Erin Renée Roberts
Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Massage Therapist
Erin Renée Roberts in a multidisciplinary performance artist. Born and raised in Saint Louis, MO, she obtained her BFA in Theater-Acting from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA in 2013. There she premiered as a writer and solo artist in her one-woman thesis show LoveLessonsLearned, which she's since toured to the Seattle Fringe Festival (2013), the St. Louis Fringe (2014), and the WOW Café Theatre in New York (2016). She was most recently involved in the performance and generation of FloSTL’s Host Table, and as an actor in New Jewish Theatre’s Raging Skillet, Mind Speak’s Superheroes of Blackness, YoungLiars’ Titus Androgynous, ERA’s Twelfth Period, Not Another Twelfth Night and Theatre Nuevo’s Acronyms: One-Act Play Festival. Erin self-produced Rajiv Joseph’s two person non-linear romance Gruesome Playground Injuries under her performance art moniker Creative Inhabitor. As a writer her movement piece (De)flowered was featured in association with SATE’s Emerging Artist Showcase in 2017. Erin has been performing under her burlesque persona Terra Josephine in Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Saint Louis since 2013 and was named the 1st Saint Louis Zulu Priestess of Mardi Gras 2019.
In addition to her work as a performance artist, she became a licensed massage therapist in April 2016. As a massage therapist, she strives to cultivate a mental health conscious atmosphere for artists and athletes to practice stress reduction and relaxation practices that will help them maintain strong, productive and long-standing careers.
Erin Renée intends to create an internationally known and practiced movement-based art form that incorporates physical theater and dance techniques with massage therapy, a method that will create lines of communication and expression on a global scale. She finds that seeing art being made and being the art that is made has enabled her to create and connect with her purpose and intentions as an artist, a massage therapist, and as a being in the world.