Sit down with the artists in our Spring/Summer season!

On Saturday, April 17th Colt Coeur kicked off its spring season with a free virtual celebration hosted by CoCo Board member Sendhil Ramamurthy (Hatef**k, “Never Have I Ever”) and Artistic Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt, and featuring artists from all of the spring programming. Ramamurthy and Campbell-Holt interviewed the playwrights and directors about their projects and processes and casting was announced for the first of the projects.

This livestream is available to view until June 30th - tickets are free, however reservations are required. Click here to get your free ticket.

SPRING SEASON 2021:

Saturday, MAY 22nd 8pm ET (avail until Wednesday, May 26th)

Grey Matters, by Colt Coeur company member Eden Marryshow & directed by Steve H. Broadnax III (Broadway’s upcoming production of Thoughts of a Colored Man). Based on real life events, the play chronicles the love, labor and pain of being in an interracial marriage in Brooklyn in the 1970 and 1980s. Jeannie is white and pregnant, Ed is black and the father, they love each other but… is love enough? Does grey matter? A unique livestream performance. 

Thursday, July 1 (avail until Monday, July 5th)

Feel the Spirit, by resident artist Noelle Viñas & directed by Elizabeth Carter (Eureka Day, 2019), Gabriela, a young, queer pastor new in her post, is struggling to navigate her new congregation’s shift to online worship due to COVID-19. As seasons change outside and the flat timeline of quarantine continues, the church fights to maintain a practice that rotates around fellowship and community across generations and cultures when they can’t hug, cook, or sing together. Feel The Spirit pushes against the isolation of virtual engagement by inviting audience members to turn their cameras on, and engage in moments of real-time reflection. This communal experience is a multi-faceted meditation on spirituality and the past year, asking all of us to consider the ways God has shown up in our individual and collective humanity. A made-for-Zoom play commissioned by Shotgun Players. 

September 2021 (dates tba soon)

the dowagers, by Colt Coeur company member Justice Hehir & directed by Joan Sergay. Salome, Tara, and Nick share an apartment building and a system for navigating the unspeakable. A pandemic-era play about neighbors, proximity, and the many permutations of care, the dowagers is a meditation on loss and lust - set on a single stoop. An outdoor, socially distanced reading.

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BIOS

Steve H. Broadnax III - Directing credits include various shows and theatre’s nationally and internationally including: Broadway Bound THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN by Keenan Scott II, THE HOT WING KING by Katori Hall  Signature Theatre NYC, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Hattiloo Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Ensemble Studio Theatre Company NYC, Chautauqua Theatre Company, People’s Light Theatre, Apollo Theatre NYC, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Atlantic Theatre NYC, Detroit Public Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, The Black Theatre Troupe in Phoenix, AZ, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Moore Theatre in Seattle, Market Theatre Johannesburg SA, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, National Arts Festival in South Africa, and The Adelaide Arts Festival Australia. 

Elizabeth Carter is a director and actor based in the SF Bay Area who was seen in Eureka Day at Colt Coeur in 2019. Her directing includes San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s 2020 groundbreaking virtual King Lear,  Bondage (Honorable Mention for the Relentless Award), Every 28 Hours Plays and A Place to Belong with American Conservatory Theatre, for colored girls….(Broadway World Best Local Play and TBA nominee Best Ensemble) with African American Shakespeare Co. and Participants (TBA Best Anthology) for TheatreFirst. She has directed for California Shakespeare Theater Conservatory and is the Associate Director of the Theatre Dept. at Ruth Asawa Schoolof the Arts.  She is a recipient of the Bridging the Gap Grant and a Director’s West 2019 Alum.

Justice Hehir is a playwright whose work explores sexuality, feminism, and the formation and rupture of human bonds. She is a company member of Colt Coeur and is the recipient of a 2021 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. She is currently commissioned by George Street Playhouse and is an alumna of the 2020 Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group. Other recent projects include “true believer”, published this year by Table Work Press, and “freeplay”, under development through a 2020 EST/Sloan Project commission. MFA: Hunter College, BA: Rutgers University. She lives in Newark, NJ.

Eden Marryshow is an award-winning Director/Writer/Actor from Flatbush, Brooklyn. He co-wrote, produced and starred in the Feature Film BRUCE!!!! which garnered Marryshow the Grand Jury Prize: Best Director at  ABFF, the HBO Award for Best Film and the Audience Award at the MVAAFF, and was nominated for Best Film at Urbanworld Film Festival. BRUCE!!!! opened Nationwide theatrically in 25 cities through AMCindependent, and he simultaneously had his Broadway debut as Ray Mills in the Tony Award winning play INK. He is in Post-production for his latest film, All, Alone., which was shot in April during Quarantine, and his latest project the limited series EKLYPSE: A Hip-Hop Fable was a part of Urbanworld 2020. Eden is a Colt Coeur company member. Peanut, I miss you and love you. 

