Erin Klee
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Erin is a freelance writer, director, performer, designer, fundraiser, strategic planner, stage manager, and dramaturge; she works in theatre, dance, photography, and installation art – and has deep affinities with projects that integrate multiple artistic disciplines. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from MacMurray College in 2003, completing coursework for three majors (Theatre, Psychology, and Spanish) and two minors (English and Liberal Arts). Her cumulative GPA was 3.98 (out of 4.0); she graduated summa cum laude. For the next five years, she worked in the performing arts in the United States and Canada. She gained experience in established venues – including the California Shakespeare Theatre, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, New York's City Center, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music – but missed the inspiration of collaborating with low-budget independent artists. She developed an eccentric specialty: the management of multi-disciplinary and site-specific performance.  Commuting between Toronto and New York, she worked with innovative companies. Her favourites – the most evocative in her memory – include DNA Theatre, Perpetual Motion, Eavesdrop, Christopher Williams Dance, Crate Productions, Independent Aunties, Majlis Multidisciplinary Arts, and Bluemouth, Inc. In 2007, after the phrase “starving artist” became less figurative and more literal, she established a home base in Illinois. Under decreasing financial constraints, she found opportunities to explore artistically. In 2007, she began writing her first novella; the next year, she founded Common Ground Now – a coalition of allies promoting tolerance in rural communities. Throughout 2009, Erin will continue to explore outlets that fuse three dimensions of her identity: art, humanism, and pragmatism. She intends to focus her creative impulses on photography – and her scholarly research in fields that may lead to graduate school in 2010. She is available for occasional projects; she’s happy to tour and is amenable to relocating nearly anywhere in the world. Please contact Erin regarding employment opportunities.