Holly L. Derr

@hld6oddblend

Director of new plays and gender-flipped Shakespeare, professor of theater, and feminist media critic.

Memphis, TN
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Joined July 2011
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  1. Apr 4

    Performing the Peace

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  2. Apr 4

    Performing the Peace Police and Former Prisoners Use Playback Theatre to Build Trust in their Community. Originally published by Southern Theatre Magazine Fall 2021. At a time when George Floyd has become a household name and police-community...

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  3. Feb 28

    Using Critical Fabulation in History-Based Playwriting

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  4. Feb 28

    Using Critical Fabulation in History-Based Playwriting Using Critical Fabulation in History-Based Playwriting Originally published by HowlRound on March 3, 2021 When the pandemic hit last March, the University of Memphis, as with most theatres...

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  5. Feb 27

    Forget the Times: Stream This Feminist Playwright’s New Work Now

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  6. Feb 27

    Forget the Times: Stream This Feminist Playwright’s New Work Now Forget the Times: Stream This Feminist Playwright’s New Work Now Gathering us together virtually through her play, The Catastrophist, Lauren Gunderson invites us to celebrate and...

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    16 Oct 2021

    Meghan’s ANPF winning play WHAT HAPPENED WHILE HERO WAS DEAD, directed by , will have a live virtual reading followed by a talkback with the artists on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 6 pm PT. An encore on-demand presentation of the reading will be available Oct. 26-31.

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    25 Mar 2021

    The Catastrophist—a play by —"beautifully layer[s] themes of faith, health, family and performance," writes in her review.

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    24 Mar 2021

    Check this article out about incredible piece “The Catastrophists” streaming through . Beautifully written by Forget the Times—Stream This Feminist Playwright's Newest Work Now via

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    23 Mar 2021

    Well, how do you do. 👀👀👀 Thank you for always standing up to sexism. Thank you for your bravery and articulation of a too often written (and too little rebuked) form of misogyny.

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  11. 4 Mar 2021

    I loved working on this project with !

    "It would be easy to make the past racist, but it is much harder to grapple with what racism and white supremacy look like in a contemporary rehearsal room in this moment."
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    3 Mar 2021

    "It would be easy to make the past racist, but it is much harder to grapple with what racism and white supremacy look like in a contemporary rehearsal room in this moment."

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    3 Mar 2021

    "That became the point of me telling the story—that I’m a Black woman in 2020, looking back on my own city’s history, and I can’t find anything." — with

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    10 Sep 2020

    Director @LavinaJadhwani recently published an important field guide titled “Dismantling Anti-Black Linguistic Racism in Shakespeare.” Read more about its origins and purpose in her interview with via .

    Holly Derr () interviews Lavina Jadhwani (@LavinaJadhwani) about the document she created, Dismantling Anti-Black Linguistic Racism in Shakespeare, which offers several examples of potentially anti-Black language & possible substitutions.
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    27 Aug 2020

    Holly Derr () interviews Lavina Jadhwani (@LavinaJadhwani) about the document she created, Dismantling Anti-Black Linguistic Racism in Shakespeare, which offers several examples of potentially anti-Black language & possible substitutions.

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  16. 28 May 2020

    The University of Memphis Department of Theatre and Dance is looking to commission a play about the impact on immigrants and African Americans of Memphis’ 1870s yellow fever epidemics. Get in touch if you're interested!

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  17. 25 May 2020

    Amazing Memphis'-based news or: Meet our journalists who cover justice by

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  18. 16 May 2020

    The Art and Craft of Intimacy Direction

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  19. 15 May 2020

    The Ms. Q&A: Why Holland Taylor Wanted to Act Like Ann Richards

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  20. 14 May 2020

    and the Method

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