Travis Michael Holder

Travis was once referred to as a Renaissance man for the number of pies into which he has placed his pudgy fingers, but he insists the illusion is just an imaginative version of the dastardly game of survival: always passing Go, winning an occasional hotel on Boardwalk, but never collecting the fucking $200.
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Travis Michael Holder (above on the left, unfortunately for him) plays a leading role in the upcoming feature film he co-wrote based on his hit play Surprise, Surprise, now making the rounds of the international film festivals and scheduled to be released later this year. Surprise, Surprise originally debuted onstage to critical acclaim at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, California, featuring Holder opposite Gilligan’s Island rescuee Dawn Wells.

The Los Angeles Daily News called Surprise, Surprise:  "A cogent human drama with strong, likable characters…intelligent humor and a series of conflicts that present a discerning commentary about what people need from each other… Sensitive without being phony or maudlin, Surprise, Surprise scores first and foremost for what it’s about: respect, the need to belong and the incalculable importance of reaching out to other human beings in distress."

The feature film version is produced, co-adapted and directed by Surprise, Surprise original castmember Jerry Turner and stars Holder, former Miss USA Deborah Shelton (Dallas, Body Double), John Brotherton (above, right, Jared Banks on One Life to Live), Luke Eberl (Letters from Iwo Jima, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes), and Mary Jo Catlett (Diff'rent Strokes, SpongeBob's Mrs. Puff).

You can check out more information about Surprise, Surprise and view a trailer at www.seavuefilms.com; click on "In Production" and then "Trailer."
 

NEW ORLEANS, 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 Fountain Theatre's 2007 award-winning L.A. 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. Holder has appeared twice previously at TennFest, in 2003 playing Williams himself in Lament for the Moths and, in 2007, he joined Williams scholar Dr. Kenneth Holditch and a gaggle of celebrity readers for An Ode to Tennessee.

  
     
 

I was once told by a famous casting director at a major studio that my problem was that I could "look too many different ways." As long as I am still a resident of this silly planet involuntarily revolving around the sun, that's one critique of my work as an actor I'll never be able to comprehend.

  
 
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