Heather Holmes
Heather is a performer, writer, and teaching artist from TX.
She works with DSP Grant Management and Operational Support, and is a lead facilitator for DSP residencies and workshops.
She has worked for the literary journal GULF COAST, and created, written, devised and performed original works internationally, in NYC, and regionally in the U.S. As a teaching artist, Heather has worked on various projects with young children, teens, college students, and adults, including: speech & theater workshops, movement workshops, teaching artist in residence, and a very special experience directing and devising in French and Wolof with developmentally challenged students in Dakar, Senegal.
Heather attended Spelman College and the University of Houston, and holds a BA in English Literature/Creative Writing, with a minor in film studies. MFA, The New School.
She’s a Hemispheric Institute's EMERGENYC Fellow, and Naked Angels Theater Company's Issues Project Lab Fellow. Current works in development include: a strange and beautiful performance project about dreams; a photography/performance installation following “¿Ruth?” based in NYC, the American South, and Tromsø, Norway; and some music stuff.
Heather is a traveler and storyteller, an avid listener, and hopes to learn to dance like no one's watching.