A-lan Holt '07 has recently been selected as one of 10 young playwrights from across the country to become a member of The Public Theater's Emerging Writer's Group. Sponsored by Time Warner, this New York-based institution targets playwrights early in their careers and offers the necessary resources, support and mentorship for their artisitic development. Holt is the youngest playwright in the group's history to receive this honor.
While an undergrad at Stanford, Holt received national and critical acclaim for 8ball, an original play she penned about the crack cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles in the 1980s. In the spring of 2011, 8ball received first place at the James Baldwin New Play Festival at UC San Diego.