Joan Sergay is a Brooklyn-based director of new work, originally from Washington, D.C. She has worked at Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Vineyard Theatre, The Play Company, Primary Stages, The Flea, The Tank, Two Headed Rep, and Dixon Place. She has also worked regionally at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The University of California San Diego, Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Rivendell Theatre, Citadel Theatre, and Piven Theatre in Chicago. Joan is a former Directing Fellow at Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. BA: Northwestern University www.joansergay.com

Noelle Viñas is a playwright, educator, and theater-artist from Springfield, Virginia and Montevideo, Uruguay. She is a resident artist at Colt Coeur and a member of The Civilians ' 2020-2021 R&D Group. Her play Derecho (2019 John Gassner Playwriting Award, 2019 Jane Chambers Honorable Mention) was workshopped as part of the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Recent commissions include Weston Playhouse for her short play Zoom Intervention (NY Times Critic's Pick), Every Time I Feel The Spirit for Shotgun Players, Lauren Gunderson's New Now Commission, and the book for The Long Horizon, a space musical for Imagination Stage's Speak Out Onstage Ensemble. Previously, she was part of Playwrights Foundation's four-year Resident Playwrights Initiative and a 2019 Artist-in-Residence at Djerassi. Viñas resides in Brooklyn and will be graduating with her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College in spring 2021. 

COLT COEUR is a Brooklyn-based theater company founded in 2010. Our original, story-driven, visceral theater pulls you close and doesn’t let go. Our community of artists nurtures and invests in diverse perspectives to produce work that straddles the line between mainstream and experimental.  We strive to create great happenings in small rooms, theater as close as a whisper in your ear or a stranger’s hand brushing yours. Intimacy is our way in. We embrace the infinite theatrical potential of intimate live performance. We contemplate questions that inspire us and devise theater pieces which respond to and engage with the world in which we live. We address the ambivalence, terror and exhilaration of our age through theater that utilizes a simplicity of means to achieve richness of expression. 

 Artistic Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt and Managing Director Bailey Williams lead a 21-member ensemble of actors, playwrights and designers to nurture the next generation of theater artists through the development and production of new plays and by providing arts education and mentorship to students from under-resourced NYC public schools. Over 11 years, Colt Coeur has produced 11 world premieres, 1 east coast premiere; developed 48 plays; and provided free arts education for over 200 students.

All 12 of Colt Coeur’s world premieres explored themes of resonance to our times while ranging in subject matter from teen pregnancy (Dry Land), to postpartum depression and the struggle to make ends meet for a working-class family (Cal in Camo), to the underlying appetite for new frontiers that is manifest in applicants looking to travel on a one-way mission to Mars (How to Live on Earth).  Half of the productions were developed from scratch with a company of actors, designers, a playwright, and director Adrienne Campbell-Holt. All of the productions received rave reviews and have gone on to publication and/or subsequent national and international productions. Colt Coeur is currently developing new work with commissioned playwrights including Antoinette Nwandu (Paula Vogel Award 2019) and Francisca Da Silveira.

Colt Coeur was poised to produce their 13th world premiere, Polylogues, created and performed by Xandra Nur Clark and directed by Molly Clifford, in April 2020, which was postponed due to the ongoing global health crisis.

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Donations will also go towards Colt Coeur's continued programming.

CoCo shares Social Accountability Update

In Oct 2020 we shared the first draft of our Code of Community. The entire document is avail here, we also wanted to share our commitments publicly on our social channels.

We would like to express gratitude to the following people & orgs that have helped guide our efforts:

• @antiracisttheatre

• @weseeyouwat

• #Lenni-Lenape Land Acknowledgement

• @artny72

• @bushwickstarr

• @wptheater

CoCo welcomes three new additions to Board of Directors!

Colt Coeur recently welcomed 3 additions to its Board of Directors: Tomi Olabanji, Vanessa Peréda, and Ebony Vines. These new members join existing Board members Amy Ashton, Rachel DeMatteo, Amy Groeschel, Julia Jones, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Roberta Kelly, Ray Levin, Alex Marrs, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Erica Rotstein, and AJ Strasser.  

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Tomi Olabanji (she/her) is a young Nigerian techie born and raised in Northern Virginia. She is currently an Onboarding Consultant at Neustar. She partners with clients to navigate the transfer and activation process of their data on various data platforms such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Hulu. Her display of resilience every day dealing with myriad of issues and activities for so many clients, has earned her multiple peer recognition and top performance awards. She also received a recommendation from her CEO to be selected for Neustar’s inaugural Diversity and Inclusion council after her bold efforts to speak to him directly about diverse and cultural awareness efforts. The determination she has in her professional life to leave a trail of excellence seamlessly translates to her personal life. She has a passion for helping people in a manner that extends beyond just financially. She does not to stand behind anything that doesn’t serve a purpose beyond looking great on her resume because she values her integrity and trust she has developed from her network. Tomi is an advocate for the voiceless in every space she finds herself in, recognizing that her own career climb is a testament of others who have done the same for her. Her support of Girls Inspired and Ready to Lead (GIRL), has earned her a spot on the non-profit’s Advisory Council where she continues her work to mentor the next generation on career readiness with a focus on STEAM careers. When she isn’t getting lost behind the latest download on her Kindle, tending to her house plants, or making improvements to her new home, one will find her jet setting to a new destination (#TomiTravels), to soak in the atmosphere of a new culture or cuisine. She is very family oriented and her dog niece Foxy would also say she’s is a joy to be around! Instagram: @tomiohhh // LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tomiolabanji // Girls Inspired and Ready to Lead: https://www.girlsinspiredinc.org/

