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Prudence Wright Holmes

PRUDENCE WRIGHT HOLMES

  (1955 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    The Luedtke Agency  

Prudence Wright Holmes is an actor and writer and has appeared on Broadway with Meryl Streep in Happy end, with Maggie Smith in Lettuce and Lovage, with George C Scott in Inherit the Wind, and most recently in the Tony award-winning musical the Light in the Piazza at Lincoln Center and on the first National Tour. She has also had featured roles in the films Sister act I and II with Whoopi Goldberg, Kingpin with Woody Harrelson, My Own Love Song with Renee Zellweger, after.Life with Liam Neeson, Boardwalk empire with Steve Buscemi and In Dreams with Annette Bening.Off-Broadway, Ms. Holmes was in the original casts of Godspell and Sister Mary Ignatius explains it all for You and has performed at many regional Theatres and on numerous prime-time television shows.She is the author of the books Voices of Thinking Jewish Women, Monologue Mastery, the plays Beat Chick, Wannabes, Call Me William ,Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and the solo play Bexley, Oh!, which she performed to very positive reviews at the New York Theatre Workshop. Ms. Holmes frequently reads at KGB Red Room, the Living Room, and the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Prudence Wright Holmes's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Beat Chick         Bexley, Oh!         Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker         My Willa

Beat Chick

Synopsis:
what happens to an eager young woman poet at the birth of the Beat Generation and allen Ginsberg's "Howl" in San Francisco in the mid 1950's.

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Bexley, Oh!

Synopsis:
Story of my father's crUSAde to bring accused wife killer Dr. Sam Sheppard to justice in Ohio in the 1950's. as a small child I helped my Father get Dr. Sam convicted of second degree murder. It was the happiest time of my life.

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Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

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based on a true story of Mary Todd Lincoln and her best friend, her black dressmaker, Lizzy Keckly.

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My Willa

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My Willa is a solo play about the life of famous author, Willa Cather. Growing up in a small town in Nebraska in the 1880's, Cather dressed as a man and called herself William. Threatened with expulsion from college for her cross-dressing ways, she reluctantly assumed a female identity and later became a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. However, her love affairs with women caused her considerable anguish since her sexual orientation was judged harshly by the times in which she lived .

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