Anita
Anita Hollander has worked throughout Europe and
America as an actress, singer, composer, lyricist, director, producer and
teacher. She has premiered new works of composers and playwrights at
Carnegie Hall, the Village Gate, Playwrights Horizons, and New York
Shakespeare Festival, where she sang original work of Philip Glass. She
received a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a
Musical for the Olney Theatre premiere of The Fifth Season and originated
the title role in John Belluso's award-winning play Gretty Good Time at the
Kennedy Center in Washington.
The White House presented her original one-woman musical Still Standing,
which has garnered critical praise and awards from ASCAP, Billboard, NY
Times and Back Stage Magazine, for writing as well as performance. Still
Standing has been produced Off-Broadway and throughout the country and is
available on CD (www.amazon.com). Recently, Anita premiered her new
one-woman musical, Walking To Canada, the NY Solo Play Lab, and the piece is
now published in a book of plays by women - Estrogenius 2003.
Anita's theatrical roles have included Emma
Goldman in Ragtime (Gateway Playhouse/NY), Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret
(Gretna Theatre/PA), Meg in Damn Yankees and Aunt Eller in Oklahoma
(Downtown Cabaret Theatre/CT), Golde in Fiddler On The Roof, Sister Hubert
in Nunsense, Blanche in Brighton Beach Memoirs (Surflight Theatre/NJ), the
title role in Shirley Valentine (Summerfun Theatre/NJ), and a 3-legged
Grizabella in CATS.
On TV, Anita has been a promo announcer for NBC Today Show and narrated the
acclaimed PBS series People In Motion featuring Itzak Perlman, Marlee Matlin
and John Hockenberry. She's also appeared on As The World Turns, OZ, The
Sopranos, Another World and All My Children (on which her husband and
daughter, Paul and Holland Hamilton, also appeared). BBC/London featured
Anita on their program From The Edge, and MTV featured her in their
Celebration of Diversity.
As a member of all three actors' unions, Anita serves as AFTRA National
Board member and East Coast National Chair of the AFTRA Performers with
Disabilities committee and has enlightened audiences in theatres and schools
about disability with Boston's Urban Improv, Joseph Chaikin's Body Songs at
the Public Theatre in NY, and Infinity Dance Theatre. She has toured as a
Celebrity Against Cancer for the American Cancer Society, and for VSA Arts
she appeared at the U.N. with Betty Buckley and Tom Brokaw. Anita also
appears in the newly-released documentary entitled Joseph Chaikin: A Life in
the Theatre.
John S. Wilson of the New York Times called Anita
"provocative, funny, moving, communicative and beautifully polished...She
has a wide range of vocal colors which she uses with dramatic sensitivity as
well as comic insight...All this plus a charming presence that flavors
everything she does."
Management: CTM Artists (212) 564-3536
Website:
www.anitahollander.com
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