Erin Kamler

Who is Erin Kamler?

Erin Kamler is an American writer, dramatist and composer with a specific interest in writing musicals based on memoir. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kamler began performing in musicals at age nine, started her own production company at age ten and went on to write, compose and produce over fifteen musicals by age eighteen.

A three-time winner of Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwright's Festival, Kamler's plays have been staged at the Joseph Papp Public Theater and Playwrights 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, and her musical Divorce! The Musical made its world premiere at Los Angeles' Hudson Theater in 2009.

Erin is married to the American theater producer Richard Culbertson.