Press kit, Anita Hollander · Press kit, official use
Anita Hollander has worked throughout Europe, Asia, Russia and America as an actress, singer, composer, lyricist, director, producer, and teacher. She has premiered new works of composers and playwrights at Carnegie Hall, 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 the award-winning play Gretty Good Time at the Kennedy Center in Washington. As a two-time cancer survivor, Anita has negotiated over half her 50-year performing career on one leg, using her disability not only to enhance her roles, but to enlighten the world about disability and promote greater visibility and employment for performers with disabilities. The Kennedy Center presented her original one-woman musical Still Standing: A Musical Survival Guide for Life's Catastrophes, which won the Audience Award at the United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC and has garnered critical praise and awards from the New York Times, ASCAP, Billboard, and Back Stage Magazine, for writing as well as performance. Still Standing won the Audience Award at the United Solo Festival Off-Broadway, and has been presented at The White House, Off-Broadway, Disney World, and as far away as Seoul, South Korea (CD on iTunes). In 2021 Roundabout Theatre's Reverb Play Festival presented Anita's play Lebensunwerten Leben: Life Unworthy of Life, and her second original solo musical, Spectacular Falls, premiered Off-Broadway and has toured the country. Yet another solo musical, Walking to Canada, appears in the play collection Estrogenius 2003. She has also composed new works for The Village Temple (NYC) as musical director and Children's Choir director.
