Holly L. Derr

Holly L. Derr is the Head of Graduate Directing and Artistic Director at the University of Memphis. She has directed for The Know Theatre, Ashland New Plays Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival School Visit Program, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, and The Stonington Opera House, among others. She has taught and directed at Smith College, The American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University, The Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company Consortium, the California Institute of the Arts, the University of California at Riverside, and Southern Oregon University. Holly is also a feminist media critic who has been published by The Atlantic, HowlRound, Ms. Magazine, Slate, Southern Theatre Magazine, and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Originally from Dallas, TX, she holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from UNC-Chapel Hill and was the 2017 Producing Fellow at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.