Holly Twyford

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Holly Twyford is a Washington, D.C.-based American stage actress. She is a nine-time nominee and a three-time winner of the Helen Hayes Award. [http://www.helenhayes.org Helen Hayes Awards] ]

Biography

Twyford grew up in Great Falls, Virginia.Horwitz, Jane (May 25, 1999). [Backstage] . Page C.05. Publisher: The Washington Post] She attended the School of Theatre Arts at Boston University's School of Theatre Arts before returning to the D.C. area to pursue acting.Tischler, Gary (January 26, 2003). [http://www.downtowner.org/archives/012603/cat_performance.html Performance] . Publisher: The Georgetowner] Before her theatre career was established, she worked as a bartender and in the costume department of the renowned Arena Stage, where she would later star.

Twyford has appeared in over thirty productions, including Arena Stage, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Studio Theatre, Source Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Theatre J, Olney Theatre, Round House Theatre and the now-defunct Consenting Adults Theater Company, where she earned her first Helen Hayes Award nomination in 1993. [(December 29, 2004). [http://www.studiotheatre.org/about/press_releases.php?pid=79 Holly Twyford and Matthew Montelongo Together Again in "Black Milk"] . Publisher: Studio Theatre] She commonly collaborates with director Joe Banno on offbeat productions of Shakespeare plays, including a 1999 version of "Hamlet" at the Folger in which Twyford, along with three others, portrayed the protagonist as a fractured personality.

Twyford's film and television appearances include "Out of Season", "Pecker", "Falling to Peaces" and a 1997 episode of "." [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0878662/ Holly Twyford] . Publisher: Internet Movie Database]

Twyford is a lesbian and has been out for her entire career.Shulman, Randy (April 7, 2005). [http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=1537 Stage Presence: Theatrical Bonds] . Publisher: Metro Weekly] As of 2003, she had been with her partner, an environmentalist, for eleven years.

In a 2005 group interview with director Delia Taylor and playwright Jeanette Buck for "Metro Weekly", she said that she didn't feel her homosexuality had hindered her career, but that the necessity of coming out to coworkers when starting a new job "gets to be real tiring". In the same interview, she and her colleagues also discussed the paucity of female roles and the need for more female directors, playwrights and producers in both the theatre industry and Hollywood.

Helen Hayes Awards

References

*Horwitz, Jane. "Backstage." The Washington Post 25 May 1999, sec. Style: c05.
*Shulman, Randy. " [http://www.metroweekly.com/feature/?ak=1537 Stage Presence: Theatrical Bonds.] " Metro Weekly 7 Apr. 2005. 9 July 2007.
*Tischler, Gary. " [http://www.downtowner.org/archives/012603/cat_performance.html Performance.] " The GeorgeTowner. 26 Jan. 2003. 9 July 2007.

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