Daniel Holzman

Daniel Holzman

Daniel Holzman is a writer and director (among other things) born and raised in San Francisco. He studied at NYU’s Playwrights Horizons Studio and has developed work at The Tank, Dixon Place, Fresh Ground Pepper's BRB Retreat, Playwrights Horizons Downtown, CounterPulse, and The Bush Theatre. Daniel is also a founding member of Birthday Soup, a theater company that uses his mom's collage-like approach...
Daniel Holzman is a writer and director (among other things) born and raised in San Francisco. He studied at NYU’s Playwrights Horizons Studio and has developed work at The Tank, Dixon Place, Fresh Ground Pepper's BRB Retreat, Playwrights Horizons Downtown, CounterPulse, and The Bush Theatre. Daniel is also a founding member of Birthday Soup, a theater company that uses his mom's collage-like approach to cooking as an artistic practice.


Plays

  • BERLINDIA! by Daniel Holzman
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6–100
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: techno, mixed families + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, opera
    Keyword: techno, mixed families, ketamine, Jewish
    Burger and her little brother (named Fuck) embark on an epic quest to find their mother, whose recent obsession with techno has taken her to an infinite nightclub city of dreams.
  • Me and Who by Daniel Holzman
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: princesses, Lower East Side + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, experimental, period, tragedy
    Keyword: princesses, Lower East Side, sopranos, vibe shift
    Princess Cookie and Princess Vera live an 8th floor walkup apartment at the end of history.
  • O L I V E S by Daniel Holzman
    Cast: 
    4–6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: bodybuilding, murder + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, horror
    Keyword: bodybuilding, murder, Satan, band breakup
    A band broke up (years ago). A bodybuilder is in our house (and he won't leave). Nothing is going how we wanted it to go (and we can't stop eating olives).
  • middle school play by Daniel Holzman
    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: middle school, time travel + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, melodrama, science fiction
    Keyword: middle school, time travel, freelancing, lord of the rings
    The year is 2012. The end of the Mayan calendar approaches. Where did our teacher go? How long has she been in the bathroom? How far away is the future? Oh shit, here it is
  • Adelia (or, the Nose Play) by Daniel Holzman
    Cast: 
    8–12
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 1 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, fable/folktale
    A noseless woman searches for love across the Sea
  • Alifornia by Daniel Holzman
    Cast: 
    1–3
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    Genre: comedy, experimental
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    Keyword: one person show
    Genre: comedy, experimental
    Keyword: one person show
    Al drives the length of California in search of the last pair of jeans that will fit.
    A one person show.
  • The Death of Dieter Von Strauss by Daniel Holzman
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 5 more
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    Keyword: failed actors, aerobics + 1 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, fable/folktale, movement/physical, musical, pageant, tragedy
    Keyword: failed actors, aerobics, daddy issues
    Former (disgraced) broadway ensemble dancer Dieter Von Strauss welcomes you to his 6 week aerobics seminar: Movement Speaks Louder Than Words!

    If everybody wants you
    Why isn’t anybody callin’?
    -Laura Branigan, “Gloria”
  • There Will Always Be A Moon Over Marin by Daniel Holzman
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, horror
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    Keyword: gentrification, San Francisco
    Genre: drama, horror
    Keyword: gentrification, San Francisco
    Christine loves San Francisco
    Christine loves her realtor.
    Christine loves her new house.
    If only she could forget what she did to buy it.