Holly is a Sydney-based performer, writer, administrator, music teacher, composer and director, and founder/ Artistic Director of independent theatre company Streamed Shakespeare. She currently works as a private music teacher and essay coach, and as a stage and screen pianist, director and actor. After gaining Honours degrees and the University Medal from UNSW in Music and Arts (Theatre Studies), she worked as a casual lecturer and composed the short musical The Gipsy Dancer while completing her PhD in opera performance analysis, graduating in 2016. In 2018 she directed new musical Haunted (Genesian Theatre) and new opera-cabaret Millennial Opera (Sydney Fringe Festival). Holly has composed music for Streamed Shakespeare (Twelfth Night) and has directed three shows for the company: The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Winter’s Tale, as well as The Merry Widow, a co-production private workshop with fellow new Sydney production company, The Salon for Dramatic Arts, led by Joseph Restubog. Read Holly’s past reviews of opera and musical theatre at www.hollychampion.com.
It was a rainy, cold Saturday afternoon in Sydney on June 19th, with a local Covid cluster once again threatening to destroy the school holidays. The throng of suitably be-masked audience members eagerly milled into the City Recital Hall for …
This concert was the second-last performance in a program that has successfully toured from Melbourne to Sydney and will finally be performed in Canberra on Thursday 10th June, at Yarralumla’s Albert Hall. The Sydney iteration of Burden of Truth…
