[email protected] | 206.794.3299 HOLLY ARSENAULT www.holly-arsenault.com playwright

FULL-LENGTH PLAYS AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

National Winter Playwriting Retreat, 2018 The Great Inconvenience Workshop production, Annex Theatre, July 2018 Artist Trust James W. Ray Venture Project Award nominee, 2016 The Manor Equity staged reading, Repertory Theatre, Seattle Rep Writers Group, 2013 - 2015

June 2015 Princess Grace Award semi-finalist for Undo,

2014 The Cut Equity staged reading, Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Theatre Critics Association new play June 2014 awards nominee for Undo, 2014

Educational developmental reading, University of Theatre Puget Sound Gregory Award for School of Drama, February 2015 Outstanding New Play for Undo, 2013

Seattle Theatre Writers Gypsy Rose Lee Award Marvelous for Excellence in Local Playwriting for Undo, Original adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s 2013 The Snow Queen, commissioned by The Drama School at Seattle Children’s Theatre Seattle Office of Arts & Culture CityArtist grant for Undo, 2012 Educational production, Seattle Children’s Theatre Drama School, July 2014, Heideman Award finalist for 24 Pictures of a Pilot, 2009 Educational production, Bainbridge Island Performing Arts Center, August 2015 PUBLICATIONS

Developmental reading, Live Girls! Theater, UPCOMING: Scattered Thoughts as I Prepare March 2016 a Eulogy on the Occasion of the Tragic Death of the Royal Children (short play, full text), Undo Caffe Cino magazine, Fall 2018 Workshop production, Annex Theatre, January 2013 The Octavia: A Post-Electric Play (essay) The Dramatist, Summer 2017 Production, Parade Productions, January 2015 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother Educational Production, The Theatre School at (essay), City Arts Magazine, 2015

DePaul University, April 2015 Undo (full-length play, full text), Manifesto Series v.4, edited by Chay Yew, Rain City Projects, 2014

24 Pictures of a Pilot (short play, full text), Manifesto Series v.2, edited by Steven Dietz, Rain City Projects, 2012 SHORT PLAYS DRAMATURGY & LITERARY MANAGEMENT Lavender 14/48: Nordo—Food Theatre Thunderdome ACT Theatre (Seattle) Cafe Nordo, August 2018 Script reader 2004 - 2006 The Editors Thought Experiments by Infinity Box Theatre, October 2016 Dramaturg March, 2005, Capitol Hill Arts Center, directed Juice and Fortune by Aimée Bruneau One-Minute Play Festival ACT Theatre, May 2014 2004 Women Playwrights Festival plays by Honour Molloy, Eisa Davis, Alfred Tanya Barfield & Rosanna Staffa 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival, Literary Assistant June 2013 June 2004, Seattle Repertory Theatre & Hedgebrook Writers Retreat A Fish and a Bear in Purgatory 14/48: The World’s Quickest Theatre Festival, The O’Connor Girls by Katie Forgette June 2013 Asst. Director & Dramaturg March 2004, Seattle Repertory Theatre, 14/48: Mixtape (Best-of Festival), July 2014 directed by Christine Sumption

24 Pictures of a Pilot by Live Girls! Theater, May 2008 2nd Asst. Director & Local Dramaturg February 2004, Seattle Repertory Theatre, BoxFest: Detroit, August 2013 directed by Tina Landau

Seattle Repertory Theatre COLLABORATIVE Artistic (casting) intern WORK 2003 - 2004 season

American Archipelago (co-writer) Pony World Theatre, July 2017

Rooms (co-writer/performer) EXITheatre, May 2006

AFFILIATIONS Seattle Repertory Theatre Writers Group, 2013 - 2015 cohort Dramatists Guild of America, member

EDUCATION BA, Drama , 2001