Welcome
Rashad T Bailey, Katie Brook, Dustin Chinn,
Kate Douglas, Rachel Herron, Niara Mae,
Sarah Sander, and Corey Umlauf!
Now in its 6th year, our Residency continues to provide an intimate group of playwrights, directors, producers & designers with the invaluable resources of community, space to work, and a stipend. Artistic Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt meets with Residents on a quarterly basis with an emphasis on forging authentic creative collaborations and amplifying these artists' voices. We also invite luminaries from the field to join us for conversations.
After issuing an Open Call this past July, Colt Coeur received over 80 applications from interested artists. Our Artistic Programming Committee reviewed materials and selected 16 Finalists. Interviews took place in early September and the Residents were announced at our Benefit Bash, September 22nd, 2022.
L to R: Kate Douglas, Sarah Sander, Niara Mae, Rachel Herron, Dustin Chinn, Rashad T Bailey.
Not pictured: Katie Brook, Corey Umlauf
Interested in learning more about our Residents?
Read on below…
Rashad T. Bailey (he/him) is a Brooklyn based artist & producer. He has worked for such organizations as the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Live Arts, The Play Company, National New Play Network and Kashif, a film incubator and production house, developing BIPOC, LGBTQIA and disabled filmmakers. Bailey produced the documentary film, La ENA (2019). He is Associate Producer of the documentary film, BEBA (2021). Bailey was an associate on the 2021/22 Broadway remount Slave Play. Bailey is Associate Producer of Hart Island, which debuted March, 2022. Bailey is Co-Producer of the Off-Broadway revival of Kinky Boots which began its production in July, 2022. Bailey is a member of the inaugural Theater Producers of Color (TPOC) cohort.
Katie Brook (she/her) is an experimental theater director and producer. The innovative theatrical work she creates with her ensemble, Televiolet, has been presented at venues in New York City and beyond, including The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, The Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and Boom Arts. Recent work: ISLANDER (HERE Arts Center); The MS Phoenix Rising (with Trish Harnetiaux, Playwrights Horizons), Dr. Ride’s American Beach House (by Liza Birkenmeier, Ars Nova), and most recently, a site-specific production of The Cherry Orchard (Quantum Theater). Notable producing credits include Strange Window (The Builders Association, BAM) and O, Earth (by Casey Llewellyn, The Foundry Theatre). Katie received her MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University, and her BFA in Drama from New York University. She is originally from Toronto, Canada.
Dustin Chinn (he/him) is a Seattle native who’s developed work with Ars Nova’s Play Group, Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep Summer Residency Lab, A.C.T.’s New Strands Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the University of Washington via a Mellon Creative Fellowship, UC Berkeley, SPACE on Ryder Farm, UMass at Amherst New Play Lab and Vampire Cowboys. His comedy COLONIALISM IS TERRIBLE, BUT PHO IS DELICIOUS will start its rolling world premiere with Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre this November.
Kate Douglas (she/her) is a writer, composer and performer. Recent work includes The Apiary (O’Neill Playwrights Conference, 2022), Against Women & Music! (with Grace McLean, The Civilians), Wonderland (Finalist, Jane Chambers Excellence in Feminist Playwriting Award), and The Ninth Hour (with Shayfer James, The Met Cloisters). Her work has been developed at NY Stage & Film, New Victory Theater, the Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows Program, SPACE on Ryder Farm and Rhinebeck Musicals. This year, she was a finalist for the Princess Grace Award and a semi-finalist for Page 73’s Fellowship. As a complement to her artistic practice, an Ilan Lev Method practitioner and a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist. She is currently working towards her Horticulture Certificate in Sustainable Garden Design with NYBG.
Rachel Herron is a proud, Black, Baltimore native and multidisciplinary writer who attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. After receiving her BFA in Drama, Rachel self-produced and starred in her first original play, SHE CAME TO TEA. Rachel then worked as a freelance writer for three years before pivoting to scripted development. She was named a finalist CBS Writers Mentoring Program (2019) and the Disney TV writing program (2021). She was awarded the audience favorite in Fresh Fruit Festival's Monologue Project. In July 2022, Rachel's play RED RED WINE premiered at the Obie award-winning Fire This Time Festival (Kraine Theater).
Niara Mae (she/her) is an early career playwright and writer currently based in Brooklyn. She recently graduated from The New School for Drama, where she produced and directed readings for two of her full length plays. In her work currently, she’s negotiating with form and structure, writing plays that are both intuitive and grounded. Her pursuit has yielded work with rhythmic language and compelling characters, creating as full an experience as possible as she strives to make the internal external. She was a recent member of Playground-NY’s Writer’s Pool, and has worked on audio plays for The Language of Us Podcast. She was a Monthly Contributor to Mixed Mag’s Theater and Film Section, and was recently published by The Independent. You can often find her rushing to a bookstore, chai latte in hand.
Sarah Sander’s work has been developed/produced by BAPF, Columbia University, |the claque|, DC Arts Center, Florida Studio Theatre, Kennedy Center, Lark, NYSF, Page 73, The Public Theater, Project Y, and Raven Theater. She’s an alumnus of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group, Dramatist Guild Fellowship and P73’s Interstate 73. Residencies: MacDowell, Millay, SPACE at Ryder Farm and Stillwright. Finalist: ATL’s Heideman Award, Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission, Ingram Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship, Juilliard, Leah Ryan Prize, P73’s Fellowship, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, and Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Nominations: Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, NTC’s Stavis Award and Williamstown's Weissberger Award. MFA: University of Iowa.
Corey Umlauf (she/her) is a scenic designer and miniature artist. Her design work has been presented by: Ars Nova, Columbia University, JACK, Clubbed Thumb, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Emerson Stage, and on film by Vundabar. Corey is a resident scenic designer at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s National Playwrights Conference. Select Associate Design: Topdog Underdog (Golden Theatre, upcoming), A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre), Goddess (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), To My Girls (2ST), A Case for the Existence of God (Signature Theater Center). Proud Member, USA-829.