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Erin is a Chicago-based dance artist creating genre-straddling, femme-forward performance work that demands aliveness and collectivity on stage, in studio, and with audiences. They facilitate a dance and community practice that relentlessly explores the celebrations and liberations of women, queer folks, and the underdog. Her work embraces mess, play, pleasure, and lessons in how arbitrary the line between artist and audience can be.

Erin is the creator / director of legendary queer punk dance and variety performance project The Fly Honey Show, where pleasure is king and politics favor the queens. Fly Honey was established in a DIY living space in 2010 and grew to sell out iconic rock venue Thalia Hall, was featured at Lollapalooza 2022, and named a “Chicago institution” (Chicago Reader). 

She is recognized with a 2024 US Artist Fellowship Award in Dance, an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Awardee (2023), a Chicago Dancemakers Lab Artist (2020), and one of 50 People Who Really Perform for Chicago (2023; Newcity). Kilmurray was one of three "groundbreaking artists” presented at the inaugural Chicago Performs program at the Museum of Contemporary Art (2022).

Additionally, Erin has made dances for countless independent makers, parties, music videos, festivals, concerts, as well as theatrical productions with Court Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory, Writers Theater, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. 

She is currently teaching at Northwestern University and University of Chicago, and has also served as a guest artist and teacher at Loyola University Chicago, The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, Beloit College, and Oberlin College, among others.