Vanessa Peréda (she/her/hers) is a Chicana multi-disciplinary theater artist, proud arts-ed programmer, teaching artist, and community builder. Growing up homeless and poor in her youth in Central California, it is her mission to break the chains of inaccessible artistic opportunities and create structures where ALL BIPOC artists, especially those with backgrounds similar to her own, can thrive and have a place at the theatrical table. When not performing, creating, and writing, Vanessa engages in local politics, advocates for climate and restorative justice, and stands by the idea that prioritizing artistic opportunities for BIPOC artists are foundational in building a more equitable industry and city. Vanessa currently works as The Education + Community Director for the Bushwick Starr, as an Artistic Fellow/Collaborator at ¡Oye Group!, and as the co-leader of Colt Coeur’s annual free Education Initiative. vanessapfelix.com

Ebony Vines’ (she/her/hers) most recent credits include: assistant directing the industry concert for the new musical Dear Prospective Student, which was managed by Tony award winning Producers, SL Theatricals. Producer on the short film Ghoul Station now on Amazon Prime, the Typecast Benefit Concert which was presented at the historical Duplex Cabaret Theater and The Women's Cycle at The Cell Theater. She can also be heard co-hosting a weekly podcast called Theatre Geeks Anonymous which is a proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network. She has been featured on blogs and in publications for her theatrical work and is a 2020 graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute's fourteen-week commercial producing program. Ebony is also a founding member of the Think Tank for Theatrical Innovation which is a "collaborative community of theater professionals who provide innovative strategies to promote inclusion, equity, diversity, and access in the creation and business of theater." For more details on Ebony’s background and work you can check out her website at www.ebonyvines.com.

11th Annual FREE theatre-making workshop for students ages 11-15!

Calling All Artists Ages 11-15! 

JOIN US WHERE THEATRE MEETS ACTIVISM

Colt Coeur Theater is thrilled to announce our
11th Annual FREE 5-week theater making workshop!

Camp will be held virtually on 5 Saturdays
February 27th - March 27th, 12-2pm (ET)

Final presentation:
Sunday, March 28th (time tbd)

Fill out your application by clicking on this link.
(Please fill it out by February 10th, 2021 to join in on the fun!)

WHO: Students ages 11-15 who have an interest in creating original plays/theatrical pieces & learning about acting, writing, design, and more!

WHAT: In this 5-week workshop we will dive into the urgent stories and issues that YOU want to talk about or share. What’s going on RIGHT NOW affects YOU and the people you love. Let’s find what lights you up, and use our art to create together. 

Join us and a group of professional artists, actors, musicians, designers, and activists to take up YOUR space and tell the stories YOU want to tell!

WHEN: Camp is in session virtually on 5 SATURDAYS February 27 - March 27th, 2021 from 12pm-2pm ET, with a final performance on SUNDAY, March 28th 2021. 

WHERE: ONLINE.

HOW MUCH: FREE!! 

There is no cost to participate however you must commit to being present for all 5 sessions.

If you have any questions please contact Vanessa at cocoplaymaking@gmail.com or at 718.986.8268

** We also offer alumni of our program ages 16+ the opportunity to be PAID student leaders. Email cocoplaymaking@gmail.com if you're interested in applying to be a student leader.

A Letter to You

December 2020

Dear friend,

First and foremost, thank you. If you are reading this letter, you are a part of our Colt Coeur family, and without your help and support, we could not have made the incredible headway we did in this pandemic year.  

Through it all, we have kept making and performing theater - albeit virtually. In May, we re-assembled the cast from our 2019 world premiere of Eureka Day, by Jonathan Spector, with nearly 500 viewers live on Play-Per-View. We produced a 4-show fall season, kicked off with a celebrity cast reading of Steven Levenson’s Seven Minutes in Heaven in honor of the play’s 10th anniversary. The cast of our 2019 world premiere of Rehana Lew Mirza’s Hatef**k reunited in October, and viewers all over the world tuned in. Director Logan Vaughn and playwright Stacey Rose brought together the team from their 2019 world premiere of America V. 2.1: the Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro a few weeks back and over 700 people watched. Over the course of these 6 months of programming - we have paid 42 artists, 64% of whom identify as Black, Latinx, and/or Asian, and 57% of whom identify as women+.

We have also continued to nurture the next generation of theatre artists: serving 31 students in 13 states and employing 16 professional theatre artists in our annual free Education Initiative (online for the first time). This summer, we launched our Mentorship program, pairing 7 BIPOC alumni with Colt Coeur artists for continued support.  

We welcomed a new class of Colt Coeur Resident Artists, as well as extending the residency of 4 of last year’s artists. The current cohort consists of playwrights Bleu Beckford-Burrell, Adrienne Dawes, Emma Goidel and Noelle Viñas, and directors Tara Elliott, J. Mehr Kaur, and Portia Krieger. A newly launched Working Artists Group, led by Kelcey Anyá and Portia Krieger offers artists in our community a monthly playground experience to share work, deepen engagement with collaborators and have fun in a communal setting. We also expanded our Community, welcoming Bailey Williams as our new Managing Director, Amy Ashton and Sendhil Ramamurthy to the Board, and Kelcey Anya, Portia Krieger, and Vanessa Peréda-Felix to our Company. And we celebrated our 10 year anniversary and feted Founding Board member Celia Keenan-Bolger, gathering for a special evening in a packed loft in NoHo last February- little suspecting the seismic shifts in our lives around the corner!

