Holli Harms

As a playwright Holli has been awarded the Terrence G. Hall Fellowship, a Dramatist Guild Fellow, and an EST/Sloan Grant.  She is TNT Pops Winner and Three-Time Winner of Austin Film Festival Second Rounder. Winner Fishamble Tiny Plays Challenge, Sky Blue Theatre 2019 Play Competition. Holli was commissioned by 365 Women A Year to write a play about science fiction writer, Octavia E. Butler. She was a Finalist for A Room Of Her Own and finalist two years in a row with the Nantucket Short Play Festival. Her play NAPLES, FL was a finalist with the Great Plains Theatre Festival as well as New York’s Summer Play Festival. As a screenwriter, her short narrative "Icarus Stops For Breakfast" has won over 23 awards from over 35 festivals. Her flash fiction story, “The Russians”, is published in...

As a playwright Holli has been awarded the Terrence G. Hall Fellowship, a Dramatist Guild Fellow, and an EST/Sloan Grant.  She is TNT Pops Winner and Three-Time Winner of Austin Film Festival Second Rounder. Winner Fishamble Tiny Plays Challenge, Sky Blue Theatre 2019 Play Competition. Holli was commissioned by 365 Women A Year to write a play about science fiction writer, Octavia E. Butler. She was a Finalist for A Room Of Her Own and finalist two years in a row with the Nantucket Short Play Festival. Her play NAPLES, FL was a finalist with the Great Plains Theatre Festival as well as New York’s Summer Play Festival. As a screenwriter, her short narrative "Icarus Stops For Breakfast" has won over 23 awards from over 35 festivals. Her flash fiction story, “The Russians”, is published in The Dead Mule Southern Literature, as well as her essay I GREW UP. Her plays have been produced by Sky Blue Theatre Co in UK, Estrogenius Festival NYC, Edgemar Center Santa Monica, and City Theatre, Miami, to name a few.

Her play MAKE JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY GO HOME, which was produced by City Theatre’s Summer Shorts Festival, Miami, is published in Smith & Krause’s “Anthology Of 50 Best Ten Minute Plays”.  Her play COUGAR is published in “The City Theatre Anthology”.  Her essay, “Crashing”, about the adoption of her daughter, Beatrice, in China is published in Verbal Supply Company.

She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and a contributing writer for Verbal Supply Company and Monologues & Madness. Holli is also contributing screenwriter for the directing program at School Of Visual Arts (SVA) NYC, and on the board of Women In The Arts and Media Coalition. She is reviewer for Front Row Center.

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Scripts

Hello and Good Bye

by Holli Harms

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy

Aunt Rue and Uncle Joe and their two nieces gather to say farewell to their beloved Middle School Choir Master and teacher. But their simple send-off quickly takes one unbelievable turn after another and a funeral pyre becomes much more. 

Aunt Rue and Uncle Joe and their two nieces gather to say farewell to their beloved Middle School Choir Master and teacher. But their simple send-off quickly takes one unbelievable turn after another and a funeral pyre becomes much more. 

Popping Your Skirt And Swimming

by Holli Harms

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy

A kayak, paddle, and broom are held as weapons of choice, and the outside sun is kept at bay. There is celery that has to be wrapped and beds that have to be moved. The neighbors are taking their house apart piece by piece, and Greg feels trapped inside with only his mother and grandmother. He has more, a wife and child out there where there are teeth gnashing. Or does he? He has to find out, but how?

A kayak, paddle, and broom are held as weapons of choice, and the outside sun is kept at bay. There is celery that has to be wrapped and beds that have to be moved. The neighbors are taking their house apart piece by piece, and Greg feels trapped inside with only his mother and grandmother. He has more, a wife and child out there where there are teeth gnashing. Or does he? He has to find out, but how?

The Revolution of Katey and Bear

by Holli Harms

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy

A young couple discover the repercussions of loss and blame. Katey and Michael have everything or so it seems but a decision they made to terminate her pregnancy has left one moving on and one stuck in pain. Michael’s got a knife and Katey a stuffed bear and hammer and neither is backing down.

A young couple discover the repercussions of loss and blame. Katey and Michael have everything or so it seems but a decision they made to terminate her pregnancy has left one moving on and one stuck in pain. Michael’s got a knife and Katey a stuffed bear and hammer and neither is backing down.

Palmetto

by Holli Harms

1
Cast Size
8
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama

Palmetto is a play within a play containing three intertwined storylines of both time and structure: A prominent and influential theatre company that has made its mark in the world by doing plays by writers of color chooses to do an exciting new play about the Underground Railroad only to learn that the playwright is not who they thought she was.  A young couple, runaway slaves, struggle their way north to...

Palmetto is a play within a play containing three intertwined storylines of both time and structure: A prominent and influential theatre company that has made its mark in the world by doing plays by writers of color chooses to do an exciting new play about the Underground Railroad only to learn that the playwright is not who they thought she was.  A young couple, runaway slaves, struggle their way north to Canada and discover what freedom really means to each other.  A young boy, born into slavery, posses an art unlike any other and, who with his art, takes a journey that lifts him above his tortured bondage.  

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Gorilla

by Holli Harms

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
movement/physical

Claire Holden can no longer have sex with her husband Fletcher so they hire a surrogate to be Fletcher’s sex partner. But things take a turn when Fletcher steps over his wife unexpectedly and leaves her wondering how invisible does a woman become when she is no longer sexually viable...when she has aged past cat-calls, wolf whistles and double takes. Spinning and chest pounding and much to do about much ensue.

Claire Holden can no longer have sex with her husband Fletcher so they hire a surrogate to be Fletcher’s sex partner. But things take a turn when Fletcher steps over his wife unexpectedly and leaves her wondering how invisible does a woman become when she is no longer sexually viable...when she has aged past cat-calls, wolf whistles and double takes. Spinning and chest pounding and much to do about much ensue.

For Abby

by Holli Harms

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy

At a writer’s retreat in the mountains, a woman waits for a new friend but when an old one shows up she finally has the chance to confront what happened years ago and hopefully mend the relationship.

At a writer’s retreat in the mountains, a woman waits for a new friend but when an old one shows up she finally has the chance to confront what happened years ago and hopefully mend the relationship.

Cougar

by Holli Harms

3
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
romantic comedy

A woman of a certain age arrives at a bar to meet up with her college love but what she finds instead surprises not only her but everyone else, including the broad at the bar.

A woman of a certain age arrives at a bar to meet up with her college love but what she finds instead surprises not only her but everyone else, including the broad at the bar.

Make John Patrick Shanley Home

by Holli Harms

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy

At a restaurant/bar in New York City, three sisters arrive for what they hope to be a nice dinner out.  But with no bread on the table, or calamari on the menu and a famous playwright at the bar, tonight there will be a whole lot of stomping, finger pointing and bully calling.

At a restaurant/bar in New York City, three sisters arrive for what they hope to be a nice dinner out.  But with no bread on the table, or calamari on the menu and a famous playwright at the bar, tonight there will be a whole lot of stomping, finger pointing and bully calling.