Erin Lindsay aka crowlake is a writer/creator, educator and dramaturg who values interdisciplinarity, technology, collaboration, and experimental and poetic forms of performance and storytelling. She has a background in voice and performance, an MFA in Creative Writing in hybrid forms from UBC and is a PhD Candidate in Individualized/Interdisciplinary Studies at Concordia. Erin has performed at the National Arts Centre, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Wilder Space (Andrea Peña & Artists), Centre d’Art et de Musique Dramatique (The Other Theatre), and Monument National (Imago Theatre) to name a few. Her creative work (in poetry, libretto writing and playwriting) has appeared at Makerspace North, Saw Gallery, Studio Porte Bleue, Brave New Play Rites, Chamberfest, Mainline Theatre, the Rialto Theatre and more and her work, Liz, was recently selected as a part of the 2024 Banff Playwrights’ Lab. Erin was a part of the cohort for the FTA’s Conversations on Performance, Nightwood’s Creatryx and Tarragon Theatre’s Playwriting and Dramaturgy intensive. She is a former Artistic Associate and Artist in Residence with Imago Theatre and is an alumni of their Nested Circles Artist Residency Program. Erin has been working as a freelance interdisciplinary dramaturg with Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, the XR development centre, Something Magic and independently under her alias crowlake. Her work explores women’s empowerment, technology’s impact on humanity, experimental and hybridized forms, and the possibility of healing and humanity in harmful and unjust systems. Erin is currently working on a triptych of interdisciplinary and new media plays mapped around the theme of care and a SSHRC and CCA funded hybrid forms print/new media novel interrogating the impact of AI technologies on Canadian healthcare. Erin believes in democratizing access to the arts and is a part of community-driven storytelling initiatives with the Quebec Writers’ Federation. 
She has facilitated creative writing/writing workshops in poetry, playwriting and hybrid forms at Concordia University, University of British Columbia, St. Stephen University, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, ARTISTA (Imago Theatre), the Quebec Writers’ Federation and more.