Poets Theater
Holman has directed and/or produced a steady stream of plays during his career, most of them written by poets. These include:
- Ted Berrigan's “Clear the Range” at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church Theater, 1977
- “4 Plays by Edwin Denby” at the Eye and Ear Theater, March 1981
- Ed Friedman’s “The White Snake” at the Eye and Ear Theater, May 1982
- W. H. Auden’s “Paid on Both Sides”, at the Eye and Ear Theater, May 1983
- A series produced at St. Mark’s Church between 1988 and 1990 comprising Millicent Dillon’s “She Is In Tangiers: Life and Work of Jane Bowles”, Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “Mayakovsky, a Tragedy,” Tristan Tzara’s “The Gas Heart”, Antonin Artaud’s “Jet of Blood”, and Holman’s own collaboration with Bob Rosenthal, “The Cause of Gravity”/”The Whore of the Alpines”/”Bicentennial Suicide.”
- D. Zhonzinsky's “Stop at Nothing” at The Kitchen, 1992
- Pedro Pietri's “Eat Rocks” at New Dramatists NYC
- Ed Sanders's “A Night at the Rebel Café” at the Bowery Poetry Club, 2003
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