Born and raised in Los Angeles to a Japanese mother and a jazz-drummer father, Erskine honed her craft at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, and as a 2005 YoungArts alumnus before enrolling at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she shifted from musical theater to the Experimental Theater Wing and met future collaborator Anna Konkle during a s…
