doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Peter Holm

PETER HOLM

  (1965 - )
Nationality:    USA
email:    Click here to contact     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    n/a

Pete Holm's plays have been performed and read on stages across the U.S. and abroad. Holm has been a working playwright since 1992 when he debuted at the University of New Mexico's experimental Theatre Showcase. "the Gap" and "Three Stops" premiered in Boston and NewYork, and "Hootchgods" was co-produced by the musical group, aerosmith at their Lansdowne Playhouse in 1995. His work was acclaimed as "Club Theatre" by the press, in reference to how the plays attract producers and audiences that are contemporary and attuned to his themes of alienation and escape through other characters, spirituality, and substances. the spectrum of Holm's work reflects upon his prior experience as an alternative singer songwriter, script writer, and promoter; ranging from the large cast epic to small ensemble works that can be adapted to be performed on any size stage for any size audience, Holm's trademark. Holm established a production company presenting new plays in clubs, cafes, and their home Black Box studio. In 2007, Holm co-founded the Penbrook Players with Charles Draghi, a Theatre Company devoted to presenting new American plays that features strong voices of contemporary playwrights and authors, as well as establishing a Contest and Foundation for new American works on www.clubTheatreboston.com. His work also played at Colleges and Universities across the United States.

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

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

         Alienation Affects         Fiddlers of Inishbofin, The         Hootchgods         Man of Inniskeen's Green Journey         Permanent Designs (the Tattoo Play)         Three Stops         Vinnie By Vangogo (King Of Nothing)

Alienation Affects

Synopsis:
events surrounding the meeting of Orson Welles and Bertolt Brecht at the Boston Opera House in 1948, via Marlene Dietrich. the post-war years were difficult for the three legends when in Hollywood, where they first actually meet, but never realize it. then Brecht, who was idolized by Welles', attended Welles' debut of "Around the Word", an adaptation of "Around the World in eighty Days" with a Cole Porter score. Brecht and Welles hit it off instantly, and Welles agreed to direct and star in Brecht's "the Life and Times of Galileo" until Brecht flees the US after being called to the US House of Representatives to testify before McCarthy's UnAmerican Committee for his Communist views.

Notes:
Directed by Roseann Hogan

1st Produced:
The Box Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, Usa    11 Sep 1998

Organisations:
Nobody's Special Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Biography/ Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Fiddlers of Inishbofin, The

Synopsis:
A group of Session Fiddlers make their way to the secluded island of Inishbofin off the Galway coast of Ireland, but a tragic mishap ruins the weekend. When a Dublin psychoanalyst (FIONA) returns to the Island to seek the help of the fiddle-repairman-turned-organic farmer (LIAM), the unlikely pair spend enough time to actually get to know one another. they reunite with the other fiddlers, who notice a change of heart in both of them.

Notes:
Directed by Peter Holm. Music composed/arranged by Tommy McCarthy

1st Produced:
Bac Kroom At The Burren, Somerville, Massachusetts, Usa    13 Mar 2013

Organisations:
the Burren

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Romantic Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  6-10 (Musicians)

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Hootchgods

Synopsis:
Three misfits are guided by the "spirit" of their once tormenting Boss and mother from Chicago to the Navajo burial lands in the desert southwest. the three are tempted by exploitation and redemption as they are lost among nature and ancient ritual of the Navajo Nation.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Lansdowne Street Playhouse    06 Jul 1995

Organisations:
Back Home Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Man of Inniskeen's Green Journey

Synopsis:
A contemporary tale of an Irishman from the village of Inniskeen and his Longford wife in America who aid a fellow Irish woman to citizenship in the United States, as they do many others through his "House of Ireland", which also serves as an Irish cultural center for Americans, exposing them to traditional ballads and songs from Ireland, as well as the poems and music of fellow Inniskeenian, poet Patrick Kavanagh.

Notes:
Produced by Samantha edelheit. Directed by Peter Holm. Starring Brendan Crawley, Lindsay Garvey, Katie McDonnell, Richard McDevitt

1st Produced:
The Patrick Kavanagh Weekend Festival, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan, Ireland    01 Oct 2011

Organisations:
Club Theatre Boston

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  3-10 (Musicians)

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Permanent Designs (the Tattoo Play)

Synopsis:
An expatriate American taxidermist, (TONY), rents a "Tattoo Parlor" above a Furrier's (MIMI) Boutique in Amsterdam's Red Light District. As TONY falls behind in rent and fears deportation, MIMI convinces him to help her dress her windows with new "mannequins" to compete with the eye candy that surrounds her shop in the neighboring windows. She carefully selects American co-ed "back packers" to model her furs.

Notes:
Directed by Lindsay Garvey. Starring Michael Peluso, Abigail Bower, Aurora Robinson, Tim Hoover, Avery Barger, Jonathan Anderson, Phyllis Gordon

1st Produced:
American Repertory Theatre's Club Oberon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Usa    01 Jun 2011

Organisations:
Club Oberon

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy/Horror

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Three Stops

Synopsis:
An evening of One-Acts featuring the stories of an underground American playwright. In "Making the Stops", the writer (PeT) is abandoned by his girlfriend in a down-beaten Chicago hotel room until aided by a transvestite prostitute named FAYe to escape a gauntlet of psychos and thieves. In May Day", PeT and FAYe hide out at a Polish bar in the North Side of Chicago, where they are terrorized by a deranged former Polish soldier who forces PeT to marry his wife for citizenship. In "All the Brits In New York", FAYe attends a performance of "Stomp" in the east Village of New York with hopes of getting PeT some work, as PeT's girlfriend holds "Prince Edward" hostage in her Lower east Side Apartment.

Notes:
Directed by Jessica Beckwith. Starring Shawn O'Hagen, Darren Greene, and Kate Burnell

1st Produced:
Kraine theater
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    30 Apr 1995

Organisations:
the Kraine Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Vinnie By Vangogo (King Of Nothing)

Synopsis:
an expatriated American portrait painter is trapped in amsterdam. He is hunted by a terrorist cell, art thieves, and his muse who all want his paintings to be more valuable, post-mortem.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Callan Studio Theater, Salem State College    12 Sep 2003

Organisations:
Salem State College

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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

Booksellers:

Genre:
-

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page