Holly Robinson

Holly is a Birmingham-born playwright, now based in London. Holly writes about relationships, repair and ethics with beautiful sensitivity, humour, and lightness of touch.

Her first play soft animals was written as part of the Soho Writers’ Lab programme, and opened at Soho Theatre in February 2019 to both critical and popular acclaim. Holly was subsequently nominated for the 2019 Stage Debut Awards, for Best Writer, with soft animals longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize and shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award.

Her adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's THE SECRET GARDEN with Anna Himali Howard opened at Regents Park Open Air Theatre in June 2024 to rave reviews. The Stage called it the "must-see show" of the summer and 'marvellous, wise and expertly updated.‘

Holly has been part of Hampstead Theatre's inaugural Inspire Group (2018/19), Soho Six (2020) and Hampstead's Writing the Bigger Picture and BBC London Voices. Holly is also making first steps into writing for screen; she is developing an original idea with Chapter One and a film adaptation of soft animals.

Other work includes small myth, a two-hander about mothers and their daughters, and the environmental crisis which the young generation have been left to fight, created with Eve Allin and Charlotte Fraser for an in-development showing at Vault Festival 2020; small, exploring an experimental medical trial, a generation unable to grow up, and the allure of maybe never having to, written for a cast of 19 for Oxford School of Drama, which opened at Soho Theatre in August 2019. and has been published by Nick Hern as part of their Multiplay Drama programme and has been performed by schools and colleges around the world; and Cinderella: The Ash Girl, an adaptation of Cinderella for young people with a cast of 26 which was commissioned by and first performed at Playbox Theatre in Warwick.