As a “tiny but excellent” company – your gift goes a long way. With a part-time staff of 2, our overhead is low, but our programming remains ambitious.  These tremendous milestones would not have been possible without your support.  Please join me by making a tax-deductible gift to Colt Coeur’s Annual Fund.   If you prefer to donate via check, please use our Brooklyn mailing address below.  Your donation today is an investment in our community, our stories, and our future!

Thank you in advance for your generosity.  I wish you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season! 

Sincerely,
Adrienne Campbell-Holt
Artistic Director

138 South Oxford Street #4E // Brooklyn, NY 11217
Artistic Director: Adrienne Campbell-Holt // Managing Director: Bailey Williams
Board of Directors
Amy Ashton  ×  Rachel DeMatteo  ×  Amy Groeschel  ×  Julia Jones  ×  Celia Keenan-Bolger  ×  Roberta Kelly  ×  Ray Levin  × Alex Marrs  ×  Vanessa Peréda  ×  Sendhil Ramamurthy ×  Erica Rotstein  × AJ Strasser

Colt Coeur Company
Amy Altadonna  ×  Kelcey Anyá  ×  Molly Carden  ×  Ato Essandoh  × Amy Groeschel 
 Adam Harrington  ×  Justice Hehir  ×   MJ Kaufman   ×  Steven Levenson  ×  Lynne Lipton  ×  Natalie Margolin × Eden Marryshow   ×  John McDermott  × Ana Nogueira  ×  Vanessa Peréda ×  Kate Roberts  ×   Matt Stadelmann   ×  Brian Wiles ×  Grant Yeager

www.ColtCoeur.org

HOLIDAY CRAPTACULAR: A VARIETY SHOW TO CLOSE OUT 2020

A FREE night of comedy, music, sketches, games, dance & much, much more!

Hosts: Sidikha Ashraf & Adam Harrington

LIVESTREAM: SATURDAY, DEC 12TH 8PM ET LIVESTREAM

Performers include: Sara Bareilles, Taye Diggs, Karla Puno Garcia (HAMILTON), Jo Lampert ("ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK", "TRANSPARENT"), Justin Linville ("THE CHRIS GETHARD SHOW"), Natalie Margolin & her grandmother, Sade Namei, Emily Tarver & Vicki Martinez ("ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK"), & MORE

Produced by COLT COEUR.

CLICK HERE FOR FREE TICKETS!

AMERICA V. 2.1 NOV 21ST-25TH!

Please join Colt Coeur for the award-winning

America V. 2.1
by Stacey Rose
directed by Logan Vaughn
reuniting the entire cast of the 2019 world premiere!

Cast:
Ansa Akyea, Jordan Barrow, Kalyne Coleman, Peterson Townsend & Peggy Pharr Wilson

Sound design: Luqman Brown
choreography/movement: Kevin Boseman
Stage manager: Norman Anthony Small

The play will be performed live on Saturday, November 21st at 8pm ET and be available to stream until Wednesday, November 25th 11pm ET. A talkback with the cast and creative team will follow the performance. Tickets start at $5 and are available here. 

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This bold, brave, important, timely, and highly relevant story is  a cautionary tale...
If, in the face of recent events, you have uttered the phrase: Wait - WHAT?
If you have thought how can this be happening?
If you wonder how there can be "fine people on both sides"?

If you have asked how did we get here?
If you find yourself pondering if this is what the founders had in mind?
If you think you are "woke"... You should see this play!

- BROADWAY WORLD 

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America v. 2.1, or the Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro, is a day in the life of a troupe of historical re-enactors charged with telling the tragic story of what was once was the American Negro, a woeful race once featured prominently in the American landscape, but whose time has been extinguished at their own foolish hand. The troupe finds themselves at odds with the state of their own existences while being painfully oblivious to the parallels and intersections their lives draw to that of the very Negroes whose story they are bound to tell. As this oblivion fades and they are faced with their stark reality, this day in the life of actors, becomes a day of reckoning.

(Production still from Barrington Stage Company's 2019 world premiere by Daniel Rader.)

We'd like to share our Code of Community & Action Items.

 COCO’S CODE OF COMMUNITY

Our Code of Community is a living document that we commit to updating, revisiting, and  consistently offering room for edits in order to remain in alignment of anti-racist practices, inclusivity, and the spirit of true collaboration. 

Dated: October 18, 2020

YOU ARE WELCOME HERE

At Colt Coeur, we welcome and embrace all human beings and safeguard and embolden our differences. 

Our company will not stand for racism, sexism, queerphobia, ableism, entitlement and any other conduct that threatens to destroy the fabric of the socially equitable industry we are creating.  

We would like to acknowledge the variety of visible and invisible access needs of our community of artistic collaborators and audience members and make a commitment to supporting those needs to the best of our abilities.

We recognize the delicacy of theatrical performance and of the social aspects affiliated with theater - but we place the health and well-being of our company and community as paramount. We nurture and prioritize personal investment in our artists, students, community and all we come in contact with. 

