Eda Holmes

 
Eda Holmes began her stage career as a ballet dancer. She was a soloist with San Francisco Ballet, Dutch National Ballet and William Forsythe's Frankfurt Ballet until sidelined by a knee injury. She has since become one of the busiest and most accomplished theatre directors in Canada and since 2009 is the Associate Director at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.

Born in: 

Texas, USA

Based out of: 

Toronto, Canada

Training: 

National Theatre School of Canada

Selected Theatre Credits: For the Shaw Festival Theatre (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada): One Touch of Venus by Kurt Weill and S.J. Perelman; Serious Money by Caryl Churchill; Bernard Shaw's In Good King Charles's Golden Days: A True History That Never Happened; The Little Foxes; Blood Relations; Tristan, the first new musical developed and produced at the Shaw; Love Among the Russians; and the musical Floyd Collins. 

Laius (George Brown Theatre School, Toronto); The Miracle Man; Serious Money  (Ryerson University Theatre School, Toronto); The Optimists and The Pessimists (Theatre Junction and Tarragon Theatre, Toronto); Lucy (Canadian Stage, Toronto); The Fall (Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa); Iphigenia 2.0 (National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal); Helen's Necklace and Alice's Affair (Tarragon Theatre, Toronto); Trout Stanley and The Gwendolyn Poems (Factory Theatre, Toronto), The Madonna Painter (Factory Theatre, Toronto); The Last Five Years (Grand Theatre, London); Little Mercy's First Murder (Tarragon Theatre, Toronto); Music for Contortionist (Tarragon Theatre/Shaw Festival co-production); Pina Bausch: a tribute (Harbourfront World Leaders Festival); Standing Female Nude (Factory Theatre Studio Café, Toronto); Side By Side By Sondheim (Canadian Stage, Toronto).

Selected Film/TV Credits: Dramaturge for a dance film "Satie and Suzanne" with Veronica Tennant and Nicholas Pennell and artists from the Cirque du soleil

Awards/Honours: Dora Award for Directing Little Mercy's First Murder

Other Interesting Tidbits:  Currently working with choreographer Victoria Morgan and the Cincinnati ballet as librettist and dramaturge on an original full length ballet based on the legend of King Arthur. Eda Holmes is the Associate Director of Shaw Festival one of the largest repertory theatre companies in North America.