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HOLLY HEPP-GALVAN
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: The Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc
Holly Hepp-Galvan lives in New York City. Her plays have been presented at or developed with Core Artist Ensemble, The Cell, The Bechdel Group, Wide-Eyed Productions, The New York International Fringe Festival, The Secret Theatre, The Story Gym, The Samuel French OOB Festival, Emerging Artist Theatre, Astoria Performing Arts Center and more. Holly is currently Resident Playwright with Brass Tacks, a theatre collective. She was the 2012 Playwright-in-Residence for Voices Inside/Out, a writing program for male inmates, and a finalist for TerraNOVA Groundbreakers, City Theatre's National Short Play Contest, and the Thomas Barbour Memorial Playwrights Award. Full length plays include ODDITIES (Irv Zarkower Award, Brass Tacks Theatre Collective), ANDREA'S ESOPHAGUS (Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize), CARDINIA'S CALLING (Hunter Playwrights), and TAMED (Pioneer Playhouse) Productions for children include SPRITES (Ballet Austin) and PETER AND THE PIPER, THE BIG BOLT! and TROUBLE ON THE DOUBLE (Pollyanna Theatre Company). Holly completed her M.F.A. in Playwriting at Hunter College where she studied with Tina Howe and Mark Bly. She was a two-time winner of the Irv Zarkower Award and the Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize. She currently serves on the faculty of Hunter College where she teaches Playwriting, Creative Dramatics, and Theatre for Youth.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Ambassador, The Big Bolt, The! Departure Peter and the Pied Piper Photo Album, The Sprites Tamed Where Bearded Ladies Come FromAmbassador, The
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A new life form has been discovered on Titan and NASA needs a special astronaut to fly up and meet it. But does Charles have the "necessary" skills?
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Top of PageBig Bolt, The!
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When Jimmy takes just one big bolt from the construction site, the entire town falls apart! Suddenly, the Opera Singer can't sing, the Mail Carrier can't deliver packages, stores have to close, and entire buildings are falling down. Everyone agrees that if they find who did this, that he'll be in a LOT of trouble. But as things get crazier and crazier, how will Jimmy tell the truth?
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Long Center, Austin, TX
2015
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Pollyanna Theatre Company
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Children's Theatre
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 4 m or f
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Citywrights Weekend For Playwrights
14 Jun 2012
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Top of PagePeter and the Pied Piper
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He's hip and slick, he's hot and cool, he's a rockin' rapper, and nobody's fool. Every kid wants to be as cool as the Pied Piper and will follow him wherever he goes. Only one boy, Peter, is brave enough to be say no. Together with Julius Cheeser, the one remaining rat in town, the two of them must figure out how to convince the others that this slick word master is up to no good.
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Long Center, Austin, TX
2014
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Pollyanna Theatre Company
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Children's Theatre
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Male: 3 Female: 1 Other: 1 m or f
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Top of PagePhoto Album, The
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Written by The Story Gym: Holly Hepp-Galvan, Jack Karp, C S Hanson, Daniel Ho and Lisa Reinke
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New York International Fringe Festival. New York, NY
08 Aug 2014
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Top of PageSprites
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One day, while trying to write a poem about a tree, Wren finds that her words come to life! In the form of three sprites, they can dance her poems and act out her stories. However when she tries to use them to post cruel words about her bullies, she finds the results more vicious and hurtful than she could've ever imagined.
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1st Produced:
Long Center in Austin, TX
2013
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Pollyanna Theatre Company and Ballet Austin
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Children's Theatre
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Top of PageTamed
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Tamed is a full length, rap version of The Taming of the Shrew! When sweet Bianca tries to choose a bachelor on the set of a reality show, her father announces that in order to marry her, the men must choose a husband for her sister. And while everyone is scared of Kate, a hip hop rapper with a tongue like fire, Beaver Man, a backwoods animal trainer, comes on and matches her with some hillbilly hip hop of his own.
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Large cast comedy
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Pioneer Playhouse, Danville, KY
2013
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Pioneer Playhouse
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Comedy
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Male: 6 Female: 4 Other: 10 m/f
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Top of PageWhere Bearded Ladies Come From
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The year is 1938 and a curious young girl has dared to peek behind the curtain at the Freak Show. What she sees there will change her life forever.
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1st Produced:
Peter J. Sharp Theatre, NYC
2013
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Samuel French OOB Festival
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