Monique “MoMo” Holt

AEA Member
Monique Holt

(she/her)

Queen, Posthumus’s Mother, and Ensemble in The Cymbeline Project
Director of Artistic Sign Language for The Cymbeline Project

Past OSF Productions: Worker Chen/Ensemble, Snow in Midsummer; Lady Montague/Apothecary, Romeo and Juliet. DASL [Director of Artistic Sign Language], Cymbeline; ASL Translator (text to notated signs), and Actors’ Sign Coach (2013/2014/2017).

Professor for Theatre and Dance Program/School of Arts and Humanities, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC. Teaches Visual Gestural Communication, Sign Language Translation for Theatre, and Theatre Practicum. Director: The Christians by Lucas Hnath for Phamaly Theatre, Welcome to Hell by Janet Preus for Transformation Theatre, Teenage Dick by Mike Lew for Woolly Mammoth/Open Circle Theatre, Playwright-in-Residence: Please UNtranslate Me for IRT Theater, New York, NY (2019–Present). Librettist for RE:OPERA, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (2020–Present). Board member: VOCA (Visionaries of the Creative Arts), Washington, DC—the only Deaf BIPOC Theatre Company; National Deaf Translators, Washington, DC. Education: MFA, Theatre, Towson University; BFA, Acting, New York University.