Erin Murray Quinlan

Biography

Erin Murray Quinlan
is an award-winning Writer, composer, dramaturg and director with credits
in theatre, film, video games and more.

Quinlan's five-star award-nominated show, Brain Hemingway, had its premiere at Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2022, and from there had two London runs in '23 and '24 before landing Off-Broadway at the Players Theatre. Her directorial debut, Beowulf and Grendel, won the Best of Free Fringe at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024.
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God Save Queen Pam had its Off-Broadway debut in the summer of 2018, and critics raved about the tight script, witty lyrics, and catchy music. "How Can I Tell You", her contribution to the album 'The MS Songbook' (lyrics co-written by Rory Sherman) was chosen again and again by reviewers as the favorite of the song cycle, called 'the cream of a very talented crop'.
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EMQ is currently completing a masters in Dramaturgy at the University of London. She studied composition and creative writing at Berklee College of Music, playwriting at the University of Oxford, and composition with professors from Juilliard at the EAMA Nadia Boulanger Institute at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. She is also an alumna composer/lyricist of the Tony Award-winning BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Advanced Workshop in NYC, and a protege of accomplished UK-based musical theater writer and director Paul Boyd.

She is included in Scott Pfitzinger's Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students. She is on the selection committee at NYC's the Players Theatre Off-Broadway, and is a very proud member of the Dramatist Guild. As a reviewer of theatre, she writes for FringeReview. Erin is passionate about bringing music lessons to underserved communities and has certifications in Makaton and music/sound therapy. She is an amateur beekeeper and American Civil War buff, and one of a handful of people to have ever solved 'Cain's Jawbone.'