Erin Murray Quinlan

Erin Murray Quinlan is a composer/lyricist/playwright based in NYC and London. She studied composition and creative writing at Berklee College of Music, playwriting at the University of Oxford, and more composition with the EAMA Nadia Boulanger Institute at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. She is also a composer/lyricist at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Advanced Workshop in NYC and a protégé of accomplished UK-based musical theater writer and director Paul Boyd. She is on the selection committee at NYC’s famed Off-Broadway house, The Players Theatre.
EMQ had her Off-Broadway debut in the summer of 2018 with God Save Queen Pam, and critics raved about the tight script, witty lyrics, and catchy music. “How Can I Tell You,” her contribution to the album The MS Songbook (lyrics co-written by Rory Sherman) was chosen again and again by reviewers as the favorite of the song cycle, her musical contribution being called “the cream of a very talented crop.” EMQ’s work has been performed at many venues around the US and UK, including Off-Broadway at The Players Theatre in NYC, the Duplex Theater, the Playwright in Boston, the Tabard Theater in London, and The Actors Studio in LA. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.