Erin Brandenburg

Erin Brandenburg

(she/her)

Erin Brandenburg is a theatre director and writer originally from Essex County, Ontario. Based in Toronto, she works with the multidisciplinary collective Kitchenband. Erin is a graduate of the directing program at the Soulpepper Academy, winner of the Enbridge Emerging Playwright’s Award, a finalist for the Gina Wilkinson prize, participant of the Stratford Playwright’s Retreat, and The Banff Playwright’s Lab and the upcoming Longbourough Lake Writer's Retreat with Crow's Theatre and Mongrel Media. She was an artist in residence at the Toronto Public Library through Artists in the Library, where she created the Albion VR Project in collaboration with Toasterlab. Selected directing credits include the upcoming musical about disability and inclusion - The Flin Flon Cowboy (The Flin Flon Collective), Forgiven/Forgotten (Audio Drama - TOTB), HOME DAY (Necessary Angel/Resilience Project), UnMute (Zoom Play/Podcast - TOTB), Remembering the Winnipeg General (Zeitpunktheatre), Everything I Couldn’t Tell You (Riser/Spiderbones), Blood Wedding (Soulpepper), This Will Lead to Dancing (TOTB), Petrichor (Summerworks),

Her plays include BOBLO (Theatre Centre/Kitchenband - Dora Nominated for 5 awards, winner of 2), The Great Lakes Project (Kitchenband), Petrichor (Summerworks), Drive (Kitchenband/Edge of the Woods Theatre), Detroit Time Machine (Rhubarb), Pelee (SummerWorks) and Reesor (Best of the Fringe, Next Stage - co-written with Lauren Taylor).