Action Items: ·       We are doing away with ‘10 out of 12’ rehearsals and the 6-day work week. 

·       We hire intimacy directors when needed for productions and we will encourage our company to stay home when sick. 

·       We cover transportation costs for interns and would never ask them to work more than 10 hours a week. 

·       We also support our collaborators who are working parents by offering flexible rehearsal schedules, as well as private lactation rooms.   

SOCIAL JUSTICE STANCE AND COCO
To ensure that we are a community that commits itself to the We See You White American Theater document, social equity and anti-racist practices, we heavily consider who we work with and make a promise to prioritize BIPOC collaborators and works that reflect our core values and our mission. We are grateful for the generosity of the WSYWAT creators and acknowledge the deficiency in the make-up of our programming and collaborators historically. We commit to amplifying and nurturing the work of Black, Indigenous and POC artists and recognize the tremendous value these artists add to our company and our world.

Action Items: 
·       The majority of our Colt Coeur community participated in Nicole Brewer’s Anti-Racist Theatre: A Foundational Course in September and October of 2020; additional members of our company and board will participate in this training in November. We commit to a continued engagement with anti-racism training and education.

·       We commit to reaching 50%+ BIPOC representation by 2022 across our Board, Company and production teams. 

·       We continue our longstanding commitment to 50%+ BIPOC representation within our Residency Program and Education Initiative. 

TRANSFORMATIVE ANTI-RACIST PRACTICES
We make a commitment to uphold transformative and anti-racist work as a company and expect all who collaborate with us to join us in this work. We consistently seek opportunities to grow and to learn how we participate in antiquated, problematic systems. We dedicate our time together to not only champion the arts but also to reflect and assess how we can DO better and BE better for our BIPOC artistic community.

Action Items: ·       We are currently creating flow charts to make transparent our points of access, as well as offering artists, staff and audience open and clear channels of communication with the goal of becoming a more equitable institution.

·       We are also working on updating our Handbook so our mission and goals can be laid out clearly for all to see. 

OUR IMPACT
We recognize that everything we do in this industry has an impact not only on our artistic community but on our local and global community as well. Our goal is to positively impact the land we utilize for rehearsal, productions, and education; and the communities therein.

We acknowledge that the land upon which we gather to rehearse and present our work in NYC is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” We commit to anti-racist practices and uplift the Lenni-Lenape (and any other indigenous tribes) as the original people of this land and acknowledge the erasure of their history, the loss of their ancestors and culture at the hand of colonialism and continuing practices of racism still present in our industry and our society. 

We nurture the next generation of theater artists by offering in-depth exploration of artistic expression through our annual Education Initiative, Mentorship and Internship programs. Since 2010 the Education Initiative has served students from under-resourced NYC public schools; in 2020 we operated virtually and worked with students across the country.

Action Items: 
·       We commit to continued focus on our Education Initiative, to growing our Mentorship program for the public school students in our community, and to supporting more students in ongoing and authentic engagement. 

·       We also build community relationships and support local businesses by hosting events at neighborhood establishments and by offering exposure to our audiences via ads or offers in our programs.

·       We support continuing our relationship with the Lenni-Lenape people and territory by sharing a statement at every one of our gatherings, public or internal. 

GROWTH AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Growth and adaptation can only happen with accountability. We vow to hold ourselves accountable to the mission of our company and this code of community and openly invite any feedback from the people with whom we work. 

Along with this document, we are a work-in-progress. This code and our company must never stop growing, improving, and adapting. We are open to always learning and to becoming better. 

Action Items: 
·       We invite you to engage with us and help us with this call to accountability. Please contact us via email at coltcoeur@gmail.com.

·       We will update this document and provide dates accordingly as we do the work.

ASPIRATIONS
As part of our ongoing efforts to improve, and continually move towards equitable practices, the following items have been identified as important, but due to a myriad of reasons, we are unable to change in the immediate. 

Our hope is that this section clearly lists out our planned initiatives, and provides a way to hold ourselves accountable to seeing them through. 

·       Create a position called Community-Impact Liaison, who works towards engaging with both the current, and the Indigenous peoples of the communities we rehearse and perform in to create authentic, lasting relationships, and opportunities of collaboration and fellowship.  

·       Hold Town Halls consistently throughout the year in order to provide accessible opportunities to meet with the communities we work and give them the space to give us feedback, or other offerings that will improve the way we move through the world. 
 

We would like to acknowledge the following people and organizations that have provided incredible resources and information that have helped guide our efforts and research.

·       Nicole Brewer’s Anti-Racist Theatre Training

·       Lenni-Lenape Land Acknowledgement 

·       ART/New York

·       The Bushwick Starr

·       WP Theater 

Announcing our 2020-2021 Resident Artists!

We are thrilled to welcome three additional artists:
playwrights Bleu Beckford-BURRELL, Adrienne Dawes, and Noelle Viñas;
as well as extend the Residency of four of last year's cohort:
directors Tara Elliott, J. Mehr Kaur, and Portia Krieger, as well as playwright Emma Goidel

Now in its 4th year, the CoCo Residency provides an intimate group of playwrights & directors with the invaluable resources of community, space to work, and a stipend. Artistic Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt and Managing Director Bailey Williams meet 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. This past February, we had the privilege of sitting down with auteur directors Tina Satter, Tamilla Woodard and CoCo Resident alum Whitney White.

