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Artist Bio

Suli Holum

is a Brooklyn based performer, writer, and director.  She has performed with Pig Iron Theatre Company, The Talking Band, Theatre of the Two Headed Calf and Off-Broadway: Hot ‘n’ Throbbing, Courting Vampires, Live Girls, Lebensraum; Regional: Arena Stage: Born Yesterday; Humana Festival: At the Vanishing Point, Phoenix.  She received a Drama Desk Award for her performance in Israel Horowitz's 'Lebensraum' off-Broadway, and was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Billie Dawn in 'Born Yesterday' at Arena Stage. Her first original solo show, The Lollipop Project, was developed through a Independence Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship and a Shell Fellowship in Drama from the National Institute of Education in Singapore.  Holum was a founding artistic director of Pig Iron Theatre Company.  She wrote Pig Iron's 'Gentlemen Volunteers', winner of a Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, and subsequently toured throughout Europe.  She performed in Joseph Chaikin's collaboration with Pig Iron, 'Shut Eye', with text by Deborah Stein,  at The Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Dance Theatre Workshop (NYC), the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, the Wilma Theatre (Philadelphia), Theatre Artaud (San Francisco), and throughout Poland.  She won a Barrymore Award for choreography for Pig Iron's wordless 'Cafeteria' and created roles in numerous other Pig Iron works. Holum was a participant in the 2009 Orchard Project with  Emmanuelle Delpeche-Ramey for their original adaptation of Paul Claudel's L'Echange.  She has a commission from England's Red Cape Theatre to write One Beach Road premiering September 2011. Her HERE Artist Residency is supported by a TCG Fox Resident Actor Fellowship.

Deborah Stein’s plays include God Save Gertrude, Wallflower, Bone Portraits and The Aerodynamics of Accident. Her work has been produced and developed nationally at Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Theatre @ Boston Court, the Guthrie, the Children’s Theatre, Seattle Rep, Stages Rep, the Women’s Project, the Wilma Theatre, Azuka Theatre Company, Live Girls!, and Theatre Artaud; in New York at the Public Theatre, Dance Theatre Workshop, and Ars Nova; and internationally in Poland, Ireland, Edinburgh (the Traverse) and Prague. A frequent collaborator of the Pig Iron Theatre Company, she most recently worked on Welcome To Yuba City, and was twice nominated for the Barrymore Award for Best New Play, for The Lucia Joyce Cabaret and Shut Eye (dir. Joseph Chaikin). Her writing is published in Theatre Forum, Play: A Journal of Plays, and The Best American Poetry of 1996. She has been an artist in residence at Hedgebrook, Swarthmore College, Princeton University, the Tofte Lake Center for the Arts, and the Lexington Center, and has taught at NYU, Northeastern University, St. Olaf College, Parsons School of Design, and Brown University, where she received her MFA. Deborah is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center (Minneapolis), where she is co-producing director of the Workhaus Collective. She is the recipient of a 2009-2011 Bush Artist Fellowship and a member of New Dramatists.

Artist Statement

Chimera is an opportunity for us—playwright and performer/creator—to revisit a foundational collaborative relationship that began almost ten years ago. This piece marks a return to the initial impulses that brought us to theatre in the first place: a commitment to devising new ways of telling a story by experimenting with form, to taking on deeply personal narratives that haunt us as individuals and making them speak to a broad spectrum of audience, and a core belief that plays are most vibrantly theatrical and alive when created through intensive collaboration.

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