Eryn Lemmert

Eryn is a director, actor, dancer, and photographer who grew up in the heart of Northeastern Wisconsin. Surrounded by a city full of art, she has always gravitated towards using theatre as a means of advocacy and understanding. Eryn is now continuing her artistic journey as she pursues a B.F.A. in Directing at UNCSA, where she hopes to express different ways people experience life and examine what it means to be human.

She is passionate about utilizing her art to advocate for her beliefs. Eryn uses her work to bring people together, cultivate conversation, and inspire change by acknowledging the vast complexity of human nature. Art is Eryn’s world, and she is forever thrilled to share her creations and dig into sincere and necessary stories.

Thus far, at UNCSA, she has had the opportunity to explore a wide selection of works, including 10-minute selections from "Blackbird" by David Harrower and "The Children’s Hour" by Lillian Hellman, as well as longer pieces such as "Wolf Play" by Hansol Jung and "The Curious Incident of the Dog…" by Simon Stephens. This semester, she will be directing an excerpt from Edna O'Brien's "Iphigenia," an adaptation of Euripides’ play that questions the extent of what we will sacrifice for our cause and illuminates the inescapable violence sewn into every aspect of war.

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