Holly Holsinger is a Creator, Director, and Performer of Theatre, Playwright, and Educator, with specialization in devising new plays, and using theatre to engage, empower and educate. Holly recently remounted her solo performance Frankenstein’s Wake, co-created with Raymond Bobgan, at the Freedom and Focus Conference in London and at Catapult in New Orleans. Frankenstein’s Wake previously received critical raves and audience acclaim in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago, and was featured at the Grotowski at Irvine and Beyond Conference at UC Irvine. She co-wrote and directed Ancestra at CPT, a play about women’s rights in Ohio, which grew from community explorations and historical research. Another recent work, Insomnia: The Waking of Herselves, co-devised and performed at CPT and North American Cultural Laboratory, examines concepts of female identity and “wholeness.Holly is an Associate Professor at Cleveland State University where she teaches acting, voice, and movement. She received a Distinguished Faculty Award in 2017, the university’s top honor for teaching. She received an MFA in Acting from the University of California, Irvine and is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework.
MFA University of California-Irvine; BA Boise State University.
Languages: English Specializations: Acting, Movement
