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Name: Holly Adams |
| "Holly Adams is truly an OUTSTANDING woman. She has been a theatre artist, teacher and performer in the Ithaca Area cor over 15 years. She teaches and coaches theatre for children in our area schools through various Hangar Theatre and CSMA programs. In 2000 and 2001 Holly joined Patch Adams (no relation) on humanitarian trips to Russia and Afghanistan clowning in orphanages, hospitals and schools...bringing light to people in dark times. The Afghanistan trip was in the company of the Italian military as the hostilities had not even ended when this trip took place. Holly brought the ideas of therapeutic clowning back to central New York and set up programs in nursing homes and for dementia patients in the area. Holly brings her acting and directing talents to various local agencies to do trainings on various human resource challenges facing those organizations. She has recently been asked to join the diversity consortium in recognition of her talents in being able to recognize and offer solutions to various issues facing many different organizations within our community. I highly recommend as an outstanding person that everyone should know!" Nominated by Thomas Hoebbel Bio: Holly Adams is an actor-dancer-writer- producer- teacher- therapeutic clown, loving wife and mother of two. She believes that art is how we really connect to, process and understand our world, each other, our best selves, our worst selves, our communities, our divinities, our learning, our living, our dying; whether that art is wall scribbling, telling stories, or performing at the Met, it has the power to make us think and make us invest emotionally, which is why she does all the crazy things she does. ` Holly has traveled with Patch Adams (no relation) to Russia and to Afghanistan doing therapeutic clowning, and worked as the Director of the Performance Department of the Mental Health Association of the Southern Tier doing interactive socio-drama. Holly continues to work with communities across the Northeast facilitating community-created performances of discovery and transformation. She has been a mask maker, stage combat choreographer and professional performer for over 25 years; some of her favorite performances include the Third Man in The Baltimore Waltz, clowning in Afghanistan and Italy with Ridere per Vivere, The Hangar’s Kidstuff show Further Adventures of Clown, VOICES/lives, The Oral Tradition Off –Broadway, Netta (leading lady) in the feature film In the Bag, as well as her shows at the Kitchen Theatre. She is the Artistic Director of Kakeru physical theatre company, Mystery & Adventure Agency and Shearwater Productions. Holly also loves being a teaching artist! Whether she is giving a master class in NYC or at a college, leading a professional development workshop, or creating arts-a-the-core inquiry based curricula for elementary and high schools across the state, she is loving every minute of it. Her work as an artist in residence for schools, universities, and other organizations links academic and arts curricula, as well as addressing social and cultural challenges like Bias Intervention. In 2009, Holly was named the Association of Teaching Artist's "Teaching Artist of the Year". She has an M.A. in Theatre, Education, and Social Change. Many thanks to my beloved family! |
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