Founder of DDH Creates, Deja Holmes, is an Atlanta based actor, author, and teaching artist. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Theater and Communications from Georgia Southern University. Upon graduation, she began working with the Alliance Theatre as a teaching artist. She is also a harp and theater instructor for the local non profit, Artz for the Harp, that provides music and arts enrichment to students of all ages. As a performer, Deja has entertained in a variety of roles onstage and screen. When Deja is not teaching or performing, she is writing and developing new ways to make theater an interactive, enjoyable, and educational experience for all.  

In November 2022, she was awarded the Stripped Bare Arts Incubator Grant, where she wrote, directed, and co-produced a children's musical based on her children's book, Grams & Me. You may have recently seen her in Macbeth with Contemporary Classics Theater as Lady Macbeth. If not, you can catch her during Toddler Thursdays at the High Museum of Art for a new TVY (Theater for the Very Young) Show called Groove in the Galleries! Visit High.org for more info!