She dances. She acts. She can own a room, wearing each color’s boldest shade. Her name is Erin Everywhere, and she was born to entertain. And yes, that’s her real last name.
Beginning as a nickname, the Preston Hollow resident later made it her legal name, because it fit her lifestyle so well. Everywhere juggles myriad entertainment gigs while building her own brand as a self-described “atmosphere enhancer.”
She recalls the first time she was given the nickname in 2013, while managing artists in the electronic dance music scene.
She met Christian Karlsson, a Swedish EDM icon, on a cruise ship.
“We talked and then we met again at Miami Music Week. Then again in Las Vegas. I saw him right before he went on stage and he was like, ‘You’re everywhere.’ It stuck with me, and my friends were all about it.”
Everywhere’s entertainment exploits weren’t just limited to the music scene. She’s made a number of appearances on reality TV, including Let’s Make A Deal and family court show Relative Justice. In 2014, she gave a tongue-in-cheek performance as an adulterous corporate executive on Cheaters, then again months later as an expert on “being the other woman” on Maury.
The gigs are unusual and widespread, but she has neighborhood jobs too. Everywhere remains active locally, performing on stage at various theaters in the city. Most recently, she worked as an understudy for Ochre House in Deep Ellum.
“I had to memorize 80 pages of dialogue, and I’m thinking to myself, with all this studying, I could have been a lawyer or a doctor,” Everywhere jokes.
Ironically, her acting skills have still managed to cross over into the medical world. She occasionally works as a student patient for the Texas A&M medical program. The students in training aren’t allowed to diagnose regular patients, so actors are sent in to portray specific illnesses and answer questions prompted by the students.
Everywhere enjoys the educational aspect that acting brings.
“If I ever got an audition, I know how to say certain medical terms, and I’m also pretty sure I could actually diagnose appendicitis,” she quips.
Everywhere’s lifetime of entertaining has manifested as a way to bring smiles to people around her. As a kid, she entertained herself as a way to escape. She was adopted into an abusive family, she says, spending her childhood living out of hotels and witnessing the worst of her surroundings.
“For me, playing pretend was a way to just distance myself. It was a coping mechanism,” she says. “You’re going to develop something that’s productive or destructive to you every day. At a young age I decided to choose things that would be productive and healthy for me because I saw what destructive behavior did to people who are raising me and I didn’t want that for myself.”
At 16, she ran away from that family and worked two jobs to fund an education at Dallas College. After college, she found work in mechanical engineering and had a brief marriage.
“I’m not keeping the marriage. Why keep the last name? I didn’t want to go back to the name I was given by my adoptive family for obvious reasons,” she says. “I really feel like this name, it’s more who I am.”
Everywhere makes every day a new adventure for everybody around her. Whether it be partying at EDM clubs, acting on stage, game show appearances or diagnosing appendicitis, the “atmosphere enhancer” makes it memorable.
“I’m an entertainer, right?” she says. “I love having a name that entertains people.”
