## In a Lonely Place: The Team Behind Job on Max Wolf Friedlich’s The Holes The Holes began as an eighth-grade English assignment. Playwright Max Wolf Friedlich (Job) remembers his teacher taking him aside to compliment his work and encourage him to pursue writing. Then he told Friedlich he’d have to call his parents; the play was about barroom cruising. “I think, more than the masturbating,” the dryly funny Friedlich remembers, “the bigger concern for my teacher was, why do you know what cruising is?” Almost two decades later, as he prepares to stage a version of that first play at Wild…