Jill Holden

Actor

For New Phoenix Theatre-LA: Athena in Trojan Women; Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest; Dorine in NPT-LA’s 2021 and 2007 reading of Tartuffe, which she also directed. Peeky, an independent feature starring Jill will premiere in post-pandemic America. You witness her now (always on a phone) as the libido-crazed grandma on the web series “Practically Normal.”

Past work includes some theatre: The Actor’s Theatre Of Louisville, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Theatre by the Sea, The San Jose Repertory, Court Theatre, The Body Politic, Northlight, Steppenwolf, Pheasant Run, Victory Gardens, LATC, The Odyssey, The Fountain, The Met, Theatre Forty and Theatre 6470 (The Eclectic Theatre Company), and some TV: “Pretty Little Liars;” “Grey’s Anatomy;” “According to Jim;” “Ally McBeal,” “Seinfeld,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Judging Amy,” “Strong Medicine,” “Murphy Brown,” and the TV movie Lansky playing the Yiddish speaking mother of Richard Dreyfus.  You can rent her in Muffin Top, Fallen, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and The Hero and the Terror.

Her solo show, “Private Stories: Public Schools,” written with Meagen Fay, about substitute teaching in the LAUSD, ran for months to sold-out houses in LA. After 22 years teaching theatre in LAUSD Jill retired and is now ZOOM’ing classes as an adjunct in the theatre department of Cal Poly Pomona as well as Studio Teaching children on sets.

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