Erin O'Brien is a Canadian-Irish PhD candidate in Theatre Studies, English, and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph, where her dissertation examines feminist satire, confessional comedy, and comedic catharsis in contemporary solo performance. Her work sits at the intersection of performance theory, feminism, and ace-ecologies, attending to how non-normative intimacies (bodies, land, and the more-than-human world) resist amatonormativity, compulsory sexuality, and hegemonic patriarchal oppression. Alongside her academic practice, she is an actress, improv performer, poet, and craftivism artist whose hand-embroidered feminist textile work has been featured in public woodland installations.