Fall Benefit & Season Launch

Join us for an intimate evening at a stunning DUMBO Loft as we launch our 9th season!

Monday, October 15th 7pm 
Drinks & Nosh 
Live music 
Raffle & Auction at 8:30pm

We'll announce 2 World Premiere productions, as well as introduce our 2018-2019 CoCo Resident Playwrights & Directors!

Limited advance tickets available here.

RAFFLE TICKETS are ALSO available for advance purchase!
Advance Raffle tickets are a great deal at:
1 for $10, 3 for $25, 8 for $50 or 20 for $100. 

 
[At the event we will sell all raffle tickets as follows: 2 for $20, 6 for $50 or 15 for $100.]

Click here to purchase raffle tickets - you will pick up your pre-purchased raffle tickets at the door. (If you purchased advance raffle tickets and will not be attending - you may specify how you'd like to allocate your tickets..)

Preview of select Raffle, Live & Silent Auction goodies:

Raffle  (you choose where you'd like to place your tickets):

• 2 orchestra tickets to DEAR EVAN HANSEN on Broadway + a backstage tour

• 2 orchestra tickets to HAMILTON on Broadway or on tour 

• Gleason's Gym 3-month membership

• 2 tickets to Days of Rage by Steven Levenson at 2ST theater

Live Auction

• 2 orchestra tickets to DEAR EVAN HANSEN on Broadway + a backstage tour

• 2 orchestra tickets to HAMILTON on Broadway or on tour 

• 2 orchestra tickets to American Ballet Theatre & backstage tour, + Misty Copeland signed pointe shoes

• 2 orchestra tickets to To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway + a backstage tour

• 2 tickets for a Theresa Rebeck double bill - Bernhardt/Hamlet on Broadway & Downstairs at Primary Stages (directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt)

Silent Auction

• 2 orchestra tickets to DEAR EVAN HANSEN on Broadway + a backstage tour

• 2 orchestra tickets to HAMILTON on Broadway or on tour 

• A stay in Cambridge, MA + tickets to A.R.T.

• Round of golf at Westchester Country Club

• Getaway to Williamstown, MA: Private tour of the Clark Art Institute 

• Overnight at the Wythe Hotel

• Two-night stay at the Spruceton Inn

• Bag of lululemon collection athleisure wear

• Sara Campbell pashmina

ENTERTAINMENT:
DJ DEWEY                                 
Composer/Lyricist ZOE SARNAK (2018 Jonathan Larson Award Recipient) 
Performer Andi Alhadeff 
Performer & Auctioneer Will Roland (Dear Evan Hansen, Be More Chill)

We'll be celebrating our:

• 10th & 11th world premieres!

• on-going 2rd commission (with playwright Antoinette Nwandu)!

• on-going partnership with the WP Theater - for our 5th Annual Parity Plays Festival! 

• 2nd class of CoCo Resident playwrights & directors!

• 9th annual free theater intensive for Brooklyn teens!

Our favorite way to raise funds is by partying... but we also welcome your donations!

Info & tickets!

A grand hotel in Switzerland. 
Guests enjoy their private, awkward, funny and not-so-funny lives while the world around them falls apart. 
A play about the big and the small, messes and who cleans them up, and the impossibility of neutrality.

Cast:

Scenic design by John McDermott // Costume design by Tilly Grimes

Lighting design by Grant Yeager // Sound design by Brendan Aanes

Properties by Samantha Shner // Production management by Daniel Prosky

Line Producer: Jessica Rieken // Associate Producer: Shannon Buhler 

Stage Manager: Abbie Betts* // Assistant stage manager: Katie Cecil Cairns
 

For tickets please click here or click here to check out our Kickstarter!

NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP
Next Door Series
79 East 4th St. (btwn Bowery & 2nd Ave.), New York, NY 10003

 

*These artists are appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association. This is an Equity-Approved Showcase.

Zürich is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Celia Keenan-Bolger presents Adrienne Campbell-Holt with the Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award 2018

Click here to read about the inspiring event and here to watch an excerpt from the League of Professional Theatre Women Awards on March 16, 2018 ceremony at the Times Center.
More information about this organization can be found at theatrewomen.org.

Announcing our 9th world premiere!

