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Imagine being completely surrounded by grasshoppers, surviving a blizzard or confronting a pack of wolves. Laura Ingalls Wilder captured these scenes and more in her popular series of books based on her own family’s adventures during the Westward Expansion. In her portrayal of Laura, Holly reveals how an author combines imagination and personal experience to create compelling stories. Laura emerges as someone much like her own characters—strong, courageous and resourceful.

Holly Stevenson

Actress, storyteller, teacher, writer, and singer Holly Stevenson is well-known for her expressiveness, energy, versatility, and humor. Her one-woman performances have delighted thousands of Atlanta schoolchildren over the past 20 years.

Holly also performs for adults and has appeared at many local theatres: Agatha's - A Taste of Mystery, The Jewish Theatre of the South, Synchronicity Performance Group, Horizon Theatre, Stage Door Players and the Theatrical Outfit. She has commercial, film, print and voice-over credits on her resume.

She received her Theatre degree from the University of Victoria in Canada and studied clowning with master clown teachers Philippe Gaulier and Sue Morrison in Toronto.

For the past 11 summers, she has been a teacher/director with the Alliance Theatre Summer Drama Day Camp.

Holly is a teacher and continuing student of the Alexander Technique, a method of combining awareness and efficiency of movement. She maintains a private practice and is a faculty member in the Dance Program at Emory University.