(All of last year's residents were offered the option to extend through 2021, due to the unique impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.) 

Here is a bit more information about this incredible cohort:

Bleu Beckford-Burrell is a first-generation Jamaican-American actor/playwright. Born and raised in New York City, she works for non-profit organizations where she teaches acting to teens, as well as write and direct plays. Her plays include: P.S.365 (2019 O’Neill Finalist) showcased at EST (Youngblood Workshop Series) and The National Black Theatre (Keep the Soul Alive reading series). Lyons Pride (2018 BAPF, Princess Grace Award Finalist, 2019 The Kilroy’s Honorable Mention, and Yale Drama Series Runner Up) showcased at Playwrights Realm (Ink’d Festival of New Plays) and EST (Bloodwork Reading Series). La Race (2020 Normal Ave Finalist and O’Neill, BAPF Semi-finalist) up-coming showcases at Faultline Theatre (Irons in the Fire) and Page73 (Virtual Residency). She is The Playwright Realm Fellow (2018), PWC New Voices Fellowship (2018, Finalist), P73 Fellowship (2020, Finalist), NYTW/2050 Fellowship (2019, Finalist) as well as an I73 playwright (2020), Colt Coeur resident (2021), PWC Core Writer (2020, Finalist), WP Lab (2020, Finalist), Working Farm (2019, Finalist), et cet. She received the Playwrights Horizons, Jody Falco & Jeffrey Steinman Commission for Emerging Playwrights (2020) and has been nominated for South Coast Repertory, Elizabeth George Emerging Writer Commission (2021). M.F.A. Rutgers University.  BleuBeckford.com

Adrienne Dawes is a playwright, producer, and teaching artist originally from Austin, TX. Her work has been developed with Queen City New Play Initiative, The Workshop Theater, Stages Repertory, B Street Theatre, Teatro Milagro, National Black Theatre, North Carolina Black Repertory, English Theatre Berlin, and more. Adrienne has been an Alice Judson Hayes Fellow (Ragdale Foundation), a Literary Fellow at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (George Kaiser Family Foundation), and she was recently awarded a 2020 MAP Fund grant for her play Casta (slated to premiere at the Blanton Museum of Art in 2021). Adrienne is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ScriptWorks, and a company member of Salvage Vanguard Theater. www.adriennedawes.com 

Emma Goidel is the 2020 Playwriting Fellow at Page 73. Her plays include The Gap (Barrymore Award, Kilroys List 2019), Two Minutes To Midnight (Clubbed Thumb Emerging Writers Group, mentored by Sheila Callaghan), A Knee That Can Bend (Nominee, ATCA/Steinberg Award & Lanford Wilson Award), Local Girls (Finalist, Princess Grace Award), and We Can All Agree To Pretend This Never Happened (EST, Òran Mór, Tiny Dynamite/InterAct). Her work has been presented by Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, InterAct, LAByrinth, Playwrights Realm, Playwrights’ Center, NYSAF, and PlayPenn’s the Foundry. She is a co-founder of the Barrymore Award-winning producing playwrights collective Orbiter 3, and a Kilroy.

J. Mehr Kaur is a director & producer of theatre and film. She created “Kultar’s Mime,” a movement theatre piece written in verse, about the 1984 anti-Sikh program. Recently, she directed the NY premiere of “Queen” by Madhuri Shekar (APAC) and served as Producing Director for Rat Queen Theatre Co, developing devised musicals. Mehr is the assistant director to Adrienne Campbell-Holt on the new musical “Other World.” She is an MFA candidate at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, a graduate of Smith College, Colt Coeur Resident Artist, WTF Directing Corps member, MTC Directing Fellow and recipient of a Fulbright.

Noelle Viñas is a playwright, educator, and theater-artist from Springfield, Virginia and Montevideo, Uruguay. She is a resident playwright at Playwrights Foundation, a resident artist at Colt Coeur, and 2020-2021 member of The Civilians R&D Group. Her play Derecho won the 2019 John Gassner Playwriting Award, along with being part of the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Her one-act play, La profesora, was commissioned and produced by TheatreFirst and is currently in development to become the podcast Abuelito with We Rise Production. Recent commissions include Weston Playhouse for her short play Zoom Intervention (NY Times Critic's Pick) and Shotgun Players. She is currently an MFA Playwriting Candidate at Brooklyn College under Erin Courtney, Tina Satter, and Anne Washburn.

ANNOUNCING OUR 4-SHOW FALL 2020 SEASON!

