THEATRE/FILM
Underworld
In 2020 Erin completed her first full length musical, Underworld. She wrote the book and composed all of the music, which is scored for piano, voice, and a small chamber ensemble. You can listen to the full score HERE! Below is a brief synapsis:
The inhabitants of Mount Olympus are going about their daily lives: Hades is lonely, Persephone is
filled with teen angst, Demeter is a frustrated single mother, Zeus incessantly messes with mortals
because he is bored out of his mind, and Echo just can’t shut up. Suddenly, everyone’s worlds, gods
and mortals alike, are turned upside down when Zeus and Hades conspire to bring Persephone to the
Underworld. In an upwelling of maternal grief, Demeter forces everyone to confront their deepest
fears, confess their most passionate feelings, and in some cases, face their own mortality.
Ferndale: A Horror Comedy in Two Acts
William Ainsworth, a teenager living in a small town in the Midwest, finds that his life is horror story. Actually, it is more like several horror stories. This horror/comedy interweaves five public domain tales of terror as it tells about the lives of the inhabitants of this quaint town. If you enjoy witches who curse livestock, scarecrows who consume school bullies, deceased people who haunt the living looking for their missing internal organs, and a girlfriend whose head is loosely tied on by a mysterious green ribbon, this is the play for you.
Rumpelstiltskin in Twenty
Rumpelstiltskin is a modern, comic twist on the class goblin fairy tale....and it is exactly twenty minutes long. Listen to the soundtrack HERE!
Scoring for Film Shorts
Erin has composed underscores for several film shorts. Video links are below:
FICTION
Erin's Debut novel, Little Reds, was completed in 2022. At this time it is unpublished.
Irene Woods, a recent college graduate, has been stuck in the same Pacific Northwest town
her entire life, afraid of what will happen if she leaves her emotionally fragile mother. She
finally decides to leave her hometown when she is offered an internship at Verbergen and
Wolfe, an advertising and public relations firm in Chicago. With her newfound freedom, she
begins to discover who she is through her relationship with Willow, her struggling actress
roommate, and her boss, the elusive Jonathan Wolfe. Charming, cultured, and deeply intuitiveJonathan seems to have created a life most men would envy, but as he grows closer to his
young intern, a long kept secret starts to unravel, forcing Jonathan to go on his own journey of
self discovery.
MUSIC
As a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Erin has released several solo albums as well as albums with multiple bands.
Solo album - Land of Milk and Honey (writer and producer) 2003
Erin Jordan and the Whiskey Romance - Gateway to Temptation (writer and producer), 2008
Bakelite 78 - What the Moon has Done (co-writer), 2011
Bakelite 78 - Five Hits from Heck (guest vocalist), 2015
Solo album - Low Fidelity Love Songs (writer and producer), 2016
EDUCATOR
Erin has taught K-8 Music and Drama in public schools the Chicago area, Seattle, and in Southwest Michigan, where she currently resides. She also worked as a children's theatre director with Seattle's Performers from 2015-2017.
