Stage & Screen Actor

Holly Adams is a SAG-AFTRA performer with classic and conservatory training and a graduate of the International Dell ’Arte School. Her professional career covers two decades and four continents!  Known for her skills as a physical actor, her stage and film roles include Zombies, Aliens, and Shakespearean nymphs, witches, and warriors. Favorites include film features Gotham Blue, Anomie, and Here Alone and starring in shorts Cock Robin, Ginger Smith and Billy McGee, Your Loving, Virginia, Ovid, and Taps. Some stage favorites: Antony and Cleopatra (as Cleo), Love, Loss and What I WoreMy Father’s Dragon; A Midsummer Night’s DreamMacbeth; A Christmas Carol; Hotspur in Richard II; Touchstone in As You Like It, Richard III in Kynge’s Games as well as numerous physical theatre pieces.

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“As a performer, I am always in service to the piece I am working on, listening for its heart beat and breath, creating opportunity for those harmonic moments where audience and actor touch like a finger on a violin string. I am also a driven educator, a passionate director, and a take-no-prisoners kind of person. These rivers of my life converge in my role as Artistic Director of Shearwater Productions.” – Holly Adams


Holly’s Latest Work

Hey friends! We are about to start a NEW short film by Frances Barth, based on her Graphic Novel Ginger Smith and Billy McGee. Honored to be co-starring with Ron Nakahara again after the incredible success of Cock Robin- 15 wins and counting in the festival circuit! In other news, our physical theatre company Kakeru has a new (commissioned!) show that debuted in November and has shows into December. Two of our shows were at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, part of Kids Discover the Trails Ithaca. You can read about it here!

And….in betwixties, lots of audiobooks!

What’s in Holly’s head today

Happy February! I’m feeling grateful that Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring, and just finished a week full of wonderful shows with Symphoria, the professional symphony of Syracuse, NY. Each concert was for children and included Flight of the Bumblebees, the William Tell Overture, and Peter and the Wolf!!! The shows were wonderful, the kids were amazing. A dream come true for this actor! We are beginning work on our next circus show, and I have started working on Pagliacci for the summer at the Glimmerglass!!! #luckyme

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