David A. Holcombe - Actor, Director, Producer

Reviews

"Géraldine Dulex and David A. Holcombe are perfectly bourgeois and attractively out of place as The Beautiful Couple...

Together, this brilliant ensemble manages the impossible"

-Venus Zarris, Chicago Stage Review (Highly Recommended)

"...lovely actors Geraldine Dulex and David A. Holcombe look sweetly into each other's eyes and kiss with a kind of demur passion, even when their fellow customers engage in all manner of mutual degradations. Dark and perverse is what these artists do best."

- Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune (***)

"A jaw-dropping production...This has got to be one of the most unabashedly vicious things I've ever seen on a stage. I loved it."

- Tony Adler, Chicago Reader (Reader Recommended)

“It’s a refreshing and provocative example of capital-T theater: politically aggressive, razor sharp and thoroughly entertaining.”

-Dan Jakes, Time Out Chicago (Highly Recommended)

“One thing you’ve got to say about Trap Door Theatre, that outpost of the European avant-garde: Its artists have the courage of their convictions."

-Hedy Weiss, The Suntimes (Recommended)

“OVERWEIGHT is chilling but uproarious, nauseating but irresistible… the superb cast more than lives up to the demands of the script.”

- Laura Kolb, Centerstage (Highly Recommended, Theater Pick)

"Moreover, it is beautiful, horrid, confusing, glorious theatre."

-Will Fink, Chicago Critic (Recommended)

"Peyankow uncages the talented ensemble”

-Katy Walsh, Chicago Theater Beat (***)

Praise for GGS

"We need more filmmakers willing to speak out about moral injustice and to get people’s thoughts stirred against being the couch-dependent lemmings we have become. Hooray for David Holcombe and his film GGS...this was clearly a labor of love by a very talented artist."

-Filmmonthly.com

Praise for Jib and the Big Still

"Under the direction of Michael Wagman, David Holcombe, Jaclyn Keough, and Warren Feagins effectively use extremes in physicality to contrast angst."

-Chicago Theater Blog

Praise for Shine Baby Shine

"And David Holcombe gives a very strong, funny, and at times poignant turn as our leading man, Scooter, who does not realize how funny his naivety can be."

-Filmmonthly.com

Praise for Minna

"The ensemble's passionate but precise performances are supported by imaginative set, costume, and sound design that immerse actors and audience alike in a vivid dream world."

-Chicago Reader

"The actors all give admirable, incredibly energetic individual performances-"

-Newcity Stage

"Yet all actors manage to channel this insanity into something real, something worth watching. No. More than worth watching—something great. This was art."

-Chicago Theater Blog

"The entire cast creates a compelling spectacle of dramatic lunacy."

-Chicago Stage Review

"...the prodigious spectacle [is] supplied by the ensemble of physical and verbally agile players.”

-Windy City

"I think the evening is ultimately memorable because Wiesner and her actors and creative team throw themselves firmly, fiercely, and committedly into the weirdness. Wiesner’s images, are memorable: the naked Cupid on a catwalk dropping the billowing sheet he is wearing onto the actors onstage below (as is usual at Trap Door, where everyone pairs acting in the play with something else, the actor playing Cupid, Dave Holcombe, is also the box-office person. Where else in this city, other than Trap Door Theater, can you have a guy cross your name off the reservations list and hand you a program one minute, and then show you his bare ass the next?)"

-From the Ledge

Praise for The Tearful Assassin

"I sat in my seat with goose bumps running up my arm. Stellar cast. Amazing production."

-edge Chicago

"As crisp and streamlined as the writing."

-Chicago Reader

Praise for Dork Side of the Moon

"This is a well-cast production, with zestful actors fitting into their roles nicely... good chemistry between actors Jeff Wilson and David Holcombe."

-dane101.com

"the pace is brisk due to frequent scene changes and lots of movement. Dork Side is anything but static; David Holcombe brings the right dash of childlike glee to the immature but good-natured Corey..."

-Isthmus

"Everyone in the cast gives energetic and amusing performances... the playful energy between David Holcombe, carefree and bold as Corey, and Jeff Wilson, who plays Scott with weariness and hope, is infectious."

-Wisconsin State Journal

Praise for Dr. Faustus

"Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus becomes a morbid sensory joyride with jarring interruptions in Broom Street Theater's new adaptation."

-The Onion

"...the cast reaches a collective peak before leaving the audience with a final tableau that’s just as creepy — and cool — as Lucifer could wish."

-The Isthmus

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