Holly Harmon

Holly Harmon is a playwright, composer, lyricist, director and teacher who loves a secluded forest and the center of Times Square in equal measure. Her musicals include Pop! Goes The Bubble (GSL Fringe 2017), Empty Chairs (Dramatists Guild/ASCAP Songwriters Showcase, NYC 2018; Fertile Ground 2019; reading at Broadway Rose 2019; virtual reading with The Dramatists Guild 2021), Tale Of A Girl (Part of Go Play Outside, Applause Books, 2022), Happily Never After: A Trio Of Musical Fairytale Monologues (Fertile Ground 2026), and her latest written with Lolly Ward, Cessair: The Birth Of Ireland (Fertile Ground 2024; reading at ART 2025; JAW 2026), among others. She is a member of LineStorm Playwrights, Maestra Music, ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild. One day she plans to fashion herself a gown made entirely of moss.

Lolly Ward

Lolly Ward is thrilled to be collaborating with composer-lyricist Holly Harmon and sharing their mythical musical in JAW this year. Her plays investigate family, chess, physics, income inequality, inheritance, and performance art. Her short plays have been published in multiple Best of anthologies. As a member of The Actors’ Gang in Los Angeles, she originated roles in Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando, toured nationally and internationally, and acted in the stage and film versions of Tim Robbins’ Embedded at the Public Theater. She has served as a dramaturg and judge for the Mach 33 festival of new science-driven plays and won the Max K. Lerner Playwriting Fellowship. Lolly is the cofounder and director of LineStorm Playwrights, with whom she edited a collection of plays for Applause Books titled Go Play Outside. Read more at linestormplaywrights.com and on the New Play Exchange.