Heather Dowling

Heather Dowling (Writer & Performer) is an award-winning actress and writer who had pretended to want a "real job" since the age of 14. Recently, Heather premiered her one-woman show, FERTILE at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival, winning the Producers' Encore Award, and earning a nomination for Best Solo Performance out of 101 shows. Heather's first solo show, UNEMPLOYED. FINALLY, also won the Producers' Encore Award and Best Solo Performance nomination at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2015. In that show, she brought 39 characters to life and made it all the way to 42nd Street in New York City for United Solo, the largest solo theatre festival in the world.

It was during the two year run of UNEMPLOYED. FINALLY. that FERTILE started percolating. The moment people responded to most from UNEMPLOYED, was Dowling's personal story of challenges with fertility. Driven by the heartfelt response, she decided to share her story more completely and interviewed dozens of women and men to discover, uncover and encourage a conversation about procreation as an empowered choice.

Dowling is currently also in the process of shooting a comedy series, DOWN THE MIDDLE, with her writing and acting partner, Michelle Lee Barton. The show, which has been in development for nearly three years, could be summed up as the Odd Couple + Dharma & Greg + Women Working in 2019. The finished 6 episode series will be released later this year.