home page	New Yorker Finds Hope, Love As Volunteer For H.O.R.S.E. Rescue Publication: Horse News Date: February 2006 Excerpt: click here for full article "New Yorker Finds Hope, Love As Volunteer For H.O.R.S.E. Rescue" The Moon of the Caribbees Publication: The New Yorker Date: February 19 & 26, 2001 Excerpt: click here for full article "A very early (1917), somewhat peculiar, and remarkably offensive play by Eugene O'Neill which nonetheless makes a good evening of theatre. " O'Neill, under sail, rides the winds of 'Caribbees' Publication: Irish Echo Date: February 14-20, 2001 Excerpt: click here for full article "… director Simon Hammerstein has evoked, in the limited downstairs space at the Flea Theater, a mesmerizing approximation of everything O'Neill had in mind … The production's opening image is so startling and so unexpected that to describe it would only destroy its breathtaking impact … In an astonishingly well-balanced and deftly directed cast, James Beecher is a commanding First Mate, while Gordon Holmes is a credible and sympathetic Yank" Charles Bukowski's South of No North - Adapted and directed by Leo Farley and Jonathan Powers. With ensemble cast. Publication: Time Out New York Date: November 30 - December 7, 2000 Excerpt: click here for full article "Seamlessly and imaginatively directed, the protean cast portrays both the people who inspired Bukowski and their fictional counterparts … At one point, after a wrestler (Gordon Holmes) has his balls kicked by his angry girlfriend (Moira MacDonald) - one of the scarce exhibitions of female retaliation - he turns to his creator, the typing Bukowski, and asks, "Why did you do that? You almost killed me!" This sort of interaction, which risks becoming too self-consciously conceptual, actually comes off here without a hitch … you have a treat in store for you." Happy Hour in Hell: Charles Bukowski's South of No North (Stories of the Buried Life) Publication: NYROCK Date: September 2000 Excerpt: click here for full article "'Hit Man,' for example, is a particularly chilling vignette that depicts normal-looking businessman Bill (Charles Willey) hiring Ronnie (Gordon Holmes), a beer-swilling killer … As mentioned earlier, Ewin, Corcoran and Holmes are standouts … The acting is admirable, the stories, like the best of Bukowski's writing, are both heartbreaking and hell raising." FINDING THE BEATS IN BRECHT, IN A DIFFERENT TIME AND PLACE Publication: The New York Times Date: August 12, 2000 Excerpt: click here for full article "A cast of 14 actors play more than 30 roles, and there's really not a weak performance among them ... some especially noteworthy actors include Gordon Holmes as an end-of-the-world religious fanatic and wino" TAKE ME OUT TO THE BAAL GAME Publication: The Village Voice Date: August 9 - 15, 2000 Excerpt: click here for full article "Creep—and bisexual—though Brecht may have been, Baal has much more to offer even those who are a little rusty on their German classicism, at least when a director grabs hold with both fists, as Jim Simpson has done. Setting the play in the late-1940s U.S. and providing almost nonstop accompaniment by a first-rate jazz trio, Simpson and company have produced a lean, 90-minute descent into a particularly American postwar mania that has gorged itself into oblivion." 4/0 Film Shorts Date: June 24, 1999 Excerpt: click here for full article "Third Meridian (pictured) is a compact morality play: An outer-space scout must decide whether his conscience will allow him to inform his superiors about what he has discovered on a small planet. Hundreds were turned away when this collection played " An Alien INVASION Publication: The Prince George Journal Date: June, 1999 Excerpt: click here for full article "'This movie is a drama that just happens to take place in space,' said Gordon Holmes, who plays Taggart. 'My character is sort of a tough guy with a tender spot in his heart. Unfortunately, I turn out to be the bad guy in the end' … Holmes has made appearances on NBC's 'Law and Order' and in Walt Disney's feature film 'Angels in the Outfield'." MD/DC Cyber-Drama is Festival Bound Publication: Press Release Date: April 2, 1998 Excerpt: click here for full article "Film Professionals under 30 unite sharing their experience gained from working on feature films such as Will Smith's Enemy of the State, Contact, Die Hard 3, and Absolute Power to launch their own cyber-drama entitled Third Meridian … CAST: Taggart, Gordon W. Holmes' performance credits include appearances on NBC's Law & Order and Walt Disney's Angels in the Outfield. Holmes, brings a strong west and east-coast theatre background to the production as well as experience in film and stand-up comedy … Actors were cast after auditions in Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y." San Francisco Scene - Distant Fires Publication: DRAMA-LOGUE, Hollywood, CA Date: April 7, 1994 Excerpt: click here for full article "Distant Fires is expertly directed in San Francisco by Bill English and performed by a first-rate ensemble ... Lester C. Jones as a black peacemaker, a sort of moderator during the conflicts, as well as Stuart Elwyn Hall (the drinking malingerer) and Gordon Holmes as Angel, a sensitive well-meaning kid caught up in the inflammatory quarrels, all provide vivid and distinctly different characterizations ... Distant Fires is an emotion-charged drama, exuberantly performed by an excellent group of actors under tightly controlled direction." Racial tension on the (high) rise - 'Distant Fires' is a towering inferno of emotion Publication: San Francisco Examiner Date: March 23, 1994 Excerpt: click here for full article "Heelan's 1992 drama of racial conflict on the job opened Friday at Actors Theatre of San Francisco in one of the strongest productions the company has ever mounted ... Angel is a white student, played with giggling and appropriately super-serious naivete by Gordon Holmes." Lots of laughs in backstage comedy Publication: The San Mateo Times Date: August 25, 1993 Excerpt: click here for full article "Gordon Holmes is a clown, in the best sense of the word, as Billy. Seemingly ready to burst apart with tension, Holmes careens through the play, neck muscles bulging, eyes popping and intensity climbing. His enthusiasm for a love scene rehearsal (and its eventual climax) is the stuff of community theater legends."