NIC ASHE, NATALIA DYER, LEAH LEWIS, JUSTIN LINVILLE, DALLAS LIU AND ODEYA RUSH
 TO READ

SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN
BY STEVEN LEVENSON
DIRECTED BY ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT

FOR ONE-NIGHT ONLY CHARITY READING ONLINE

SEPTEMBER 26th, 2020 8pm et

IN HONOR OF THE PLAY’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY

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SENDHIL RAMAMURTHY AND KAVI LADNIER REUNITE FOR
HATEF**K
BY REHANA LEW MIRZA
DIRECTED BY ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT

OCTOBER 24th at 8pm ET

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ORIGINAL WORLD PREMIERE CAST REUNITES FOR

AMERICA v. 2.1
BY STACEY ROSE
DIRECTED BY LOGAN VAUGHN

NOVEMBER 21st, 2020

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HOLIDAY CRAPTACULAR:
A VARIETY SHOW TO CLOSE OUT 2020

CURATED BY SIDIKHA ASHRAF & ADAM HARRINGTON

DECEMBER DATE & TICKET LINK TBA SOON

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As promised, we are thrilled to share our fall season with you virtually! These happenings will occur each month and are an effort to bring you great theater, raise funds for our continued programming, and employ and compensate incredible artists who are unemployed right now. Tickets range from $5-$100, and all readings will be streamed live one-night only.

In honor of the Seven Minutes in Heaven’s 10th anniversary Adrienne Campbell-Holt and Steven Levenson are joined by an all-star cast for a one-night only livestream on Saturday, September 26th at 8pm ET. The cast features Nic Ashe (Queen Sugar), Natalia Dyer (Stranger Things), Leah Lewis (The Half of It), Justin Linville (Crashing), Dallas Liu (PEN15), and Odeya Rush (Lady Bird), with stage directions read by Sidikha Ashraf.  Tickets range from $5-$250 and are available here. Services for this reading are being donated by the celebrity cast and all proceeds will benefit Colt Coeur’s Education and Mentorship programs. Click here for more information and tickets!

In October, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Kavi Ladnier will reunite for Hatefuck, by Rehana Lew Mirza, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt. (The world premiere was co-produced in 2019 by WP Theater and Colt Coeur.) Proceeds from this reading will benefit the artists involved as well as Colt Coeur's Residency Program, of which Rehana is an alumni. Save the date of Saturday, October 17th at 8pm ET. Tickets available here!

Shortly after you cast your very important vote in November, we'll be sharing America V. 2.1, or the Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro, by Stacey Rose, directed by Logan Vaughn on November 21st at 8pm ET. The entire original cast of the world premiere will return for this live reading. Click here for tickets and additional info.

Finally, in December we'll bring you Holiday Craptacular: A Variety Show to Close Out 2020. The evening will be curated by Sidikha Ashraf and Adam Harrington, and feature stand-up comedy, musical performances, and more. The event will livestream Saturday, December 12th at 8pm ET, and be available until December 31st. Tickets are free however must be reserved online.

Although it's not the same as gathering in person, we feel very lucky to share these powerful plays with as wide an audience as possible - while also supporting artists and our ongoing efforts.

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Seven Minutes in Heaven is a hilarious and emotionally raw play that follows six high school freshman caught in the absurd, aching, terrible ecstasy of being young on a splintered night of dysfunctional party games, fumbling first kisses, ruined reputations, broken promises, and raw, raw fun. Set in 1995, the play is charged with the manic exhilaration and stultifying terror of adolescence and explores familiar territory with a unique, brash sense of theatricality. In his 2010 review Jason Zinoman commented on how “the play is so real that you almost believe it was written by one of the characters.”
This reading is presented by special arrangement with Actor’s Equity through Theater Authority, Inc.

A 2019 world premiere by Richard Rodgers-Award winning playwright Rehana Lew Mirza, Hatef**k was described by The New York Times as “Smart, mouthy and sexy! Kavi Ladnier and Sendhil Ramamurthy are dripping with charisma. Just beneath the couple’s pheromone-spiked banter lurks a feeling discussion about representation and identity.” Passions ignite when Layla, an intense literature professor, accuses Imran, a brashly iconoclastic novelist, of trading in anti-Muslim stereotypes. But as their attraction grows into something more, they discover that good sex doesn’t always make good bedfellows. Conflicting cultural identities collide in this thornily clever antidote to a “meet-cute” romance.

America v. 2.1  is a day in the life of a troupe of historical re-enactors charged with telling the tragic story of what was once was the American Negro, a woeful race once featured prominently in the American landscape, but whose time has been extinguished at own foolish hand. The troupe finds themselves at odds with the state of their own existences while being painfully oblivious to the parallels and intersections their lives draw to that of the very Negroes whose story they are bound to tell. As this oblivion fades and they are faced with their stark reality, this day in the life of actors, becomes a day of reckoning. 

About the Artists

Steven Levenson is a Tony Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and television writer and producer. His plays include If I Forget, Core Values, Seven Minutes In Heaven, and The Language of Trees. He wrote the book for the musical, Dear Evan Hansen, which won six Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Musical. He co-created and executive produced the FX series “Fosse/Verdon”, which was nominated for seventeen Emmy Awards, including Best Limited Series and Best Writing for a Limited Series, as well as for Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice Association, and Producers Guild Awards, in addition to winning the Writers Guild Award and an AFI Award for Outstanding Series. Other honors include the OBIE Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award. He served for three seasons as a writer and producer on Showtime’s “Masters Of Sex”. He is a graduate of Brown University and a Founding Company Member of Colt Coeur. 

