About

Molly Rosa Houlahan is a queer director, producer, and theatremaker. Molly is the Associate Producing Director at People’s Light. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife and their tiny dog Arlo.

DIRECTOR CREDITS
Upcoming: Hurricane Diane by Madeleine George at People’s Light in the spring of 2024. Molly’s most recent directing credits include Play House by Alexa Derman at Leeds Theatre, Mr Burns: A Post Electric Play by Anne Washburn at the Pell Chafee Performance Center in fall 2022, I’ll Be In My Hanukkah Palace by Alexa Derman at 2022 Ant Fest at Ars Nova. Collective Rage by Jen Silverman at the Pell Chafee Performance Center in the spring of 2022, The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare in a touring Brown/Trinity production in the fall of 2021, The Skriker by Caryl Churchill at the Pell Chaffee Performing Arts Center in the spring of 2021, her original play The Gospel of the Marys at the Furnace Festival the summer of 2019, In Search of Maria Theresa by Maria Barrata at the Women’s Cycle at the Cell Theatre the summer of 2019, and the successful run of R+J: A Genderqueer/Female Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet as a coproduction between Access Theater and Hypokrit Theatre Company in the fall of 2018. Her original musical Scorched was featured as part of the Araca Project in 2016. Her directing work has been featured in FringeNYC, TinyRhino Short Play Festival, Hypokrit’s Tamasha at Playwrights Horizons, Castillo Theatre, and The Habitat as a part of NYTW's Jonathan Larson Lab. Molly has been a Directing Fellow at Berkeley Rep, Playwrights Horizons, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Manhattan Theatre Club.

ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR CREDITS
At Berkeley Rep, Molly assisted Daniel Sullivan on Macbeth starring Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards”) and Conleth Hill (“Game of Thrones”), Mary Zimmerman, Sean Graney, Les Waters, and Tony Taccone on Latin History for Morons starring John Leguizamo that went to Broadway in 2017. Molly assistant directed for Kate Whoriskey on the Pulitzer Prize Winning Sweat by Lynn Nottage at the Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Arena Stage. Sweat went on to a Tony-nominated Broadway run in 2017. She assistant directed for Les Waters on For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday by Sarah Ruhl at Playwrights Horizons and Berkeley Rep, Rebecca Taichman on A Face In The Crowd reading by Elvis Costello and Sarah Ruhl at The Public, and Kate Whoriskey on Songs For A New World by Jason Robert Brown at Encores! at New York City Center. She most recently Associate Directed for Anne Kauffman on Fire In My Mouth by Julia Wolfe at the New York Philharmonic and Lynne Meadow on The Perplexed by Richard Greenberg at Manhattan Theatre Club.

OTHER CREDITS
From a producing administrative standpoint, Molly has worked with The Public in the Producing Department and at Steppenwolf in the Artistic Department. Through this work, she has worked in the producing capacity alongside artists such as Suzan-Lori Parks and David Byrne. She has assisted artists such as Sarah Jones (Sell/Buy/Date) and Mira Nair ("Monsoon Wedding"). As a dramaturg, Molly has worked with artists such as Lynn Nottage, Richard Greenberg, Jacqueline Pereda, and Roz Esposito amongst others. As a a playwright, Molly’s work has been featured at the Araca Project and Furnace Festival amongst others. As an actor, Molly worked with Eve Ensler and Jo Bonney on I Am An Emotional Creature at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the Vassar PowerHouse Festival, and at the Donna Karen Zen Foundation. Molly served as the Associate Artistic Director at Hypokrit Theatre Company in New York City from 2018 until 2020.

EDUCATION
Molly earned her Master of Fine Arts from Brown University/Trinity Rep. Molly won the Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Performing and Creative Arts upon graduating Yale University.