Ensemble Bios

Eda Holmes

This season, Ms Eda Holmes directs Bernard Shaw’s Misalliance. Last season she directed Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and was the choreographer for the Jay Turvey/Paul Sportelli musical Maria Severa.

Eda’s selected credits for The Shaw include Serious Money, One Touch of Venus, In Good King Charles’s Golden Days, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, Tristan, the first new musical developed and produced at The Shaw; Love Among the Russians, the musical Floyd Collins, the cerebral thriller Blood Relations, Anatol for the Directors Project and Assistant Director for The Millionairess, The Man Who Came to Dinner and The Return of the Prodigal.

She recently directed the English language premiere of Michel Marc Bouchard’s The Madonna Painter at the Factory Theatre and will direct his new play Tom and the Coyote in the fall.

Eda’s other directing credits includes Faust (Calgary Opera); The Optimists, The Pessimist (Tarragon Theatre); Lucy (Canadian Stage Company); The Fall (Great Canadian Theatre Company); for Urjo (choreography), 12 Solo Project (Toronto Dance Theatre); Iphigenia 2.0 (National Theatre School of Canada); Helen’s Necklace, Alice’s Affair (Tarragon Theatre); Trout Stanley and The Gwendolyn Poems (Factory Theatre). Laius (George Brown Theatre School); the premiere production of the new musical The Miracle Man (Ryerson Theatre School).

Other theatre highlights include Little Mercy’s First Murder (Tarragon Theatre/Shaw Festival co-production), winner of seven Dora Awards; Music for Contortionist (Tarragon Theatre/Shaw Festival co-production); Pina Bausch: a tribute (Harbourfront World Leaders Festival); Standing Female Nude (Factory Theatre Studio Café); Side by Side by Sondheim (Canadian Stage Company); dramaturgy for Romeo and Juliet (choreographer Victoria Morgan, Cincinnati Balle); and The Tale of Genji (assistant director/choreographer, Opera Theatre of St Louis). Eda was also a script contributor and assistant choreographer for the Grammy-nominated film Satie and Suzanne.

Prior to becoming a director, Eda was a soloist with San Francisco Ballet, Dutch National Ballet and William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.