COLT COEUR, in partnership with
NEXT DOOR at NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP,
presents

ZÜRICH
A new play by Amelia Roper // Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt

Funerals are for the living. What happened and why and who did it and how, none of that matters in the moments before. This is a play about the moments before. 
Zürich is a series of two-handers, each in identical hotel rooms in a grand hotel, as guests enjoy the last moments of their private, awkward, funny and not-so-funny lives. Themes of nationalism, tourism, social responsibility, isolation, class and gender roles are all explored in Zürich, as well as the tension between public vs. private and assimilation vs. diversity. In a time of global crisis, what does armed neutrality mean for a country full of banks?

This play was commissioned and developed by Colt Coeur, in partnership with the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

Performance dates: April 14-May 5, 2018

For more information on this production please click here.

AMELIA ROPER (Playwright)

Amelia is a queer immigrant writing comedies for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Marin Theatre Company, The Rose and an adaptation of Jane Bowles’ Two Serious Ladies for Yale Repertory Theatre. Her plays have been produced by the Humana Festival of New American Plays at ATL, Moscow Playwright and Director Center in Russian translation, Taffety Punk in DC, Square Product in Boulder, Prelude Festival NYC, Crowded Fire in SF, Kings Cross Theatre in Sydney and the Melbourne Arts Centre. Showcase and developments include the Old Vic in London, Soho Rep Writer / Director Lab, Black Swan Lab at OSF, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Kennedy Center in DC, Playwrights Realm in NYC, New Group NYC, Melbourne Theatre Company, RADA in London, The MacDowell Colony and Boston Court in LA. Published plays include Big Sky Town and Camberwell House by DPS, an excerpt of Lottie In The Late Afternoon appears in the new Kilroy’s book and She Rode Horses Like The Stock Exchange with an introduction by Sarah Ruhl will soon be published in Australia. New plays include Everything Is Nice, Aliya In Americaland and A Duck On A Bike. She has an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT (Director)

Adrienne is the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur, a Brooklyn-based theatre company. She is the Associate Director on the Broadway production of Dear Evan Hansen. Adrienne has recently directed Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against (WP Theater), Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck, starring Tyne Daly and Tim Daly (Dorset Theater Festival), Empathitrax by Ana Nogueria (Colt Coeur @ HERE, 2016), the world premiere of Cal in Camo by William Francis Hoffman (co-pro Rattlestick & Colt Coeur), a workshop production of Kings by Sarah Burgess starring Larry Pine and Quincy Tyler Bernstine (WP Theater, NYC), Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl (Dorset Theater Festival). Recent world premieres: Theresa Rebeck’s The Nest (Denver Theatre Company), One Child Born (Oberon at American Repertory Theater), How to Live on Earth by MJ Kaufman (Colt Coeur @ HERE, September 2015), Chiara Atik’s 52nd to Bowery (EST Marathon), Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur @ HERE, NYC), Greg Moss’ REUNION (South Coast Rep), Everything is Ours by Nikole Beckwith (Colt Coeur @ HERE), Recall by Eliza Clark (Colt Coeur @ Wild Project), Fish Eye (Colt Coeur @ HERE). Other productions: Red starring Tim Daly (Dorset Theater Festival), world premiere of Seven Minutes in Heaven by Steven Levenson (Colt Coeur @ HERE). Adrienne is a Time Warner/Women’s Project Lab 2014-2016 Fellow. She has developed work with La Jolla Playhouse, Roundabout Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Playwrights’ Center and EST. She is also the director of #makeitfair. BA Barnard College, Columbia University.

Zürich is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED, IN PART, BY PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY COUNCIL.

CoCo partners with WP Theater for 4th Annual Parity Plays Festival

In the spirit of promoting opportunities for female and trans playwrights and directors Colt Coeur's 4th annual Parity Plays Festival features four public readings of new plays. This year our Festival is co-curated with WP Theater, and the Parity Plays series will appear on the WP Theater stage for the very first time.

Click here for more information and to reserve your free tickets.
The WP Theater is located at 2162 Broadway (at 76th Street), 4th floor, NY, NY.

Monday 11/13 4:00PM
Hatefuck
by Rehana Lew Mirza
directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Thursday 11/16  3:00PM
GOD SAID THIS
by Leah Nanako Winkler
directed by Morgan Gould
CAST:  Jeff Biehl, Satomi Blair, Ako Dachs, Emma Kikue Munson, Jay Patterson, Emily Kunkel

Sunday 11/19  7:00PM
Perry Street
by Lucy Thurber
CAST:  Jennifer Carpenter, Glenn Davis, Amanda Seyfried, Trudie Styler, Michael Warner

Monday 11/20  7:00PM
Le Jeté
by Catherine Yu
directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
CAST: Molly Carden, Lauren Currie Lewis, Lynne Lipton, Eden Marryshow, Kate Cullen Roberts, Brian Wiles, Tyler Weaks + more.

