Holly Harmon

Holly Harmon is a playwright/composer/lyricist based in Portland, OR. Her musicals include POP! Goes the Bubble (GSL Fringe 2017), Empty Chairs (Dramatists Guild/ASCAP Songwriters Showcase, NYC 2018; Fertile Ground 2019; reading at Broadway Rose 2019; virtual reading at Dramatists Guild 2021), Tale of Girl (Part of Go Play Outside, Applause Books, 2022), Happily Never After (Fertile Ground 2026), and her latest written with Lolly Ward, CESSAIR: The Birth of Ireland (Fertile Ground 2024; reading at ART 2025). She is a member of LineStorm Playwrights, Maestra Music, ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild.

Holly Harmon is a playwright/composer/lyricist based in Portland, OR. Her musicals include POP! Goes the Bubble (GSL Fringe 2017), Empty Chairs (Dramatists Guild/ASCAP Songwriters Showcase, NYC 2018; Fertile Ground 2019; reading at Broadway Rose 2019; virtual reading at Dramatists Guild 2021), Tale of Girl (Part of Go Play Outside, Applause Books, 2022), Happily Never After (Fertile Ground 2026), and her latest written with Lolly Ward, CESSAIR: The Birth of Ireland (Fertile Ground 2024; reading at ART 2025). She is a member of LineStorm Playwrights, Maestra Music, ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild.

Scripts

Tale of a Girl

by Holly Harmon

Synopsis

Long ago, somewhere in the countryside, the wind brought a girl into the world and called her their own. Things were going swimmingly until a boy walked by one day...

This short, musical piece examines the difference between familial love and romantic love - and how we must allow room for both in our lives.

Both comedic and sincere, this wistful show is part of the anthology Go Play Outside with LineStorm...

Long ago, somewhere in the countryside, the wind brought a girl into the world and called her their own. Things were going swimmingly until a boy walked by one day...

This short, musical piece examines the difference between familial love and romantic love - and how we must allow room for both in our lives.

Both comedic and sincere, this wistful show is part of the anthology Go Play Outside with LineStorm Playwrights, edited by Lolly Ward and published by Applause Books.

Animalerica

by Holly Harmon

Synopsis

A robin, a snail, and a yellow jacket come together to mourn the loss of their country as they know it. Trigger warning: onstage barf (substance, not the act of) and the word "moist."

A robin, a snail, and a yellow jacket come together to mourn the loss of their country as they know it. Trigger warning: onstage barf (substance, not the act of) and the word "moist."

No More in Darkness

by Holly Harmon

Synopsis

Written for CodeRed Playwrights Volume IV in response to gun violence in places of worship, this short musical piece gives us a glimpse into the morning before tragedy struck an Amish community on October 2, 2006.

Written for CodeRed Playwrights Volume IV in response to gun violence in places of worship, this short musical piece gives us a glimpse into the morning before tragedy struck an Amish community on October 2, 2006.

Faded Glory

by Holly Harmon

Synopsis

A meeting is set up between a rising talent in the Underground Color Guard world (like Fight Club, only fancier and set to electronica music) and a former UCG star who faked her own death and is now pretending to live as her twin brother in a trailer park in the country.

A meeting is set up between a rising talent in the Underground Color Guard world (like Fight Club, only fancier and set to electronica music) and a former UCG star who faked her own death and is now pretending to live as her twin brother in a trailer park in the country.

Handwash Only - A Five Minute Play

by Holly Harmon

Synopsis

Shun, a thirty-nine year old chef's knife, and Lil' Goblet, a nineteen-year-old wine glass, face their destruction when they get placed in the dishwasher by their aging owner.

Shun, a thirty-nine year old chef's knife, and Lil' Goblet, a nineteen-year-old wine glass, face their destruction when they get placed in the dishwasher by their aging owner.

POP! Goes the Bubble - a New Musical

by Holly Harmon

Synopsis

ONE ACT MUSICAL: What happens when a naive, single Mormon woman decides to travel to New York City, her first trip EVER outside of Utah? The Mormon Bubble gets POPPED. In this one-woman musical, Cumorah must come to grips with the realities and limitations of her beliefs.

ONE ACT MUSICAL: What happens when a naive, single Mormon woman decides to travel to New York City, her first trip EVER outside of Utah? The Mormon Bubble gets POPPED. In this one-woman musical, Cumorah must come to grips with the realities and limitations of her beliefs.