The "hilariously sociopathic" (New York Times) Erin Markey is a performer and writer/creator of live performance works, often darkly comedic and driven by original music compositions. Erin is currently developing a new musical performance project, First Lady. They have written songs for Tender Claws VR games The Under Presents and Virtual Virtual Reality 2. On television, Erin appeared on High Maintenance (HBO), Girls5Eva (Netflix), Fantasmas (HBO) and At Home with Amy Sedaris (TruTV). Onstage, Markey recently performed in Galas (Little Island),  Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons) and Internal Audit (The Kitchen). They are a company member of Obie Award winning Half Straddle.

After premiering in NYC, their original shows toured nationally and internationally to ART (Cambridge, MA), The Yard Theater (London, UK), Philly Live Arts/FRINGE (Philadelphia, PA), Luminato Festival (Toronto, ON), PICA’s TBA Festival (Portland, OR), Fierce Festival (Birmingham, UK), Fusebox Festival (Austin, TX), San Francisco Film Society and more. Markey’s most recent music/theater works include Singlet (Bushwick Starr), Boner Killer (UTR at the Public Theater), A Ride On The Irish Cream (American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center), and the in-progress Little Surfer (Public Theater New York Voices). Their short play, Siobhan’s Wheel World was published in The Brooklyn Rail. They received the 2025 Vivace Musical Theater Award and FCA Creative Research Grant. They are currently working on a novel, an excerpt of which was published in the anthology Clowns (DOPAMINE/ Semiotext(e)).

"Markey has developed a cult following as an alt-cabaret star with swaggering confidence and off-kilter sense of humor. In a fevered glance, she moves between seduction and terror, and with the rise of an owlish eyelid, they push gentle vulnerability into cartoonish ridiculousness. " 

-New York Times

Management:

Alice Stites (Brillstein Entertainment Partners)

AStites@bep-ny.com

Literary:

Emma Feiwel (WME)

EFeiwel@WMEAgency.com
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