CURRENTLY CHIEF EXECUTIVE AT NORTHERN STAGE where she has also directed
OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH by Peter Flannery – and on tour in March 2008
A new adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Stephen Sharkey
SON OF MAN by Dennis Potter
RUBY MOON by Matt Cameron

HANSEL AND GRETAL for Christmas 2008

MOST RECENT FREELANCE PROJECTS INCLUDE
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST – Oxford Playhouse
THE RUCKERT LIEDER PROJECT – in conjunction with Streetwise Opera, three homeless
Centres in Nottingham, Viva Orchestra and Magdala Opera
COELACANTH - Pleasance Attic, Edinburgh Festival
The Clore Leadership Programme 2005 as one of only 27 Fellows in the first year of this
groundbreaking project. The Clore Fellows (funded by the Arts Council, the Clore Duffield
Foundation and Paul Hamlyn) have the opportunity to gain senior leadership skills, spend
time on secondment to an institution outside their own artform, and research an area of
expertise which contributes to the debate on cultural leadership and the future of the arts.
Erica’s mentor for the year was Sir Richard Eyre and she spent three months at Tate
Britain.
Saudi Arabia: Erica is also involved with a remarkable endeavour with young women in Saudi Arabia. She was invited to visit Jeddah in February 2004 and worked with a young director there to begin a storytelling performance project with ancient Bedouin stories.

GATE THEATRE (as Artistic Director)
Her final production, MARIELUISE by Kerstin Specht, was translated by Rachael McGill and was the winner of REVELATIONS, The Gate Theatre Translation Award
ELECTRA by Giraudoux
THE FLU SEASON by Will Eno
WITNESS by Cecilia Parkert (which was also revived at the Battersea Arts Centre)
ION by Euripides
LES JUSTES by Camus
BOX OF BANANAS - a devised piece about madness
TEAR FROM A GLASS EYE (Matt Cameron) for which she was nominated for an
Evening Standard Award.

OTHER FREELANCE WORK INCLUDES
BLACK COCKTAIL by Ben Moor, adapted from the novella by Jonathan Carroll, playing at the Pleasance Attic in the Edinburgh Festival
SHADOW OF A BOY by Gary Owen - Lyttelton Loft as part of the Royal National Theatre’s ‘Transformations’ project
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY at Sheffield Crucible
THE LITTLE VIOLIN at the Tricycle Theatre
BLACK AND BLUE (new opera) & KNOTS – BAC
FOOL FOR LOVE - English Touring Theatre
A SUPERCOLLIDER FOR THE FAMILY & THREE WISHES - Edinburgh
BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS - Bristol Old Vic
THE GAMBLER and OBLOMOV - Pleasance, Edinburgh and London
SILENCE AND LANDSCAPE - NT Studio
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE (own adaptation) - Bloomsbury Theatre
THREE WISHES - Pleasance, Edinburgh

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR of SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE: 1998-2000: the Playhouse was nominated in 2000 for the Peter Brook Empty Space Award which highly commended her productions of THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, THE GLASS SLIPPER & WINTER’S TALE.

She was educated at Oxford where she studied French and Philosophy, and began a PhD in Philosophy before training as a director. She trained at Bristol Old Vic, with Phillippe Gaulier in Paris and at the National Theatre Studio where she was awarded the John S Cohen Bursary. She teaches regularly at the NT studio and at the Actor’s Centre.