Ike Holter
Ike Holter (born 1985) is an American playwright.[1] He won a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for drama in 2017.[2]
Born and raised in Minneapolis, Holter moved to Chicago to study theatre at DePaul University.[3]
His first play, S.L.O.P., was produced by Chicago's Jackalope Theatre in 2011. In 2012 his plays Vigilante, Servant and Hit the Wall were staged in Chicago; in 2013 Hit the Wall, about the Stonewall riots, became his first play to gain an off-Broadway run in New York City.[4] His later plays have included B-Side Studio (2013),[5] Exit Strategy (2014),[1] Sender (2016)[6] and The Wolf at the End of the Block (2017).[7]
Although openly gay, Holter has stated that he likes writing work beyond his own personal experience: "I am black and I am gay, but the minute that I only write work that is about being that—I don’t think that’s interesting. I like getting into the head of a white woman in her 30s. I like getting into the head of an Asian dude in his 20s."[8]
References
- ^ a b "Why Ike Holter Has No Choice But To Tell Chicago Stories". Playbill, April 30, 2016.
- ^ "Chicago playwright Ike Holter wins $165,000 literary prize". Chicago Tribune, March 1, 2017.
- ^ "Chicagoan of the Year in Theater: Ike Holter". Chicago Tribune, December 25, 2014.
- ^ "Hit the Wall, About Galvanizing Moment in Gay History, Opens Off-Broadway March 10". Playbill, March 10, 2013.
- ^ "Photo Flash: First Look at The Inconvenience and The New Colony's B-SIDE STUDIO World Premiere". Broadway World, September 20, 2013.
- ^ "Ike Holter's astonishing Sender brings a hipster back from the dead". Chicago Reader, April 8, 2016.
- ^ "'Wolf at the End of the Block': Ike Holter's crime story is about Chicago's mistrust". Chicago Tribune, February 14, 2017.
- ^ "Ike Holter: The Playwright". Chicago Reader.
- 1985 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
- African-American dramatists and playwrights
- American male dramatists and playwrights
- DePaul University alumni
- Gay writers
- LGBT writers from the United States
- LGBT African Americans
- LGBT dramatists and playwrights
- LGBT people from Minnesota
- Writers from Chicago
- Writers from Minneapolis
- 21st-century American male writers
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