Ike Holter

Ike Holter (born 1985) is an American playwright. He won a Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for drama in 2017.

Born and raised in Minneapolis, Holter moved to Chicago to study theatre at DePaul University.

His first play, S.L.O.P., was produced by Chicago's Jackalope Theatre in 2011. In 2012 his plays Vigilante, Servant and Hit the Wall were staged in Chicago; in 2013 Hit the Wall, about the Stonewall riots, became his first play to gain an off-Broadway run in New York City. His later plays have included B-Side Studio (2013), Exit Strategy (2014), Sender (2016) and The Wolf at the End of the Block (2017).

Although openly gay, Holter has stated that he likes writing work beyond his own personal experience: "I am black and I am gay, but the minute that I only write work that is about being that—I don’t think that’s interesting. I like getting into the head of a white woman in her 30s. I like getting into the head of an Asian dude in his 20s."