrong Time. She is the author of three books in three genres: The poetry collection In the small hours, the performance text/ 700km-walk memoir 7th Cousins: An Automythography (co-authored with Christine Brubaker), and most recently the novel, These Songs I Know By Heart. Erin holds a practice based MA International Performance Research, jointly from the University of Warwick and University of Amsterdam, where her research was rooted in making invitations to strangers. Her doctoral research at TMU seeks to be in service of how humans can be together, here and now. She is driven by the desire to make meeting places: for her, art is a framework that serves to gather people who might not otherwise be in a room together.