Kathryn Ervin

Kathryn Ervin was born in June 1955 at the Valley Forge Army Hospital in Pennsylvania where her father was stationed. Later she and her family moved to Detroit, Michigan where she and her friend Michael Dinwiddie (Professor and playwright at Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University) created a youth theatre company called Satori which performed poetry, plays, and dances while touring throughout Michigan. She also attended Wayne State University in Michigan where she received her bachelor’s and then attended Ohio State University and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree. Afterward, Ervin began teaching at Michigan State University and taught there for 7 years until she came to California and began and continues to teach theatre arts at CSUSB.