press quotes

Erin Kilmurray’s fishnet-clad, fem- and queer-fueled cabaret-variety show, now in its tenth season, is a raucous, raunchy, righteous balm for the soul wearied — It is, in every way, worth it and might just be, as they say, the show we need, right now”.

Newcity Magazine

Kilmurray’s dancers shatter the expectations of concert dance performance while pushing themselves to the extremes of their technical abilities — makes, crosses, destroys, and recreates borders, to tear down.

 Picture This Post

“These bodies are strong, capable, queer, and kinky… Who holds power? And who is seen? — Search Party is performance that makes me feel alive. If these are the femmes of the future, then I am on board”

Performance Response Journal

“Backed by a nine-piece live band, Kilmurray’s production highlights women, trans, non-binary, and lgbtqia individuals and allies with premiere performance acts— The collective “Hive” essentially flips audience member’s minds upside down, but in a way where they inevitably feel better and more empowered than when they initially enter the theater.”

Third Coast Review

REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, MEDIA

Chicago Reader ——  Huge, very loud, and with a lot of glitter 2022

Newcity Magazine —— Joy Bomb Goes Nuclear: The Fly Honeys Take Over Thalia Hall 2022

Lupmen Radio —— Kilmurray interviewed by Means of Production 2022

Chicago Reader—— Erin Kilmurray finds a new physical vocabulary… 2022

Chicago Tribune —— ' Fly Honey ' to welcome    2022

Spotify —— The Process Podcast with Alyssa Gregory: Episode Three ft. Erin Kilmurray 2021

Newcity Magazine —— 50 People Who Really Perform For Chicago 2020

Rescripted ——Celebrating 2019 Chicago Dance : Community Sourced List 2020

Chicago Tribune —— Pivot Arts Festival Preview - Interview 2019

Chicago Reader —— The Fly Honey Show hits double digits 2019

Chicago Magazine —— The Fly Honey Show at 10 - Photo Essay 2019

Chicago Magazine ——The Fly Honey Show Turns Up the Heat. 2017

Stance On Dance ——Contemporary Dance : High Arts to Fringe  - Interview 2017

Chicago Magazine ——Four Artist Heating Up 2015


MOVEMENT DESIGN - theater

Erin Kilmurray’s movement and intimacy design places trust in the viewers, staging fight scenes that transcend traditional representational choices around depictions of violence. In many cases, the lyrical and implied movement choices were far more intimate and devastating than many standard staged-combat scenes I have witnessed in similar works”. - Chicago Reader, The Tragedy of Othello; Court Theater

” Perhaps the most contemporary choice—and the most primitive—is the replacement of choral odes with movement (designed by Erin Kilmurray ), which transforms unison speeches into the pounding of a chest that beats as one, a body that senses together.” - Newcity Stage ; Oedipus Rex; Court Theatre

“ Newell’s highly physical production is a barrage of dream-like images, many of them created by a chorus that doubles as a dance ensemble for movement director Erin Kilmurray. ” -Chicago Sun - Times; Oedipus Rex; Court Theatre

”…features an abundance of approaches and narrative modes, many of which make great moments — brought to life through abstract movement developed by the choreographer Erin Kilmurray” - The New York Times ; The Adventures of Augie March, Court Theatre



”… it should suffice to note some of the show’s most vivid scenes which Newell has devised in collaboration with choreographer Erin Kilmurray—- the show’s powerfully expressive movement, which becomes a richly emotional language all its own. -WTTW Chicago News ; The Adventures of Augie March, Court Theatre



“ using often little more than some chairs, some tables, a few white curtains and the bodies of those ensemble members, Newell and movement consultant Erin Kilmurray create a roiling sea of action, part modern dance, part devised theater, part clown show” - .Chicago Sun - Times ; The Adventures of Augie March, Court Theatre

“The opening scene (choreographed by Erin Kilmurray ) finds the three Weyard Sisters moving in tight, unnerving synchronicity to jagged synths — The whole thing is vividly nightmarish and infectious — Plot is folded into movement with an ease that belies exhausting hours of fight calls. -Newcity Stages ; Macbeth, Chicago Shakespeare Theater


”… [director, Marti] Lyons and Choreographer Erin Kilmurray collaborate to make this sequence a truly theatrical event” -Picture This Post ; Macbeth, Chicago Shakespeare Theater