Erin Shields is a Canadian stage actress and playwright.
[3] The play premiered at the Summerworks Festival in 2008 before being mounted by Tarragon Theatre in 2010.
[1] Her other plays include Barrel Crank,[4] Montparnasse (cowritten with Maev Beaty),[5] The Unfortunate Misadventures of Masha Galinski,[6] The Epic of Gilgamesh (up to the part when Enkidu dies) and Soliciting Temptation,[7] and Beautiful Man.
[8] Her play Paradise Lost, a theatrical adaptation of John Milton's Paradise Lost, was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.
[9] In 2021, she wrote "Here We Are," a 90-minute audio poem piece to mark the first anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.