Biography
Job title: Head of School of Drama
Specialisms: Director, Writer, Maker, Movement Direction, Acting, Actor Musicianship, Musical Theatre
Erin Carter is a Scottish theatre maker, director, and writer whose career spans performance, new writing, and multidisciplinary storytelling. Beginning as a child actor and training in musical theatre, she spent over a decade performing in the West End, regional theatres, and UK tours before transitioning into creating new work for stage, screen, and radio—developing a distinctive voice rooted in story-led, cross-disciplinary performance.
As a writer, her credits include VII (Teatru Malta), Bound (BBC Radio 4), River City and Teacup Travels (BBC), and short works including Prophesy (The Public Theater, New York) and Simple Truth (Theatre503). As a director, her work includes One Man, Two Guvnors (Leeds City Varieties), John Proctor is the Villain (Leeds Playhoise), Treasure Island (Stephen Joseph Theatre), Brigadoom! (Oran Mor), and Tin Forest (National Theatre of Scotland).
Alongside her directing and writing, she has collaborated as an Associate Director and Movement Director/Choreographer on large-scale reimagined classics including Brief Encounter, Stepping Out, Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol, Build a Rocket, and The 39 Steps, developing a distinctive approach to ensemble storytelling, musicality, and theatre in the round.
At Leeds Conservatoire, Erin leads the School of Drama and has been instrumental in shaping its academic provision, having written undergraduate, postgraduate and foundation courses for the school. She oversees a vibrant public performance programme of twelve productions annually; recent directing credits for the Conservatoire include Boys Will Be Boys, Scandaltown, The Coup Coup Club, John Proctor is the Villain, and One Man, Two Guvnors. Regular audiences will be familiar with her programming and producing of the School’s live performance season, which showcases the work of emerging artists across the year.
Erin’s work is driven by a belief that artists are the sum of their stories, and her teaching continues to inform her commitment to creating bold, form-challenging new work.
