Ike Holter

Ike Holter
Born	1985 (age 38–39) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Occupation	Playwright
Education	DePaul University (BFA)

Ike Holter (born 1985) is an

Early life

Ike Holter was born in

Career

His play Hit the Wall was produced by The Inconvenience as part of

Los Angeles

at the LGBT Center that was nominated for many "Best of the Year" awards in LA.

In 2014, he wrote Exit Strategy for Jackalope Theater.

in addition to regional productions in Boston, Los Angeles, Houston, and other cities.

His later plays have included B-Side Studio (2013),^[7] Exit Strategy (2014),^[1] Sender (2016)^[8] The Light Fantastic (2018) and The Wolf at the End of the Block (2017).^[9] The Goodman premiered Lottery Day in the spring of 2019, the capstone to the seven-play "saga" about a fictional Chicago neighborhood called Rightlynd.

He served as a staff writer for the FX series produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Fosse/Verdon", writing "All I Care About is Love", the series 6th episode.^{[10][circular reference]} He is a resident playwright of Victory Gardens Theater.^[11]

In 2021, Holter is developing a TV miniseries about the 1983 election and tenure of Chicago mayor Harold Washington, the first African American to hold the office.^[12]

Awards

In 2017, Holter was one of eight winners of

In 2018, the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) selected Holter as one of six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2017, for his play The Wolf at the End of the Block.

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