Erin Courtney is an American playwright and visual artist from Hermosa Beach, California.
In 2020, she became an assistant professor at Northwestern University, in its Writing for Screen and Stage program.
[7] Courtney was a member of 13P, the downtown New York playwriting-producing collective that formed in 2003 and dissolved in 2012.
[8] Her 13P production, A Map of Virtue, won a 2012 Special Citation Obie Award.
In 2018, she helped develop Clubbed Thumb's Biennial Commission prompt, which urged writers to "alternative play shapes" in their storytelling.