COLT COEUR
presents the world premiere of
DODI & DIANA
By Kareem Fahmy
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
Cast: Rosaline Elbay, Peter Mark Kendall
Trailer

"directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, for Colt Coeur, the intriguingly odd premise occasions a tense, engrossing, and astute study of the mysteries of a marriage; the playwright, Kareem Fahmy, demonstrates a particular skill at doling out insightful nuggets."
THE NEW YORKER

“intrinsically compelling”
THE NEW YORK TIMES

“exacting, unsentimental, ferociously truthful direction” … “Finely tuned performances” …“a needed corrective to a sexist fairytale” … “it will have you reaching for the popcorn”
THEATERMANIA

“The play brilliantly translates our stubborn search for meaning and happiness. The haunting auras of Dodi and Diana serve to incarnate a prophetic doom, to inscribe a symbolic filiation to ill-fated matches…” “Is there more to being a supporting role in someone else’s white story? Samira grapples with this and we feel through her frustration one experienced by Kareem Fahmy and so many artists of color who feel they remain primarily defined by their ethnic and racial backgrounds instead of their talent and human complexity.”
OBSERVER

It’s August 2022—exactly 25 years after the Car Accident that made the world stand still. A Wall Street banker and a Hollywood starlet, locked in the Hôtel Ritz Paris, unearth a strange connection to the star-crossed lovers. With their marriage at a crossroads, the couple’s steamy tête-à-têtes unravel into a simmering interrogation of sex, fame, and erasure. As lies multiply and past and present collide, can their love survive the exposure of their darkest secrets?

Oct 1-29 at HERE, NYC - Tickets start at $20.
Performances Tues-Sat at 8:30pm, Sundays at 4pm // ASL-interpreted show: Sunday, Oct 23 4pm.

Creative team:
Scenic Design: Alexander Woodward // Costumes: Dina El-Aziz
Lights: Eric Norbury // Sound: Hidenori Nakajo // Intimacy Director: Crista Marie Jackson
Dialect Coach: Barbara Rubin // Props by Jess Adams
Assistant Director: Marina Zurita // Dramaturgy by Kimberly Colburn
Alternate: Shaun Anthony

Produced by Colt Coeur, Rashad T Bailey, and Emily Caffery
Production Manager: Savanah Sanchez
Production Stage Manager: Elizabeth Allen // Assistant Stage Manager: Molly Foy

About the Artists:

Kareem Fahmy (playwright) is a Canadian-born playwright, director, and screenwriter of Egyptian descent. He received the 2022 Woodward/Newman Playwriting Award (for American Fast), a NYSCA/NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, the Janet Sloane Literature Residency at Yaddo, is a two-time finalist for the National Showcase of New Plays, and was named a Rising Leader of Color by TCG. Commissions: Artists Repertory Theatre, Colt Coeur, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan. As a TV writer, Kareem was part of the inaugural cohort of the WarnerMedia Access Writers Program. American Fast will receive a Rolling World Premiere at Artists Repertory Theatre, City Theatre, and InterAct Theatre. A Distinct Society will receive a productions at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Pioneer Theatre, and Writers Theatre. Other plays include Pareidolia, The In-Between, and an adaptation of the acclaimed novel The Yacoubian Building. Kareem’s plays have been seen at Atlantic Theatre Company, Denver Center, Northlight Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, New York Stage & Film, and more. Former Sundance Theatre Lab Fellow, Phil Killian Directing Fellow (OSF), and Old Globe Classical Directing Fellow. Co-founder/Chair of the Middle Eastern American Writers Lab. MFA (Theatre Directing), Columbia. www.kareemfahmy.com

Adrienne Campbell-Holt (director) is a NYC-based director and choreographer and the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. She is also the recipient of the 2018 Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award. Her most recent projects include the world premieres of Afterwords (Fifth Avenue Theatre) and Other World (Delaware Theatre Company). Other notable premieres include: East Coast premiere of Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector (Colt Coeur), We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber (City Theater, Pittsburgh), HATEF**K by Rehana Lew Mirza (WP/Colt Coeur), Joan by Stephen Belber (Colt Coeur, starring Johanna Day), Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck (Primary Stages, starring Tyne Daly & Tim Daly), Associate Director on Dear Evan Hansen (Original Broadway Company), Zürich by Amelia Roper (Colt Coeur at NYTW), Thirst by C.A. Johnson (Contemporary American Theater Festival), What We’re Up Against by Theresa Rebeck (WP Theater), Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur), and many more. Adrienne was a Time Warner/Women's Project Lab 2014-2016 Fellow, a recipient of the Bill Foeller Fellowship at Williamstown Theatre Festival, a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship, the EST/Sloan grant, an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist and Audrey Resident. She has developed work with La Jolla Playhouse, the Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick, WP Theater, Ojai Playwrights Conference, IAMA, New Georges, Playwrights' Center, Portland Center Stage, and the Ensemble Studio Theater. adriennecampbellholt.com

Rosaline Elbay (cast) Rosaline Elbay is an Egyptian actor, writer, and producer. Screen roles include “Amani” in Ramy for Hulu/A24 and “Sara” in Qabeel for Shahid/MBC; her upcoming roles include “Judy” in Kaleidoscope for Netflix and “Christine” in an untitled Hulu feature. Her training was at LAMDA, and her UK stage credits include Olivia in Twelfth Night (RSC OS), Helen in Machinal (OUDS/Edinburgh Festival), Tamar in Tamar (Arcola Theatre), Georgeanne in Five Women Wearing The Same Dress (Linbury Studio), and Sybil Vane in The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford Playhouse).

Peter Mark Kendall (cast) Peter Mark Kendall is an actor and musician based out of New York City. Theatre (selected): Broadway: Six Degrees of Separation. Off-Broadway: The Atlantic, LCT3, The New Group, Vineyard Theatre, Rattlestick, The Public/UTR, Joe’s Pub, Partial Comfort. Regional: Lake Lucille Chekhov, Bay Street, Baltimore Center Stage, Trinity Rep., Chautauqua. Film: Top Gun: Maverick, Entangled, Time Out of Mind, Louder Than Bombs, The Ticket (TriBeCa). Television (selected): Netflix’s “Kaleidoscope (upcoming)," “Strange Angel,” Sam Esmail’s “Act of Crime," “Outpost” (series regular); “Girls,” “The Americans,” “Chicago Med,” (recurring); “Awkwafina...from Queens;” “The Good Fight;” “The Leftovers." Education: M.F.A. in Acting, Brown/Trinity Rep. Founding member of the theatre collective The Commissary. He is in the duo-band Hickory; their second album will be released summer of 2022. He co-wrote, co-scored, and starred in the film CAPSULE with longtime collaborator Whitney White, which premiered at the Public in January 2021, as well as many film festivals internationally.

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Dodi & Diana is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.

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