Erin Murray (she/her) is passionate about multi-generational stories with a delicious femme center. She is currently Interim Artistic Director at Island Shakespeare Festival. With 20 years of experience as a freelance director, her work has been seen across the Northern Hemisphere.​

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Credits of note include: co-creating Gender Play, or what you Will (2023 Joseph Jefferson Best New Work nominee) and directing the world premiere at Chicago’s About Face Theater; adapting and directing Cyrano de Bergerac (Island Shakespeare Festival 2022, Kilroys List 2020), directing Anne Washburn's The Internationalist (Steppenwolf Garage), and Tour Director for Ireland’s Opera Theater Company. Erin worked with Seattle artivist Ana Maria Campoy to adapt and direct Seattle Shakespeare Company’s first bilingual statewide tours Taming Of The Shrew/La Fierecilla Domada and Twelfth Night/Duodécima Noche.

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Additional new work/premiere directing credits include: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Irish premiere, Best Production at the Speigeltent), the world premiere of Last Days of the Tsars (world premiere, Witness Immersive/Playground Entertainment), a 10-track sandbox-style immersive, site-responsive play in an historic Seattle mansion; Suzanne Heathcote's I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile (Chicago premiere; Redtwist, Jeff Nomination for Best Supporting Actress), adapting and directing Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts (Redtwist Chicago) Annie Baker's John (Seattle premiere, ArtsWest), Scott Kaiser's Shakespeare's Other Women (world premiere, Island Shakespeare Festival), and Joshua Vranas & Claire Bierman’s TYA musical Theseus and the Minotaur and the Other Six (development and world premiere director, Youth Theater Northwest). In 2012, Erin executive produced the world premiere of Ariel Zetina's Pink Milk: a magical tragedy loosely based on the life of Alan Turing at New York International Fringe Festival and Chicago Fringe.

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Multimedia projects include creating e-learning training courses and videos for Blue Nile LLC; co-creating the video podcast series Teacakes & Tarot: Conversations with Queer Futurists with guests including Robert O' Hara, Bill Rauch, MJ Kaufman, and Lisa Wolpe; hosting and producing the podcast That’s WOW: Women of Washington, an interview series focused on Seattle theater artists self-producing their own theatrical productions with guests including Sara Porkalob, Desdemona Chiang, and Jess K. Smith.

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A fierce advocate for access to Theater Education for all ages and levels, Erin has directed major Education projects and workshops for Ireland’s Opera Theater Company, Seattle University, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Youth Theater Northwest and Olympia Family Theater. She has created Shakespeare curriculum for Theater Communications Group, Northwestern University, Wofford College, University of Pittsburgh.

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Erin earned her MFA in Theatre Directing from Northwestern University, and BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin; SDC Observership cohort 2020-2022; Washington State TAT Lab cohort 2023-2024. She is an Associate Member of the SDC.