Erin Quill

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General Pain in the Ass

Erin Quill is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon. She is a Dual Citizen of Australia and the USA. She was an OBC member of TONY Award-winning musical, AVENUE Q. Other shows include DAVE, FLOWER DRUM SONG, KING & I, and so on. TV/Film include: Law & Order SVU, HBO's The Other Two, HBO's Pretty Little Liars Original Sin, Netflix's John Mulaney and the Sacklunch Bunch, CBS's The Blacklist, The Following, Showtime's Nurse Jackie, Damages S2, and many more. Currently, her short film, Queen Bessie's Gal, which was a piece of a larger project called ENTANGLEMENT, has been a film festival fave, including making it into the Cannes Film Festival, amongst over 30 others. She has also written the screenplay for THE MIKADO PROJECT, and the blog Fairy Princess Diaries, which gets her into constant trouble. She has a piece in the book, RISE: A history of Asian American Pop Culture from the 90's to now, and Theatre Blogging: The Emergence of a Critical Culture

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Feb. 24, 2023

"Her pain will turn to poison in your blood..." - UMMA (2022)

Our WOMEN IN HORROR MONTH Celebration continues with a look at IRIS K. SHIM's film UMMA. In UMMA, a Korean-American woman living on an isolated farm with her teenage daughter has her world turned upside down when the ashes of her abusive mother are delivered for her to bury. The longer she resists giving her Umma her final respects, the angrier Umma's spirit becomes. At first glance, UMMA is a straightforward ghost/possession story that plays with the universal fear of becoming one's parents. ...