(l/r) Harry Santiago as Mr. Sir and Jeremy Dozier as Stanley Yelnats
Written by Louis Sachar
Directed by Rod Caspers
Performances: November 10-12, 16-18 at 8:00 p.m., 2006
November 18-19 at 2:00 p.m., 2006
B. Iden Payne Theatre
Tickets: $16 adults, $13 UT faculty & staff, $10 students available at the TPA Ticket Office, online at www.utpac.org or by phone at 477-6060. Get Tickets
Media and Resources:
- Cast List
- Costume Renderings by Jan McCauley
- Light Plot by Megan Reilly
- Director Information
- Playwright Information
- Press and Reviews
- Scene Renderings by Szu-Feng Chen
- Synopsis
Synopsis: Stanley Yelnats of the cursed Yelnats family is sent to Camp Green Lake, a boys' detention center in the Texas desert where the boys spend all day digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. Stanley digs up tales about his family, finds a good friend, and learns to like himself. A journey of mystery, danger and profound discovery, people of all ages will enjoy and identify with this life-affirming story.
Holes opens on November 10 and runs through November 19 in UT's B. Iden Payne Theatre in the Winship Drama Building. Tickets are $16 adults/$10 students.
A graduate of Illinois State University, Rod earned an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin. He has taught and directed at the University of Northern Iowa, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Texas. While at UT Austin he also served as the Artistic Director for the Office of University Relations, creating and producing large-scale university events. Rod conducts directing workshops throughout the nation and serves as a guest artist/instructor for the Facing History and Ourselves Program in Switzerland and the Czech Republic. While living in New York, Rod served as Associate Director for GreenPlays, creating and directing several new musicals and cabarets. He has directed over seventy productions including Honk!, A Man of No Importance, The Secret Garden, The Laramie Project, Big River, Merrily We Roll Along, Tintypes, Working, Lies and Legends, Shirley Valentine, Once on This Island, In the Heart of America, Fiddler On the Roof, Close Ties, Carousel, The Rivers and Ravines, Really Rosie and Ordinary People. Rod produced and directed the UT Texas Performing Arts' 20th Anniversary Gala starring Tommy Tune, Linda Eder and The Broadway Tenors as well as the We're Texas Milestone Celebration with Judy Collins. Recently Rod stage managed the Rockettes' Radio City Christmas Spectacular for four years with his colleague, Chan Chandler. Currently he serves as the Director of Creative Services for The University of Texas System.
I was born in East Meadow, New York on March 20, 1954 and lived there until third grade. My dad worked on the 78th floor of the Empire State Building, and maybe that somehow inspired Wayside School, who knows? When I was nine years old, we moved to Tustin California. At that time, there were orange groves all around, and the local kids would often divide up into teams and have orange fights. The "ammo" hung from the trees, although the best ones were the gushy, rotten ones on the ground. Now most of the orange trees are gone, replaced with fast food restaurants, and big box stores. For more information visit http://www.louissachar.com/Bio.htm
- 11/9/06 DT Weekend: "Holes" author, Austinite assists with students' stage adaptation
- 11/10/06 KUT report: Digging "Holes" at the B. Iden Payne Theatre
- Philip Olson as X-Ray
- Joel Henderson as Magnet
- TJ Sharp as Zigzag
- Chance Propps as Zero
- Jeremy Dozier as Stanley Yelnats
- Harry Santiago as Mr. Sir
- Mathieu Worsham as Mr. Pendanski
- Julia Lorenz as The Warden
- Matthew Satterfield as Elya
- Leslie Horne as Madame Zeroni
- Dan Jones as Igor Barkov
- Neil Ames as Myra's Father
- Anna Garrett as Myra
- Ben May as Sheriff
- Carly Bannister as Mrs. Collingswood
- Jenny Anderson as Kate Barlow
- Fred Jones as Trout Walker
- Philip Smith as Sam
- Katy Rawson as Linda
- Annabel Stephan as Ms. Morengo
- Whitney Zangarine as Attorney General
- Molly Searcy as Zero's Mother
- Eric Vera as Stanley's Father
- Dan Jones as Police Officer
- Luke McClory as Police Officer
- Emma Lawrence as Judge
- Amanda Cayo as Stanley's Mother
- Rane Laymance as Stanley the First
- Mitchell Metcalfe and others from above as Townspeople
