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Jakob Holder

JAKOB HOLDER

  (1978 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Michael Finkle

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.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Jakob Holder's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         And the Spirit Of Christmas Passed         Bananafly / Reality Tv / Words         Bedtime Solos         Darktime In Skipland         Green Setting Sun         Housebreaking         Not An Island         One Slip         Repeat Play         Shoulder, The         Sumatra Mandheling         Whitehorse

And the Spirit Of Christmas Passed

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.

Notes:
part of the Baby Jesus One-act Jubilee: Second Coming, A selection of world-premiere yuletide-themed plays

1st Produced:

Organisations:
2007 Baby Jesus One act Jubilee

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
12 minutes comedy Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bananafly / Reality Tv / Words

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.

Notes:
these Are three one minute plays, but As they were written specifically for this festival I chose to list them here As one.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Monarch Theatre Company

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Music:
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Genre:
One Minute Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  varies

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Bedtime Solos

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.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
across the Pond Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama 50 min One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Darktime In Skipland

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.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
the Brick Theater / Ontological-Hysteric Theater Tiny Theater! Fest

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Green Setting Sun

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.

Notes:
Running time: Approx. 2:20, one intermission.

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Organisations:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Housebreaking

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.

Notes:
Running time: Approx. 2 hours, one intermission.

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2012   978-0822226659

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Not An Island

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.)

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NYC    2007

Organisations:
Clubbed Thumb

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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One Slip

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?

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Beyond Convention Festival V, Fullerton, Ca    02 Dec 2011

Organisations:
Hunger artists Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Repeat Play

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.

Notes:
Running time: Approx. 2 hours, one intermission.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Shoulder, The

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.

Notes:
Running time: Approx. 90 minutes, no intermission. This play was once known As Dirge (for A failed bris)

1st Produced:
Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, Fl, Usa    2005

Organisations:
Pied Piper Players

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sumatra Mandheling

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).

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    2007

Organisations:
Hunger artists Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama One act

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Whitehorse

Synopsis:
Suddenly one night Haven leaves home. He treks thousands of miles into the Canadian wilderness. He builds himself a cabin. Eight years later Hunter his twin brother turns up

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Great Plains Theatre Conference    2006

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
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Parts:
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