“Year of the Goat” was developed with the support of Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group. Over 20 years, the group has worked with over 40 writers, whose work has been presented at theaters worldwide, on television and on film, and been recognized by the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Awards, and other New York and regional theater awards.
SYNOPSIS
“Year of the Goat” is an Afro-surrealist satire about Quincy Delacourt, a star professional basketball player who shocks the sports world by announcing his retirement and disappearing. A year later, after a series of profane and oracular tweets, Quincy reemerges to play for The Valkyries, a struggling franchise in desperate need of his talent. As negotiations proceed, the mysterious circumstances surrounding Quincy's disappearance are revealed, blurring truth and delusion, ecstasy and conspiracy, the mundane and the mythic.
“Year of the Goat” received its first reading at 59E59 Theaters with the following cast:
Quincy - Mister Fitzgerald
Bobby - Jason O’Connell
Cedric - Ray Anthony Thomas
Kerry - Shannon Tyo
Stage Directions - Arielle Zaytsev
Eric Holmes - Playwright
Terrence Mosley - Director
Olivia Tymon - Stage Manager
Erin Daley - Artistic Director
Cayla Quinn - Line Producer
Available now on Audible Inc.
PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY
A mother-daughter relationship faces a harrowing test in Eric Micha Holmes’ masterfully crafted thriller Rapture Season. When Mia (Kerry Warren) mysteriously disappears from her college campus, her mother Joyce (Lili Taylor) fears the worst — and a warning from Mia’s ex-boyfriend reveals she may have left the country to join a cult. Joyce impulsively launches a cross-continental trip to rescue her, gradually learning more about the seductive cult leader (Peter Francis James) via audio tapes her daughter left behind. Rapture Season is a truly engrossing and hypnotic experience, offering a bracing examination of race, identity, radical ideology, and the resilience of familial bonds.
CAST
JOYCE: Lili Taylor
MIA: Kerry Warren
DAZA: Peter Francis James
PRODUCTION TEAM
Directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian
Sound design by Alex Trajano
Produced by Emilia LaPenta
Casting by Chelsea Adams
Vocal Coach: Cherie Corinne Rice
Associate Producer: Phaedra Scott
Script Supervisor: Kayla Stokes
Remote Engineering: Nick Sjostrom /Clean Cuts
Edited by Reel Audio books
Mastered by Audible Studios
Executive Producer Kate Navin and Emilia LaPenta
Special Thanks to Space at Ryder Farm, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Playwrights Workshop Montréal.
Blurring fact and fiction, Mondo Tragic is an adventure comedy of ideas that deconstructs race, media, and radical transformation.
Developed and produced by The National Black Theatre, it follows a naive bi-racial narrator who becomes obsessed with Rachel Dolezal—the former director of the Spokane Chapter of the NAACP—who was publicly shamed for claiming to be Black when she was born white. When he reads in Rachel’s memoir that she was enamored with exotic pictures of Africans in National Geographic as a child, he’s reminded of a racist “mondo” movie from his childhood.
Inspired, he attempts to make a mondo-documentary about Rachel. But before the project can begin, a grotesque turn of events finds our narrator at the center of an investigation led by two fumbling detectives who suspect he’s an accomplice to a “hate crime.” In response, the narrator launches his own investigation, taking him on a quest up the Nile river to pursue a myth—a myth that might not only reveal what happened to Rachel but the ancient origins of race itself.
“Mondo Tragic signifies feelings and energies that we at the Jungle, and certainly many in the world, are grappling with today - discomfort with the flood of disturbing media we can’t seem to stop ourselves from looking at, deep questioning about our varied and individual racial, cultural, and political identities, and a restless readiness to engage with ourselves and one another more honestly than we have ever dared before.” —Christina Baldwin, AD of Jungle Theatre
The National Black Theater, Harlem, NY.
Directed by Miranda Haymon
Lighting design by Cha See
Set design by Emmie Finckel
Composed by Omar Zubair
Featuring Ben Chase, Christopher Reed Brown, Jesse Reid, and Chrystal Stone
Jungle Theater, Minneapolis, MN.
Written and performed by Eric Micha Holmes
Music and sound design by Omar Zubair
Produced by Alison Ruth
Full-length:
2 men
Inspired by the months before John Hinckley's attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, "Falls For Jodie" is an imagined account of his strange partnership with a concierge at a hotel next to the Yale campus where John attempts to woo the affections of his child-star crush.
“[...] a story of a growing obsession, and the dark undertones that can develop if pushed in the right, or wrong, direction.” — “Falls For Jodie’: Obsession’s Reign,” by Bridget LeRoy of East Hampton Star
“Each scene is crafted to capture linchpin moments in the young men’s interactions. The outcome of each interaction is never assured and the audience must wait for each resolution as the tension continues to build. “ — “Watching the Descent: “Falls for Jodie” Traces an Imagined Path Walked by Two,” by Pat Rogers of Hamptons ArtHub
How did the artists of the Harlem Renaissance respond to the historic events that shaped their time? And how are contemporary creatives dealing with the issues of the present moment in their own work? These questions lie at the heart of the Apollo commission of the New Black Fest, which has engaged 18 contemporary playwrights to explore these themes in 10-minute plays.
