NEW ORLEANS, LA,
March / April 2008:
LA Drama Critics Circle Award-winning actors Travis Michael Holder and Karen Kondazian performed to sold out houses in A Witch and a Bitch at Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre in N'awlins' French Quarter as part of the 22nd annual Tennessee Williams / New Orleans Literary Frestival, reprising their performances in the Los Angeles Fountain Theatre's 2007 award-winning production of Williams’ The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore.

Each performance was followed by a question-and-answer discussion about Holder and Kondazian's personal experiences knowing and working with Williams, and trying to dissect what made Milk Train, one of Tennessee’s most difficult and troubled “later” plays, such an infamous disaster on Broadway in 1963. Among the participants and attendees were Terrence McNally, Rex Reed, Stephanie Zimabalist, Jeremy Lawrence, Tony-winning producer-director Gregory Mosher, LA director Jenny Sullivan and premier LA playwright Tom Jacobson, Williams scholar David Kaplan of the Provincetown Williams Festival, Erma Duricko of New York City's celebrated Blue Roses Theatre Company, and 80-year-old Broadway legend Marion Seldes, who appeared in the original Milk Train opposite Tallulah Bankhead, Tab Hunter and Ruth Ford, and graciously offered much insight and humor discussing what made that production close after six performances.

Holder has appeared twice previously at the annual TennFest, first playing Williams himself in another LA transplant, Lament for the Moths, culled from the great writer's mesmerizing but obscure poetry, and in 2007 he joined Williams scholar Dr. Kenneth Holditch and a gaggle of celebrity readers for An Ode to Tennessee.