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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, immersive, all body loving, queer punk dance and variety performance project The Fly Honey Show, where pleasure is king and it all favors 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). 

Named Chicagoan of the Year in Dance 2025 by Chicago Tribune, she is also 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 (2023-2019; 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, as well as theatrical productions with Court Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Writers Theater, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. 

She teaches at Northwestern University and University of Chicago, with histories at Visceral Dance Center, CONFLUX Intensive,The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, University of Minnesota, Loyola University Chicago, Beloit College, Oberlin College, among others.