CAST AND CREATIVE

Hazel Holder has been an actor, singer and theatre maker for over thirty years and then retrained gaining her MA in Voice Studies at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Hazel has worked with pioneering companies such as Clod Ensemble as a Performing Medicine Associate Artist, The Mono Box, Clean Break, Marginal Voices (working with trafficked women), and Cast Women’s Charity – ‘helping to transform vulnerable women’s lives through creative holistic education’.

In 2023, Hazel became the National Theatre’s first Voice Associate.

Theatre credits include Best of Enemies, Cock, To Kill A Mockingbird, Get Up, Stand Up, The Glass Menagerie, Constellations, 2:22, Death of a Salesman, Caroline, or Change, Uncle Vanya, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Dreamgirls, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (West End);  Blues for an Alabama Sky, Rockets & Blue Lights, Death of England: Delroy, Death of England, Small Island, Nine Night, Barber Shop Chronicles, Pericles, Angels in America, Les Blancs, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, ear for eye, A Kind of People, Poet in Da Corner, Grimly Handsome, Pigs & Dogs, Cuttin’ It, Father Comes Home from the Wars (Royal Court); Mandela, Best of Enemies, Changing Destiny, Fairview, Death of a Salesman, The Convert, The Mountaintop, The Emperor, (Young Vic Theatre); The Dolls House Part II, Marys Seacole, Love and other Acts of Violence, (Donmar Warehouse); Jitney (Old Vic); Retrograde, The Wife of Willesden, Pass Over, The Son (The Kiln); Richard II (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse); Guys and Dolls, Girls (Talawa theatre Company at Soho Theatre and Royal Exchange); Caroline, or Change (Chichester Festival Theatre and Hampstead Theatre), Death of a Blackman (Hampstead Theatre); Eclipsed (The Gate); A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare North).

Film credits include: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Drift; Aisha (Letitia Wright); The Silent Twins; ear for eye; Death on the Nile (Letitia Wright); The Commuter (Letitia Wright).

TV credits include: Silo; The Anansi Boys; The Baby; Mood; The Power; Small Axe; In the Long Run.