Holly Yurth Richards

Holly Yurth Richards

Holly Yurth Richards is a playwright, composer, lyricist, librettist, novelist, essayist, poet and performer.

Her new musical-in-development, WELCOME TO ZION, was part of the 2019 Fertile Ground Festival of New Works at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR. It has since had readings in Oct 2019 at Broadway Rose Theatre Company and in May 2021 online through The Dramatists Guild.
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Holly Yurth Richards is a playwright, composer, lyricist, librettist, novelist, essayist, poet and performer.

Her new musical-in-development, WELCOME TO ZION, was part of the 2019 Fertile Ground Festival of New Works at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR. It has since had readings in Oct 2019 at Broadway Rose Theatre Company and in May 2021 online through The Dramatists Guild.

Holly's work was highlighted at the 2018 Dramatists Guild National Conference Songwriters' Showcase. She was a panelist at BroadwayCon 2018 at the Javitz Center in New York City. Her short play, HANDWASH ONLY, is a 2018 winner of That 24 hr. Thing Playwriting Competition in conjunction with the San Diego International Fringe Festival. She wrote and starred in her one-woman musical named POP! GOES THE BUBBLE in the 2017 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival at the Vieve Gore Concert Hall in Salt Lake City.

She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Maestra Music, and LineStorm Playwrights. She holds a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon, and was the recipient of the Thomas A. Binford Scholarship for Writing from 2015-2018. She is a past grand prize winner in the Utah Young Writers @ Work Competition, and has received honors from both the League of Utah Writers and the Utah State Poetry Society.

She works as the Development Manager at Broadway Rose Theatre Company, in Tigard, OR, and runs a small press with her husband called Octavo Publishing.

Plays

  • Tale of a Girl
    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...
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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.