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JAKOB HOLDER (1978 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Gersh Agency, NY represented by Quinn M. Corbin |
Jakob Holder was born in 1978 and began writing plays twenty years later. His time studying playwriting with Edward Albee at the University of Houston has resulted in an ongoing mentorship. His plays have had productions and readings in Alaska, California, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Texas, Washington, and London. His first play, Bedtime Solos, won a new play award at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in 1998 and his second play, The Shoulder, went on to win the same award in 2000. He has been a finalist for the O'Neill Theatre Conference, the Princess Grace Award and the Humana Festival's Heideman Award. He has taught playwriting to children in Alaska, teenagers in Florida, and adults in Finland. A resident of New York City, he is a 2002 Dramatists Guild Fellow, a 2003 Lark Theatre Fellow, a 2006 Oriveden Opisto Resident Artist, and a member of Circle East Theatre Company and The Dramatists Guild.
Plays by Jakob Holder
And The Spirit Of Christmas Passed | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | 2007 Baby Jesus One Act Jubilee | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77090 | |||
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Genre: | 12 minutes comedy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee: Second Coming, a selection of world-premiere yuletide-themed plays | |||||
Synopsis: | It's a typical family Christmas: Mom's addressing cards, Connie's dreaming of snow, and Ryan's patiently awaiting Santa's arrival. Only, Connie's sweating like crazy, Ryan's locked and loaded, Mom won't listen to anyone but Dad, and Dad is completely two-dimensional. | |||||
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Bananafly / Reality TV / Words | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Monarch Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #77202 | |||
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Genre: | One Minute Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | varies | |||||
Notes: | These are three one minute plays, but as they were written specifically for this festival I chose to list them here as one. | |||||
Synopsis: | Bananafly: One man's entire life explored in one minute. Reality T.V.: Three contestants vie for their lives in a Rubik's Cube contest. Words: A man facing execution tries to find something more to say. | |||||
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Bedtime Solos | ||
| 1st Produced: | 08 Sep 2009 | |||||
Company: | Across The Pond Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #103493 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama 50 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A portrait of the fragility of human relationships. We see and hear a couple's intimate thoughts over the course of an apparently normal evening together, becoming privy to the deepest, darkest secrets of their subconscious minds. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Darktime In Skipland | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | The Brick Theater / Ontological-Hysteric Theater Tiny Theater! Fest | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67084 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In CB-radio lingo "Darktime" is night and "Skipland" is the special occurence in which, during optimal environmental conditions, a short wave signal can jump countless miles to reach a distant station. This is a short play about methods of communication, tightened proximities, fatal assumptions, hasty wishes attained and overdue wishes hung-up. It utilizes CB radios, cellphones, answering machines, shouting, barking, and a bullet to tell a wide story within a small space. | |||||
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Green Setting Sun | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #110998 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Running time: approx. 2:20, one intermission. | |||||
Synopsis: | Twenty years ago, Nick was confronted by a man who handed him a portrait he had just done of Nick twenty years later. Convinced this is somehow related to his belief that disaster follows him from every place he runs to every place he tries to hide, Nick braces himself for whatever might come during the four days and five nights he is about to spend dog-sitting and trying to escape the emptiness of his life. Immediately, the occupants of the apartment building descend upon him: Diane, an Irish woman who wishes she were simply American; her half-brother Nick, a simple American who wishes he was from Ireland, and has fashioned himself into a thick-brogued, slang-spewing gangster; Christopher, a twelve year old boy who predicts the end of the world is nigh but swears he's not a prophet; Omari, a blind, Rastafarian doctor who has waited his whole life to have his sight restored; and Alex, a man dying of bone-marrow cancer who thinks he knows the secret to life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Housebreaking | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #94457 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Running time: approx. 2 hours, one intermission. | |||||
Synopsis: | Chad's tired of his job, his family, his thirty-five-year-old life; Carmine is tired of life on the streets. Chad brings Carmine home-grooms him and trains him, and forgets that stray animals tend to be wild and cunning survivors. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Not An Island | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ohio Theatre, NYC | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Clubbed Thumb | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67197 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A one-minute paean to the beauty, rarity, and eminent breathable air, of the state of Alaska (as compared to the other 49 states of the USA.) | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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One Slip | ||
| 1st Produced: | Beyond Convention Festival V, Fullerton, CA | 02 Dec 2011 | ||||
Company: | Hunger Artists Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #136171 | |||
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Genre: | drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | A man cooking in his kitchen; the pot bursts into flames; he hurls the contents out his back door just as his friend arrives for dinner. Thankfully, time has decided to stop. But for how long, and what to do now? | |||||
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Repeat Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59938 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Running time: approx. 2 hours, one intermission. | |||||
Synopsis: | You find yourself in your mid 40s; your spouse has gotten there, too. Neither of you seem to remember the trip. You'd both call "Do over" if you really could. Your teenage son might have found the way. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shoulder, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL, USA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Pied Piper Players | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67883 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Running time: approx. 90 minutes, no intermission. This play was once known as Dirge (for a failed bris) | |||||
Synopsis: | Picture a flat tire, a binocular stand, and a stretch of mudflats at high tide. Two strangers meet at the side of a road in a play about the connections we make, the connections we hold onto, and the connections we're forced to let slip away. | |||||
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Sumatra Mandheling | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Hunger Artists Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72452 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A man sipping coffee on his way to work slips into dreaming, taking him from his spot on a New York City subway car to the coffee fields of Sumatra, Indonesia and back again; the calming voice of the conductor playing the part of his internal monologue and inquisitor. (15 minutes in length). | |||||
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