Erin is an artist working professionally as a visual storyteller and educator.

     She collaborates with directors, builders, performers, students and technicians to bring experiences to audiences across Canada. She is committed to combining the powers of visual communication with the passion and emotion of live performance. 

     The projects that excite her most connect her core values of human compassion, empathetic awakening and joyful experience with the audience- the community of people she strives to serve. 

     As a young person her artistic spirit was cultivated through a rigorous and committed dance practice- she trained in the professional division with the School of Alberta Ballet and developed a true sense of dedication to craft and expression. Achieving a degree with distinction in Theatre Design from the University of Alberta honed her skills as a scenographer and enabled her to develop her connection between physical and visual storytelling. Her return to university to attain her master’s degree supports her as an educator and advanced her artistic practice with the inclusion of formal research practices.

     She is a proven specialist in the field of integrating projected media elements into live theatrical performance and this passion was born of her discovery that she could move as a designer. The application of her internal rhythm, balance and passion for performance to her visual and technical skill sets became the doorway to the niche that continues to fulfill and ignite her professional identity.

     Her theatre design work has been exhibited in the Canadian pavilion at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Space and Design (2015, 2019) and in the University of Alberta Museums Galleries at Enterprise Square (2015). She is also frequently engaged to lead workshops and teach aspects of projection design by associations and post secondary institutions (CITT, Red Deer College, University of Lethbridge, University of Alberta). She was to co-curator and project manager for Level UP: The Digital Dramaturgy of Performance & Design online symposium.

     Award winning projects include: Bears and Minosis (Environment Designer, Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts and Punctuate Theatre, Dora Mavor Moore Nominations for Lighting and Video Design), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (Set, Lighting and Costume Design, Citadel Theatre and Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Sterling Award for Lighting Design), Café Daughter (Production Design, Workshop West Playwright’s Theatre, Gold Medalist, People’s Choice Award at the 43rd Annual Festival of Monodrama and Mime in Belgrade), Witch Hunt at the Strand (Set, Lighting and Projection Design, Workshop West Playwright’s Theatre, Sterling Nomination for Projection Design), Category E (Production Design, Maggie Tree Collective, Sterling Awards for Lighting and Projected Media Design), A Bomb in the Heart (Production Designer, Downstage Theatre, Betty Mitchell Nomination), Monstrosities (Video and Lighting Designer, Maggie Tree Collective, Sterling Nomination). For more information visit her online: eringruber.com