About

Erin Mei-Ling Stuart is a Bay Area actor, director, choreographer, and theater maker.

As an actor, Erin is drawn to characters with contradictions. Women who are intelligent, physical, funny, difficult, vulnerable, or a little odd. With a background in professional modern dance, she brings an embodied approach to character and is equally at home in text-driven plays, heightened work, and physically adventurous theater.

Erin has performed with American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Shotgun Players, Oakland Theater Project, San Francisco Playhouse, and Magic Theatre, among other Bay Area theaters. She is a proud member of Shotgun Players' artistic company.

As a director and choreographer, Erin brings a collaborative, movement-centered perspective to the rehearsal room. She is drawn to projects that are formally adventurous, emotionally rich, and unafraid of ambiguity.

When she's not making theater, she's probably working on websites, playing violin or guitar, pulling tarot cards, or getting distracted by birds.

Selected Roles

  • Stevie — The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?
    Shotgun Players
  • Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / Rabbi / others — Angels in America
    Oakland Theater Project
  • Leena — The Headlands
    American Conservatory Theater
  • Gigi — My Home on the Moon
    San Francisco Playhouse

Honors

  • Best Female First Time Film Maker, TigerTail Asian Film Festival (2025)
  • Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Nomination — Best Featured Performance in a Comedy, My Home on the Moon (2024)
  • Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Nomination — Best Featured Performance in a Drama, Angels in America (2024)
  • Isadora Duncan Award Nomination — Revival Category, Monkey Gone to Heaven (Redux) (2018)
  • Della Davidson Prize for innovative dance theater artists (2016)
  • Resident artist at Djerassi Resident Artist Program (2007, 2011)
  • SF Bay Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery Award (2008)