caity quinn

BUSINESS MANAGER & DEVELOPMENT

Caity Quinn has been a member of the staff at ERC since 2008. For ERC, she has won numerous grants, including over ten years of funding from the New York State Council on the Arts and NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs. She has also won two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for The Fifth of July, about the life of Frederick Douglass, and Maestro, about the life of celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini. She works closely with Eve Wolf and Don Sanders to implement and fulfill ERC’s mission.

Caity Quinn is a creative artist as well. A director, actress, playwright, and teaching artist, she received her MFA in Acting from York University in 2013. As an actor, Caity has appeared in the Off-Broadway production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, as a principal dancer in the Disney film, “Enchanted,” and in The Owl Girl at the Portland Stage Company, among other projects.

She has collaborated with up-and-coming film director Robert Eggers (The Northman) on numerous theatre projects, including a commedia dell’arte version of Faust in New York City. Recent projects include teaching theatre K-8 at a tiny island school in Maine, directing Rabbit Hole and Six Characters in Search of an Author at Purdue, appearing at Theatre Passe Muraille in the bilingual French-English production of The Sound of Cracking Bones with Pleiades Theatre in Toronto, and directing the premiere of her play American Refugee in Vancouver, produced by Theatre Hera West. In 2019, she produced a free theatre camp for children ages 11-14 featuring an original play of hers called The Diver.

She has written and directed numerous plays including Ties of Blood: The Brontës (Paprika Festival/Theatre Passe Muraille), Little Women (Original Kids Theater Company), O, Will You Take This Rose? (The Arts Project). In May 2018, the French-language version of her play La Rivière en Toi was produced in Quebec for the second time, and her play Ties of Blood: The Brontës was produced again by Theatre Hera West.

She has been nominated twice for the Brickenden Award for Best Youth Play/Musical in London, Ontario, and has received grants from the Quebec and Ontario governments, as well as the city of London in support of her work. She has taught at Purdue University, York University, Ivy Tech Community College, and the Nancy Campbell Collegiate Institute. She has received additional training from Jack Garfein- Le Groupe Studio in Paris, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, CAP 21, and Tisch School of the Arts.