Colt Coeur is committed to gender parity in programming, staffing, and representation within narratives.

Colt Coeur commissions Antoinette Nwandu, partners with the WP Theater, and launches CoCo Residents program with 6 playwrights & directors

Colt Coeur is thrilled to announce our 2nd commission ever, our 1stpartnership with the Women’s Project Theater (on our upcoming 4th annual Parity Plays Festival – stay tuned for more details), and the launch of our CoCo Residents program.

COMMISSIONED PLAYWRIGHT 2017-2018

Antoinette Nwandu is a New York-based playwright via Los Angeles. In June, Steppenwolf presented the World Premiere of her play PASS OVER which sparked a national conversation about bigotry and implicit bias in critical responses. Her play BREACH will receive a World Premiere at Victory Gardens in February 2018, and she is currently under commission from Echo Theater Company in Los Angeles. Antoinette’s plays have been supported by the Sundance Theater Lab, MacDowell, the Cherry Lane Mentor Project (mentor: Katori Hall), Kennedy Center, Page73, Ars Nova, PlayPenn, Space on Ryder Farm, Southern Rep, The Flea, Naked Angels, Fire This Time, and The Movement Theater Company. Honors include spots on the 2016 and 2017 Kilroys lists, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, the Negro Ensemble Company’s Douglas Turner Ward Prize, and a Literary Fellowship at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Antoinette is an alum of the Ars Nova Play Group, the Naked Angels Issues PlayLab, and Dramatists Guild Fellowship. Additional honors include being named a Ruby Prize finalist, PONY Fellowship finalist, Page73 Fellowship finalist, NBT’s I Am Soul Fellowship finalist, and two-time Princess Grace Award semi-finalist. Education: Harvard, The University of Edinburgh, Tisch School of the Arts.

Our 10th world premiere…

Ms. Nwandu and CoCo Artistic Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt are currently developing a new play, the company’s 10th – and their 5th play created from scratch – with a company of actors and designers. The devised theater piece will tackle thorny existential and socio-political questions: “What does it mean to be American? Who gets to determine that definition and how?” addressing the United States as a country at a crossroads. A country at odds with itself. Tensions that the play will explore include the rise of white nationalism as a backlash against the multiculturalization of America; toxic masculinity at odds with a heightened awareness of trans and queer identities; and the ubiquity of social media in the face of the loss of privacy and anonymity. For this reason there is no better time to discover afresh who we are as a nation than by revisiting moments in our storied history and exploring how they impact our lives today. We aim to uncover the parallels between historical and contemporary oppressions and how we as a nation recover ourselves from them.

Residents: Playwrights & Directors 2017-2018

The Residents program will provide 6 playwrights & directors with the invaluable resources of space, community, and a small stipend. Artistic Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt and company member playwrights MJ Kaufman, Steven Levenson, and Ana Nogueira will meet with the Residents on a quarterly basis.

Kate Cortesi is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter who grew up in Washington D.C. Her full-length plays include One More Less, Great Kills, and A Patron of the Arts. Her work has been developed at Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, South Coast Rep, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, terraNOVA Collective, The Lark, and Colt Coeur, and has been produced at The Underbelly in Edinburgh, Columbia University, and Premiere Stages at Kean University. Awards/honors include Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship (2014-2015), Columbia University’s Karen Brownstein Award, NYFA Fellowship (2016), Kilroy’s List Honorable Mention (2016), and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist (2017). Kate is a proud resident playwright at New Dramatists. She has taught writing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Riker’s Island, and a lot of places in between.

Jeremy O. Harris is an actor and playwright currently residing in New Haven, CT by way of Los Angeles, CA. His full-length plays include, Xander Xyst, Dragon: 1, “Daddy”, WATER SPORTS; or insignificant white boys, and Slave Play. Short plays include: I TRIED TO WRITE A POEM & THIS CAME OUT, Untitled Merchant of Venice Adaptation (collaboration with conceptual artist David Birkin), N*Words In Paris, IDK (a cute race-based pyschosis), and NORF. He is a 2016 MacDowell Colony Fellow, 2016 Chesley/Bumbalo Playwriting Award Finalist, 2016 Princess Grace Award Semi-Finalist and is under commission from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons. Jeremy is currently in his second year at the Yale School of Drama for Playwriting.

