Michael Hollinger

Michael Hollinger
Playwright, The Virgin Queen Entertains Her Fool

Michael Hollinger’s plays include Under the Skin, Opus, Ghost-Writer, Red Herring, Incorruptible and the musical TouchTones (with composer Robert Maggio), all of which premiered at Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company and have been produced around the U.S., in New York City, and abroad (London, Paris, Tokyo, Athens, Poland and Slovenia). Plays premiered elsewhere include: Mr. Dickens’ Hat at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre; Hope and Gravity at Pittsburgh’s City Theatre; Cyrano (co-adapted with Aaron Posner) at Washington’s Folger Theatre; Sing the Body Electric at Philadelphia’s Theatre Exile; and the musical A Wonderful Noise (co-authored with Vance Lehmkuhl) at Creede Repertory. Awards include an ATCA/Steinberg New Play Citation, two Edgerton Foundation New Play Awards, an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award, a Mid-Atlantic Emmy, four Barrymore Awards, and fellowships from the Independence Foundation and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Michael is a Professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a proud alumnus of New Dramatists.