Holly Richmond

Holly Richmond is an emerging playwright/ theater artist based out of Connecticut. She is a graduate from the University of Connecticut with a B.A. in Theatre Studies concentrating in Playwriting, and Minors in English and Puppetry. She is also a graduate of the Advanced Playwriting program at Eugene O’Neill’s National Theatre Institute, as well as a Darmasiswa Indonesian Exchange Scholar where they studied Wayang Kuilit shadow puppetry at ISI Surakarta in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. Holly’s past works have been featured as a part of the the Mayfly 24-Hour Play Festival, Virtual Theatre Collaborative’s developmental series, the UCONN Drama Department’s 24-Hour Play Festival, and the Eugene O’Neill’s Young Playwrights Festival. In the Fall of 2022, they participated in a week-long developmental residency at the O’Neill for their play, Chamber. Holly’s dramaturgical works include Food for the Gods by Nephrii Amenii (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), Oh No! An Unfinished Play! by Will Jenkins (UCONN D-Series New Work), and selections from Finding Neil Patrick Harris by Donna Hoke and The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder (National Theater Institute). Their puppetry performance credits include mask work for Folly Adieu by Alyson Doyle (UCONN D-Series, 2022), shadow puppetry/ script work for Ramayana: A Tale of Trees and Wood by Matthew Issac Cohen and Holly Richmond (UCONN Puppet Arts, 2023), and shadow performance for A Final Departure by Tom Tuke (Paloma Puppet Company, 2023). She has also been a PA for the National Puppetry Conference at the O’Neill for renowned Italian shadow artist, Fabrizio Montecci, and for the Director of Production at the National Puppetry Conference and head of UCONN Puppet Arts, Bart P. Roccoberton Jr. Recently, they directed Lauren Elise Fisher’s one-person drag show “Saturn Says Shalom” for the Irvington New Works Incubator and Secret Theater’s Short Play Festival in Queens, NY, and was the second ASM for Thrown Stone Theatre Company’s production of Fool’s Paradise by Jonathon Winn.