Over the course of three staged readings, each playwright will premiere their new work, dramatically performed by an exciting cast of actors and readers. Participating playwrights include James Ijames, Eric Micha Holmes, Dahlak Brathwaite, Donja Love, Dennis A. Allen II, Christina Anderson, and Mfoniso Udofia. This event will be taking place on the Apollo’s Soundstage.
Part of Apollo New Works, the Apollo’s first major commissioning initiative launched in 2020.
Leadership support for the Apollo New Works initiative is provided by the Ford Foundation. The New Black Fest is funded by the HBO Fund for Theater, The Black Seed, and is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Commissioning support for The New Black Fest is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Written by Eric Micha Holmes
Directed by Terrence I Mosley
Director’s Note
One of the most striking aspects of YouTube is the homepage. YouTube offers you a cache of videos it knows you’re interested in based on your prior visits. In a way, the homepage functions as a mirror of the mind. I think at one point or another we’ve all had conflict with the mirror. I hope EVERYTHING YOU LOVE helps you view YouTube and what it reflects back to you a little differently.
Featuring members of the Junior Acting Company of SUNY-Purchase BFA Conservatory
(Listed in order of appearance)
X- Nate Entz
CASSIE- Corinne McLoughlin
PIPER- Raphael M. Berglas
PANACEA TOUCH - Tatiana Graves-Kochuthara
SKILLZA- Tatiyana Alvarez
JILLIAN MEE - Nikol Tsvetanova
Creative Team
Scenic Designer- Jordan Santisteban
Costume Designer- Ali Caruso
Lighting Designer- Kevin McNulty
Sound Designer- Nickolas Lambert
Production Stage Manager- Kristine DeAngelis
Technical Director- Connor McGlone
Production Team
Assistant Scenic Designer- Tifarah Melman
Assistant Lighting Designers- Dwayne Fralin & Peter Lopez
Charge Artist- Charli Burkhardt
Stage Manager- Kai Liebenstein
Sound Board Operator- Lucas Kery
Animation Designer- Chen-Wei Liao
Featured Video Editor- Anna White
Isadora Programmer- Massimiliano DiMartino
Internet Engineer- Otto Martinian
Virtual Theatre Audio- Nickolas Lambert
Virtual Theatre Assistant- Charli Burkhardt
Production Management- Maya Whitaker & Briana Padgett
"A slave buries a stone-carved small idol that reminds him of his African history. Forward a hundred plus years when an African American workman uncovers it on the grounds of a former plantation. We are in the world of Pornplay, where the mansion has become a location for a thriving porn business, and the inhabitants grapple viciously for the power and money the films bring in. Betrayal, infidelity and brutality thrive in Eric Micha Holmes’s dark and bitterly funny story of survival of the fittest in this new America."—Stephen Willem, from MCC Theaters' Playlab series.
Links:
Full-length:
1 black woman, 2 black men, 1 white woman, 1 young white woman, 1 white man, 1 young white man
The Huffington Post, March 18th, 2010:
"I did my best to cut his throat. But the next moment he jumped on me and grabbed me. He hates Pakistan and he hates Pakistanis then why did he marry a Pakistani girl? He made me do so many things that are against Islam. I did all that just to make him happy. But inside me there was a war."
—Rabia Sarwar, from her statement to the police after being arrested in Staten Island for attempting to murder her husband, Seikh Naseem.
"There was no gun pointed at her head to do these things."
—Seikh Naseem, Rabia's husband
Full-length:
1 Pakistani woman, 1 Pakistani man, 2 white women, 2 white men
Written by Eric Micha Holmes
Produced by Judith Kampfner
Commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on August 6th, 2018
“Care Inc.” is a radio drama that follows Nina Perez—a customer service rep for a health insurance corporation. When she receives a routine call from Shirley, a cancer patient, Nina soon discovers that Shirley is more than just another customer pleading for coverage.
Lives, ethics, and business converge as characters struggle to survive in this behind-the-scenes look at America’s health insurance industry.
LISTEN HERE: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bd7zhr
Strange and divergent lives intersect when a night club in New York City hosts a motivational sales workshop for real estate agents.
Full-length:
4 Women, 2 men
A companion piece to "Falls For Jodie," "Jackets In May" explores the events that lead to the torture and murder of 19 year old Black Panther, Alex Rackley, whose body was found in the Coginchaug River in Connecticut, 1969.
Full-length:
2 black women, 2 black men
"In light of the police shootings of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and John Crawford III in Beavercreek, Ohio, among others, The New Black Fest commissioned 7 emerging black playwrights to write 10-15 monologues that explore their feelings about the well-being of black in a culture of institutional profiling."—Keith Josef Adkins, Artistic Director of New Black Fest
Links:
Purchase copy here from Samuel French
Interview With Eric Micha Holmes
