Erika is a performance maker, choreographer and director interested in expanding ideas around how performance is created and shared. Shuch co-founded For You, a performance collective that brings diverse strangers together and makes performances as gifts. For You has been commissioned to create work by Court Theatre, The Momentary, Oregon Shakespeare, Guthrie, and Theater Mu with support from Creative Capital, NEFA, and Berkeley Rep’s Groundfloor. Erika has worked as a choreographer for theaters including The Arena, OSF, Theater for a New Audience, Pittsburg Public, Portland Center Stage, American Conservatory Theater, and The Kennedy Center. Directing credits include Iron Shoes with Kitka, and Lily’s Revenge, Love Act by Taylor Mac at the Magic Theatre. Erika is a Bay Area Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts.
bio as of 1/2022