Holly Twyford is a Washington, D.C.-based American stage actress and
director. She is a ten-time nominee and a four-time winner of the
Helen Hayes Award.Twyford grew up in Great Falls, Virginia. She
attended the School of Theatre Arts at Boston University's School of
Theatre Arts before returning to the D.C. area to pursue acting.
Before her theatre career was established, she worked as a bartender
and in the costume department of the renowned Arena Stage, where she
would later star.Twyford has appeared in over thirty productions for
organizations including Arena Stage, the Folger Shakespeare Library,
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Source Theatre, Woolly
Mammoth Theatre Company, [[Theatre J, Olney Theatre, Round House
Theatre and the now-defunct Consenting Adults Theater Company, where
she earned her first Helen Hayes Award nomination in . She commonly
collaborates with director Joe Banno on offbeat productions of
Shakespeare plays, including a version of Hamlet at the Folger in
which Twyford, along with three others, portrayed the protagonist as a
fractured personality.Twyford's film and television appearances
include Out of Season, Pecker, Falling to Peaces and a episode of
Homicide: Life on the Street.
director. She is a ten-time nominee and a four-time winner of the
Helen Hayes Award.Twyford grew up in Great Falls, Virginia. She
attended the School of Theatre Arts at Boston University's School of
Theatre Arts before returning to the D.C. area to pursue acting.
Before her theatre career was established, she worked as a bartender
and in the costume department of the renowned Arena Stage, where she
would later star.Twyford has appeared in over thirty productions for
organizations including Arena Stage, the Folger Shakespeare Library,
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Source Theatre, Woolly
Mammoth Theatre Company, [[Theatre J, Olney Theatre, Round House
Theatre and the now-defunct Consenting Adults Theater Company, where
she earned her first Helen Hayes Award nomination in . She commonly
collaborates with director Joe Banno on offbeat productions of
Shakespeare plays, including a version of Hamlet at the Folger in
which Twyford, along with three others, portrayed the protagonist as a
fractured personality.Twyford's film and television appearances
include Out of Season, Pecker, Falling to Peaces and a episode of
Homicide: Life on the Street.
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