Erin Courtney's play, A Map of Virtue, produced by 13P and directed by Ken Rus Schmoll,
was awarded an Obie and described as "a delicate gem" and "a resonant tale of loss" by the
New York Times. Ms. Courtney's other plays include Honey Drop, Black Cat Lost,
Alice the Magnet, Quiver and Twitch, and Demon Baby. Her work has been
produced and developed by Clubbed Thumb, The Flea, New York Stage and Film, Adhesive Theater Project, Soho Rep, The Vineyard, and The Public.
She has collaborated with Elizabeth Swados on the opera Kaspar Hauser and is starting work
on a new musical with Ms. Swados on the life of Isabelle Eberhardt. She has been a resident
at the MacDowell Colony, a recipient of a NYSCA grant and two MAP Fund grants from the
Rockefeller Foundation. Demon Baby is published in two anthologies: New Downtown Now,
edited by Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee and published by University of Minnesota Press, and
Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays by Clubbed Thumb edited by Maria Striar and Erin Detrick
and published by Playscripts, Inc. A Map of Virtue and Black Cat Lost are published
by 53rd State Press. She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb, a member of 13P, and a member
of New Dramatists. She teaches in the MFA playwriting program at Brooklyn College and is a
co-founder of Brooklyn Writers Space. MFA, Brooklyn College, 2003. BA, Brown University, 1990.
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