Rehana Lew Mirza is currently a resident playwright (w/ Mike Lew) at Ma-Yi Theater as part of the Mellon National Playwright Residency. She is also a 2017 HBO Access Fellow. Additional honors include: 2016 Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop fellow at the Lark, 2016 Lilly Award (Stacey Mindich “Go Write A Play”), Rhinebeck residency with collaborators Sam Willmott and Mike Lew for Bhangin’ It, TCG Fellowship with New Georges. Productions: Soldier X (Ma-Yi; Brooklyn College; 2015 Kilroy); Lonely Leela(LaGuardia Performing Arts Center); Barriers (Desipina and Asian American Theater Company). Commissions: NNPN/InterAct for Neighborhood Watch; E.S.T./Sloan for Particles of Pakistan; La Jolla Playhouse for The Colonialism Trilogy (w/ Mike Lew); NYSCA/Lark for Soldier X; Kennedy Center commission (w/ Mike Lew.) MFA: Columbia University; BFA: NYU Tisch. www.rehanamirza.com

Danya Taymor is a director and translator. Recent work: Nwandu’s Pass Over (Steppenwolf), Tuvalu (Sundance) and Flat Sam (PlayPenn), Yungerberg’s Esai’s Table (Cherry Lane), Kuritzkes’ The Sensuality Party (New Group), Watkins’ Wyoming (Lesser America) and My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer (The Flea), Soon-He Stanton’s Cygnus (Women’s Project), Gancher’s The Place We Built (The Flea), and Legom’s I Hate Fucking Mexicans (The Flea), which she also translated. She was a Time Warner Directing Fellow at WP, a 2050 fellow at NYTW, and is a current Artist in Residence at TFANA, a member of EST, and an Associate Artist at The Flea. Recipient of: Van Lier Directing Fellowship; Gates Foundation Grant, Rough Draft Residency (Drama League) and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Upcoming: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Everybody (Juilliard) and Martyna Majok’s Queens (LCT3).

Pirronne Yousefzadeh is a Brooklyn based director, writer, and educator. Recent projects include Utopia, Minnesota by Meg Miroshnik (2016 Sagal Fellowship, Williamstown Theatre Festival), That High Lonesome Sound (Actors Theatre of Louisville; 2015 Humana Festival) and We Are Proud To Present A Presentation… by Jackie Sibblies Drury (InterAct Theatre Company), And If You Lose Your Way, or A Food Odyssey (Invisible Dog). Her productions of The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane by Jen Silverman (InterAct Theater Company) and In The Blood (Theatre Horizon) together received a total of fifteen Barrymore Award nominations, including Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Overall Production. She has directed/developed work at The Public, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Rising Circle Theater Collective, Woodshed Collective (The Tenant: Best of 2011, L Magazine), Partial Comfort, Noor Theatre, Rising Phoenix Rep, HERE Arts Center, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Wild Project, Dixon Place, Living Theatre, Lark Play Development Center, New Dramatists, Juilliard, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Two River, Milwaukee Rep, On The Boards, Perseverance Theatre, Berkshire Fringe Festival, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, and Hangar Theatre, where she was a 2006 Drama League Directing Fellow. M.F.A. in Directing from Columbia University, (Shubert Presidential Fellow). Current and upcoming: Mad Forest by Caryl Churchill (Columbia), Veil’d by Monet Hurst-Mendoza (Astoria Performing Arts Center), The Invisible Hand (Cleveland Playhouse). Member, SDC. www.pirronne.com

Catherine Yu‘s plays include Le Jeté, Stargaze, The Sun Experiment (FringeNYC 2014 Award for Excellence in Playwriting; Time Out New York’s Top Ten Music and Nightlife Events of The Week, published by IndieTheaterNow), and The Day Is Long To End. Her short plays have been commissioned by the 52nd Street Project, UglyRhino, and Culture Project. Her short play “A Sand Romance” was a 2016 Heidman finalist. Her poem “To the Movement” was featured in a recent Planned Parenthood fundraiser. She has been a NYTW Emerging Artist of Color and Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab writer, a 2016 NYSCA/NYFA Playwright Fellow, and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. She is currently working on a play set in Mexico City and a libretto for a Chinese opera. BA: Stanford University. MFA: NYU.