Holly Holsinger is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Cleveland State University, specializing in acting, voice, and movement, as well experimental theatre techniques. Shehas been an artist at Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) for the past thirteen years and is a member and co-founder of Wishhounds, a group which researches and creates performance. As a local theatre artist, she has created/performed in over ten original plays including Blue Sky Transmission and her solo piece Frankenstein’s Wake, both of which toured Off-Broadway. Frankenstein’s Wake, hailed “an exhilarating bravura performance” by Time Out New York, received critical raves in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago, and was featured at the Grotowski at Irvine and Beyond Conference. A short article by Ms. Holsinger on her experience of Grotowski’s Objective Drama Program is published in the Summer 2000 issue of Slavic andEast European Performance. She has directed plays by local playwrights as well as many new works by high school and college students. She is one of the founders of CPT’s Student Theatre Enrichment Program (STEP), now in it’s twelfth year; a program which gives inner-city teens a voice through theatre. Holsinger received an M.F.A. in Acting from The University of California, Irvine where she was a student of Robert Cohen and a four-year participant in Grotowski’s Objective Drama Program. Her work with Grotowski and his associates is documented in the book Grotowski’sObjective Drama Research by Lisa Wolford. She has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Romania, Belgium, and Brazil. Her work has been featured in national and international publications such as The Drama Review, American Theatre Magazine, and Canadian Theatre Review. She has taught acting and theatre at The Ohio State University, University of Akron, Lorain County Community College, and Cuyahoga Community College and is pleased to now serve full-time at CSU.

 

 

 

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