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Yvette Heyliger
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YVETTE HEYLIGER, author of Autobiography of A Homegirl (ISBN 0-595-20556-9), is a grant-winning playwright, a director, a teaching artist, and a producing artist.  She is founder and partner with her twin sister, Yvonne Farrow, in Twinbiz, a production company which writes, directs and produces original works for stage, television and film.  Heyliger’s acclaimed play, What Would Jesus Do?, was produced at the Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn, NY in the Fall of 2009.  Prior to that, it was premiered in Los Angeles in recognition of World AIDS Day 2006 and the 25th anniversary of HIV/AIDS in America and then went on to be presented in the National Black Theatre Festival 2007 in Winston-Salem, NC.  Heyliger has written her first children’s play, Fire In the Mountain, an adaptation of an Ethiopian folktale which was performed at Awassa Children’s Center, an orphanage in Awassa, Ethiopia.  Heyliger’s play, Hillary and Monica: The Winter of Her Discontent, was presented in the Midtown International Theatre Festival 2008, NY and prior to that it had its New England debut at Gloucester Stage Co., MA.  Heyliger was selected to attend Hedgebrook, a women writer's colony in Washington State, where she wrote Operation Lysistrata! She now serves on Hedgebrook’s inaugural Alumnae Leadership Council. Excerpts of Heyliger’s play, Autobiography of A Homegirl, are published in Smith and Kraus' The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2003 and The Best Stage Scenes 2003. Heyliger is also a contributing editor for Black Masks, a black theatre magazine. Heyliger has been a guest artist/guest speaker at colleges and universities regarding her work as a playwright and her plays have been produced in NY, LA, MA, as well as the National Black Theatre Festival and in local New York theatre festivals.  

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Resume of this published playwright, director, actor, and producing artist who incorporates these skills into work as a teaching artist; guest artist/guest speaker at colleges and universities.
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Grants awarded to Heyliger include: two New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist grants, two Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grants, and two Harlem Arts Alliance re-grants, among others.  Twice a graduate of New York University with her Masters of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees, she recently received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing—Playwriting from Queens College, NY.  She was a member of the first graduating class of Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC.  Heyliger works as a teaching artist in the public and private schools of New York City and is on the roster of: City Lights Youth Theatre, Young Playwrights, Inc., American Place Theatre and New Jersey Performing Arts Center.  Heyliger has many professional, associate and artistic community memberships including: Dramatists Guild, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, AEA, SAG, AFTRA, League of Professional Theatre Women, Theatre Resources Unlimited (TRU), AUDELCO and Harlem Arts Alliance.  She received a merit scholarship from TRU to participate in Commercial Theatre Institute’s 14-week commercial theatre training with the late, Frederick B. Vogel.  More recently she was selected for CTI’s first Creative Intensive led by Jed Bernstein.  Heyliger’s fifteen minutes of fame as a former actress was playing “Aunt Sara,” on the NBC hit, Cosby Show.
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