Bergen County Players to Host Post-Show Q&A with Executive Director of the Edward F. Albee Foundation on January 16th

(ORADELL, NJ) — Bergen County Players (BCP) will host a special post-show talkback with Jakob Holder, Executive Director of the Edward F. Albee Foundation.  The Q&A with audience and cast members will follow the Friday, January 16, 2026 performance of Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Seascape.  The play features a recently retired couple who are debating the future when they are suddenly joined by a pair of human-sized lizards.

Holder was Edward Albee’s longest serving personal assistant, from 2001 to the playwright’s passing in 2016.  He has been Executive Director of the Edward F. Albee Foundation since 2013.  The Foundation was founded by Albee in 1967, following the financial success of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Albee’s first full-length play. Since that time, the Foundation has maintained “The Barn,” in Montauk, on Long Island, which exists to serve writers and visual artists by providing them time and space in which to work without disturbance.

A playwright himself, Holder was drawn to Albee partially because of his  straightforward views on the fundamental obligations all creative people have to support their peers “in a culture where commercial, critical and political pressures threaten to turn creativity into a commodity.”

Albee’s plays, he says, “served as a mirror to society rather than as a simple tonic or distraction.”  Despite the complexity of many of Albee’s plays, Holder notes that “Seascape is as straightforward as a play gets: two couples  oceanside, trying to make communication a meaningful endeavor.  That one of the couples is beginning to enjoy the fruits of retirement and the other is amphibious can be seen as entirely naturalistic; I mean, have you ever seen who goes to the beach?”

BCP is delighted to welcome Jakob Holder to its Talkback session, which is included in the ticket price.  Showtime on January  16th is 8:00pm.  Tickets are available for purchase. The theater is located at 298 Kinderkamack Road in Oradell, New Jersey.

The Bergen County Players, Inc. is a no-Equity, non-profit community theater company dedicated to presenting quality productions for the enrichment of the community.