CURRENT MISSION

To write good songs, sing, play music, play cards & games, spend time with friends & relatives & dogs, and to watch and read as much sci-fi as possible!

ABOUT ME

I'm a harpist, singer and actor -- I think my bio says a lot, so I'll paste that in below :-)
Bio:
Erin Hill is a singer, harpist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, actor and science fiction geek. She’s played and sung with Kanye West, Enya, a-ha, Cyndi Lauper, Levon Helm, moby, Randy Newman, Joan Osborne, Jewel, Sinead O’Connor, etc. and has played solo at The Royal Albert Hall. She is also known as The Pretty White Girl from Comedy Central’s Chappelle’s Show.

Erin won a 2013 Independent Music Award for her song “Stun,” from her debut Erin Hill & her Psychedelic Harp album Girl Inventor. She was featured in a “Game of Thrones” promo for HBO (2013), playing the “Game of Thrones” theme song on her harp, and she is the voice & harp of Tafne for the 2013 Android video game “The Legacy of Barubash.” Erin also did Original Music and Sound Design for the 2013 Drama Desk Award-nominated “That Play: a Solo Macbeth.”

USA Today premiered Erin’s sci-fi music video “Lookout, Science” as an exclusive in 2012. Both the “Lookout, Science” and the “Giant Mushrooms” videos, along with her album Girl Inventor, were made possible by Erin’s Kickstarter project “Erin Hill (the Sci-Fi Harp Girl) makes a Music Video Album."

Erin Hill & her Psychedelic Harp was a Dragon*Con house band in 2012, and both of her sci-fi music videos, “Giant Mushrooms” and “Lookout, Science,” were part of the Dragon*Con Independent Film Festival 2012.

In the film Clear Blue Tuesday, she is a composer, screenwriter, and actor. The New York Times said: “Erin Hill, as a giddy, harp-playing Trekker, is a standout… The best and funniest scene in the film is Ms. Hill’s, a first date that looks promising until the conversation turns to the relative merits of Star Trek: Voyager…..” Erin was also in the Tim Robbins film Cradle Will Rock (and appears on the soundtrack alongside Eddie Vedder & PJ Harvey); HBO’s The Chris Rock Show; Comedy Central’s Chappelle’s Show; and PBS’s American Masters.

Erin is known at the Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South in NYC for her rock ‘n’ roll arrangements on solo harp, playing and singing everything from Bowie, The Beatles, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young to Aerosmith, The Police, Prince and Lady Gaga. Another specialty of hers is Celtic music; her Celtic album "Four Leaf Clover" hit #1 on the Billboard World chart in 2009.

Erin toured with the Lincoln Center "South Pacific" as harpist and pianist, and is the harpist on the new soundtrack for "The Fantasticks," on Martha Wainwright’s self-titled debut album, on various commercials (Dunkin’ Donuts, etc.) and on MTV2’s "Wonder Showzen."

As a stage actor, she was in the original Broadway casts of "Titanic," Sam Mendes’ "Cabaret," and "Urinetown" and has twice been part of the Sundance Theater Lab in Utah, originating the role of Ilse in "Spring Awakening" with Duncan Sheik, and as musical director for "Lil’s 90th" (also at the Long Wharf Theater) with Jo Bonney. She was seen most recently in "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" at Classic Stage Company in NYC alongside Bebe Neuwirth and Christina Ricci (Newsday called her “the dangerously enjoyable Erin Hill”).

Erin toured with and opened for a-ha in 2008 in Europe and London, where she played solo at the Royal Albert Hall (see the a-ha.com interview with Erin on a-ha’s official site). Erin is also huge Beatles fan, and performs regularly with Jimmy Vivino (of Conan O’Brien) and Will Lee (of Letterman) in The Fab Faux.

And lastly, she also juggles and is an expert at walking on her hands (one of which can be seen in the film Clear Blue Tuesday, and the other on The Rosie O’Donnell Show, the 52nd Annual Tony Awards, and Late Night with David Letterman).

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy life, help the environment, stay close with family & friends... write good songs to leave behind

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been couchsurfing since November 2008, when I went out on the 1st national tour of South Pacific, but I've also hosted a few people on my weeks off from the tour, when I'm back in NYC. Looking forward to being off the tour and doing more hosting...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed for a year-and-a-half while I was on tour with the musical "South Pacific" -- it totally made the tour worth doing! I can't imagine having done it any other way! I love staying in real homes, as opposed to hotels, and I love meeting new people. I've done a lot of gigs in a lot of different cities, with various bands I'm in, so have gotten to stay a lot of different places. I've also had lots of house guests myself :-)

Interests

sci-fi, music, games (Pinochle, Celebrity, Taboo, etc.), Civil War and WWII, mythology, antiques, classic TV and old movies, Star Trek, The Beatles

• cats
• dogs
• singing
• theater
• design
• acting
• festivals
• environment
• walking
• movies
• tv
• music
• emergency services
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Death on the Nile, Rosemary's Baby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Twelve O'Clock High, Streetcar Named Desire, Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Clint Eastwood, Casablanca, Silent Running

TV Series: Buffy, Angel, all the Treks, Battlestar Galactica, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire, House, Fringe, The Good Wife, 30 Rock

The Beatles, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Randy Newman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I played solo at the Royal Albert Hall! Me, by myself, on electric harp, I played 4 songs (to open for a-ha), and it was the most incredible experience of my life. I hope that before it's all over, I have something that exciting happen again!

Teach, Learn, Share

Something everyone might not know about cats is -- if someone is allergic, it doesn't matter if a cat is shut out of a room; if the cat has ever hung out in the room, the walls, etc. will be covered with cat dander, so it's almost the same as having the actual cat in the room. But if you have a room where the cat never goes, then that's good for people who are allergic.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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