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Clé Holly, JD, LL.M, is an author, composer, and singer-songwriter. Clé draws upon her unique and creative background to write musicals which feature smart, complex female characters. Clé is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago Law School, and the University of Houston Law Center, where as a Dean’s Scholar she was awarded the Neibel Scholarship for academic excellence in health law in 2015...
Clé Holly, JD, LL.M, is an author, composer, and singer-songwriter. Clé draws upon her unique and creative background to write musicals which feature smart, complex female characters. Clé is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago Law School, and the University of Houston Law Center, where as a Dean’s Scholar she was awarded the Neibel Scholarship for academic excellence in health law in 2015, and the Goldstein Award for Health Law Writing in April 2017. One of her musicals, PARALLEL LINES, was recognized in February 2020 as one of the top unproduced musicals in the country (“Producers Pick List 2019”), and her newest work, the original musical “Stretch”, was also recently recognized by The Bechdel Group for its positive portrayals of women.

Plays

  • FOUR - A play with music
    New York City, 2019. A professional string quartet on the brink of dissolution.
  • American Standard
    An inexperienced landlord takes on a tenant with a secret agenda.
  • Stretch
    In development. Festivals, workshops, schools welcomed! Synopsis: Finn Beale, a brand-new business owner of a yoga studio, wants to capture the fitness market in the newly-gentrifying neighborhood she’s just bought into, never mind that she knows nothing about the area other than its affordability. As there is no other yoga studio around for miles, Finn sits atop a very small mountain – and she’s not giving up...
    In development. Festivals, workshops, schools welcomed! Synopsis: Finn Beale, a brand-new business owner of a yoga studio, wants to capture the fitness market in the newly-gentrifying neighborhood she’s just bought into, never mind that she knows nothing about the area other than its affordability. As there is no other yoga studio around for miles, Finn sits atop a very small mountain – and she’s not giving up her prime perch.

    Finn struggles to find meaning; she thinks that if she succeeds at this venture then she’ll be known as a success and not the person she really is – sad, grieving, lonely, insecure, and depressed.

    The Inciting Incident occurs when competition sets up next door. Cameron’s new Zumba class threatens Finn’s sense of security because now her “stuck” patrons have somewhere else to turn…and they will definitely turn as Finn runs her studio like a taskmaster (“Perfection”). Sadly, Finn’s fear turns out to be right, and her students flee her studio like bats out of hell.

    What will happen to Finn’s business? Will she find a way to right the ship and get her students back, or will this new Zumba class be the death of her studio and her dream? And, in her attempt to save herself, will she finally learn to…stretch?
  • PARALLEL LINES
    In development. Festivals, workshops, schools welcomed! Synopsis: Estela Britt, an aspiring astrophysicist, joins the prestigious ranks of Hudson Branham University with great expectations: To grab all of the first-year awards on her way to science-level fame and fortune. Estela’s first step toward stardom? A position with a potentially fast trajectory and great upside: Graduate research assistant to Helen...
    In development. Festivals, workshops, schools welcomed! Synopsis: Estela Britt, an aspiring astrophysicist, joins the prestigious ranks of Hudson Branham University with great expectations: To grab all of the first-year awards on her way to science-level fame and fortune. Estela’s first step toward stardom? A position with a potentially fast trajectory and great upside: Graduate research assistant to Helen Lorde-Roll, an award-winning scientist and professor. Once Estela settles into the job, however, she finds a mentor who is tapped out of ideas and trapped in the classic quandary of “publish or perish”. What happens next? And, what happens when choosing success means losing your soul?