Education
University of Oregon.
University of Oregon.
Born George William Holt III in San Francisco, Holt was a graduate of the University of Oregon. He began his career as an assistant stage manager at the Mineola Playhouse in Mineola, New York, where he worked until Harold Prince hired him to assistant stage manage the national tour of Cabaret. Holt and Prince later would collaborate on Company and Follies.
Holt"s first Broadway cr as a stage manager was the 1969 production of the Arthur Kopit play Indians.
His first producing cr was the short-lived 1974 revival of Gyspy starring Angela Lansbury. In 1983, Holt was a main contributor alongside Reverend Mead Miner Bailey to the New York-based Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Resource Center for helping youth suffering from Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The charity renamed Bailey House opened a major residence on Christopher Street to house endangered GLBT youth and families.
The residence was renamed Bailey-Holt House in recognition of the two benefactors Reverend Bailey and producer Fritz Holt. In addition to his Broadway projects, Holt staged the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome benefit Best of the Best at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1985.
Holt produced an Actors" Fund benefit commemorating the 100th birthday of George Abbott a month prior to his death from complications from pneumonia in Montclair, New Jersey at the age of 46.