Erica J Brennan is a theatre director and performer hailing from the Blue Mountains. She graduated from UWS (Theatre Nepean) with a B. Performance in 2008. She spends the bulk of her creative energies creating complex performance projects through extensive investigatory rehearsal processes. Major work since graduating includes In the Slaughterhouse of Love: Romeo and Juliet, a six months partnership with the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Center, ten actors and music composing duo Endemic uncovering the common ground between Shakespeare’s classic and the Sufi poetry of Jelleludin Rumi. Slaughterhouse was performed as part of the Inaugural Sydney Fringe Festival. In 2011 she 
was an Artist in residence with Shopfront Contemporary Arts and Performance under their ArtsLab program. She spent her time there smashing various metaphors of intimacy together inside a cross discipline practices donning large ox horns and studying physics to create A Feat Incomplete. She has also created works for other companies locally and internationally including 24 Hour Play Project for Griffin Theatre, So It’s That kind of Quest for Subtle Nuances Bare Boards Brave Hearts Festival, Amadeus with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre and The Beggars Opera for The University of Western Sydney.
