2019 Innovators- Erin Gilley
For over a hundred years, San Francisco has been known as a center of artistic creativity and innovation. More recently, the City has also become known as the center for technological innovation and progress. 3Girls Theatre’s Innovators Series is an exciting program that is creating opportunities to connect the innovators of the art communities with the innovators of the tech communities.
Erin Gilley is a director and video projection designer who has worked all over the Bay Area and UK. Notable directing credits include San Francisco’s immersive theatre production The Speakeasy (Boxcar Theatre), the international digital theatre production Longitude (LIFT/elastic future), and The Lily’s Revenge (Magic Theatre). Erin also recently designed the video projections for Women Laughing Alone with Salad at Shotgun Players. Erin studied theatre as an undergraduate at Princeton University and received her MFA in theatre directing from Birkbeck, University of London. She is originally from the mountains of northwest Georgia. www.eringilley.com.
Erin’s Salome 16×9 is created live by one actress, one DJ, one VJ, and an audience exploring freedom and captivity, survival and extinction, and anonymity and community in a digital world. Leveraging the power of the internet to grant anonymity, the actress uncovers the audience’s secrets while confessing her own. Storytelling, video projection, electronic music, and audience interaction collage together in a live-mixed theatrical event that is uniquely created for each performance. Including text from Charles Mee’s Salome, and featuring Denmo Ibrahim in the starring role, sound by Marc Blinder, and video by director Erin Gilley.
