Holly Adams A professional performer, playwright, mask maker, and teaching artist for the past 25 years, Holly Adams' work as an artist in residence for schools and universities links academic and arts curricula, and centers on arts-based academic curriculum. Holly taught in Connecticut's "Fame School" before moving to Tompkins County and has been an artist in residence for over 14 years of NYSCA's arts programs. She has given professional development workshops in conjunction with NYS Alliance for Arts Education, NYS Council on the Arts, the Community Arts Partnership, NYS Theatre Education Association, and various theater companies. Holly is a graduate of the Dell 'Arte School of Physical Theater, and holds a Masters degree in Theatre, Education, and Social Change from Empire State College. Holly's favorite performances include: Further Adventures of Clown at the Hangar Theatre, Third Man in The Baltimore Waltz, Bird Legends with Kakeru at Cornell, VOICES/lives with co-creator and performer Pete Rush, The Oral Tradition at the West End Theatre in NYC, Richard III in Kynge's Games, and Jen in Gossip at the Kitchen Theatre, all of the animals in My Father's Dragon, Alanna for Full-Cast Audiobooks by Tamora Pierce, as well as eight years with commedia dell'arte companies.
E.C. Barrett is a speculative fiction writer, freelance journalist, content editor and creative writing instructor. After teaching writing at Binghamton University for five years she moved to Brooktondale to homestead and focus on her fiction writing and journalism. In 2015, her reporting received first place in police, crime and courts coverage from the New York Press Association and in 2016 she was short-listed for the Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Short Story Award in Science Fiction/Fantasy. Alongside her partner, Barrett built a house in the woods where she writes, gardens and spends too much time watching the crows outside her window.
|