“Solar Playback was amazing! 2 hours of story telling, and dramatic interpretation, it was cathartic and very meaningful to me. The event even helped to lift the cloud formed from recent events in the world. I can't wait till the next one!”—Liz

“I loved it! Well done! Solo AND on Zoom?!? Unbelievable.” —Online Solar Playback Attendee

“Thank you for saying "yes" for your solo show..."bravo" on this amazing "first" for you! We were so glad to be a part of the delight and healing you evoked within our group. Thank you for creating such a fulfilling experience for all on D’s birthday, and for affirming our friend’s love of the stage and of his daughters. Keep glowing with the ways you share joy.” —Deann

“I attend Erin's online Solar Playback events and I love them. The sense of community she builds, the beauty of her artful reconstruction of others’ stories, and the catharsis of shared, deeply felt experiences are amazing. So what happens at Solar Playback? We gather online, she introduces the theme and we get to have a conversation one on one in a break out with another attendee about that theme. This does so much to help me feel like I'm really in the experience. Then she invites members of the audience to share a story. She asks questions to gather what she needs and then weaves the story into a short performance--a poem, a song, a reenactment--that highlights the very human beauty of the experience being explored. It is improv, it is theatre, it is a joy. Erin is skillful and experienced and she brings all of that to the celebration of story.’ –Jennifer Einolf

“Playback with Erin was a profoundly moving experience for participants and audience members alike. She has an extraordinary ability to listen, synthesize, and perform the heart of any story. Her warmth, nonjudgmental questioning, and her ability to find the universal threads (not to mention her own mad talent for storytelling) create an experience of insight and transformation.  And joy. There is joy! I highly recommend this experience for everyone!” –Jennifer Jacobson

“You (Erin) have a unique ability to make others feel safe with sharing intimate stories and then spontaneously extract the essence of their story so that the person telling the story feels understood and others feel a rapport with the story teller.” —Recent online participant

“Whoa! Your ability to convey stories, feelings, memories in this way is amazing and a gift. Thank you. I was particularly taken by the notion of how those we have lost (to death, injury or estrangement) shape who we are or can shape who we are if we are willing to explore and challenge our truths. Your playback really brought that theme out tonight. There is a beauty and an opportunity to try for a certain peace in this journey even if our evolving truth may always be tainted by the falsehoods we still tell ourselves but don't acknowledge...yet. My aging experience resonates with much of what was shared tonight.” —Online Solar Playback Attendee

“Uplifting, funny, touching...wonderful reflection on how “closeness” crosses generations, species, time. Closeness in community on zoom for a time...loved it.” —Recent online participant

“The power in sharing stories and being in community are already so rich, but to have your own story played back to you? Erin's performance, be it in an ensemble or solo, listens for the essence of your story and for the "you" inside of that story. She gathers your story with the whim of a magician, and wisdom of a shaman. She will perform your story back as if your story is medicine to the whole community. It ends up, it is! “—Kellie Ryan

“It was an amazing experience to feel so connected to our collective humanity.” –Recent online participant

“Erin Curren's ability to listen to people’s stories, to capture what motivates people to tell them, and to hear the unspoken and often unarticulated emotions that inhabit the storytellers is not only phenomenal and unique, but also always respectful and tactful. As a talented, versatile, and multifaceted actress, she then renders the stories passed on to her and plays them back to the storyteller by giving them new shapes, twists, associations, tensions, and fluidity that allow the person who shared their story to envision it from a new vantage point, both familiar and slightly different. Everyone in the audience ends up being moved, touched, and blessed by the universal emotions and human challenges we face individually and as a community. You leave Erin's performance transformed and with a renewed sense of being connected. Many thanks.” —Alexandre Dauge-Roth