Rehana Lew Mirza’s plays include: Hatef**k (Colt Coeur/WP), A People’s Guide to History in the Time of Here and Now (Primary Stages Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation’s commission; AADA worshop production); Soldier X (Ma-Yi; Brooklyn College; NY-SCA/Lark Commission); Tomorrow, Inshallah (Living Room Theater, Kansas City; Storyworks/Huffpost commission); Neighborhood Watch (NNPN/InterAct commission) and Barries (Desipina, Asian American Theater Company). With her husband Mike Lew, she was awarded the 2020 Kleban for most promising librettist. They also share a Mellon Foundation National Playwright residency administered in partnership with Howlround at Ma-Yi, as well as a commission at La Jolla Playhouse for The Colonialism Project after previously being their 2018 artists-in-residence.  They’ve co-written the book, in partnership with Sam Willmott, to the musical Bhangin’ It (2019 Richard Rodgers Award, upcoming at La Jolla Playhouse and McCarter Theater). Additional honors: NYFA Fellow, Colt Coeur Company member, HBO Access Fellow, Lilly Award (Stacey Mindich “Go Write a Play”), Tofte Lake Emrging Writers Residency, EST Sloan Commission, a John Golden Award, Leopold Schepp Fellowship, Ma-Yi Writers Lab Member and Co-Director (2006-2016), Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin Writers Group Member (2014-2017) and a TCG/New Georges Fellowship. MFA: Columbia University; BFA: NYU Tisch.

Stacey Rose hails from Elizabeth, NJ and Charlotte NC respectively. Her work has been presented at: The Fire This Time Festival, The Lark, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, National Black Theatre, Pillsbury House Theater, Barrington Stage Company, and Kansas City Rep. Stacey has held fellowships/residencies with The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights' Center, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Goodman Theatre, The Civilians, and Tofte Lake Center. She had two plays featured on the 2019 Kilroys list, with a third listed as an honorable mention. Her play Legacy Land was on the 2020 Kilroys list.  Stacey is a recipient of a 2019 Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Women's Commissioning Grant in partnership with Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and a 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation commission in partnership with Manhattan Theatre Club.  She is currently a staff writer for 9-1-1 on Fox. Stacey's work celebrates and explores Blackness, Black identity, Black history, body politics, and the dilemma of life as the “other.”

Logan Vaughn is a New York based Artist and Director of new work. In 2008 Logan was awarded the Goodman Theater's prestigious Joyce Arts Fellowship in Casting and subsequently worked as a Casting Director in the Tony Award winning theaters' casting department for five seasons. In addition to the Goodman she has cast for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory, Cardinal Stage and Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival. Logan was Playwrights Horizons Director in Residence 2012-2013. In 2012 Logan was also named a Member of the Director's Lab, Lincoln Center. As a Director she has worked with The Public Theater, MCC Theater, Sundance, Kansas City Rep Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Apollo Theater, Geva Theatre, Playwrights' Center, The Playwrights Realm, Mosaic Theatre, 59E59, National Black Theatre and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her work in film includes assisting the Academy Award winning producing team behind Precious and Monster's Ball as well as serving as head of casting for several award winning independents. Logan received a 2019 Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Direction of a Play for the New York premiere of Loy A. Webb's The Light at MCC Theater. And most recently directed the World Premiere of Legacy Land (The Kilroys List 2020) by Stacey Rose at Kansas City Repertory Theater. Logan is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Acting at UMKC and the Associate Artistic Director of Ojai Playwrights Conference. In television she has shadowed for HBO, the FOX Network (APB) and the Paramount Network (WACO Mini-Series). Logan trained professionally as a dancer for fifteen years with various companies including Gus Giordano and Visceral Dance. She has a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Film from Columbia College Chicago and has been featured in national and international publications including Glamour, Essence, Lucky and Globetrotter Magazine.

Adrienne Campbell-Holt is the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. She is the recipient of the 2018 Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award.  Current/Upcoming: world premiere: Other World, by Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen & Ann McNamee, choreography by Karla Puno Garcia (Bucks County Playhouse). Adrienne is currently developing new plays with Oscar Olivo, Lily Padilla, Antoinette Nwandu, and Rick Cleveland. Recent: NY premiere of Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector (Colt Coeur), world premiere of We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber (City Theater, Pittsburgh), world premiere of Hatefuck, by Rehana Lew Mirza (WP/Colt Coeur), world premiere of Joan by Stephen Belber (Colt Coeur, starring Johanna Day), Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck at Primary Stages (November-December 2018; starring Tyne Daly and Tim Daly), Associate Director on Dear Evan Hansen, directed by Michael Greif (Broadway), world premiere of Zürich by Amelia Roper (Colt Coeur @ NYTW), world premiere of Thirst by C. A. Johnson (CATF), Afterwords, a new musical by Zoe Sarnak and Emily Kaczmarek, What We're Up Against by Theresa Rebeck (WP Theater), New York Indie Theater Film Festival screening of Henry + the trains, (January 2017), world premiere of Christopher G. Nuñez's The Surgeon and her Daughters (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), world premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s The Nest (Denver Theatre Company), world premiere of Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur), world premiere of Greg Moss’ REUNION (South Coast Rep), world premiere of Eliza Clark's Recall (Colt Coeur), and world premiere of Steven Levenson's Seven Minutes in Heaven (Colt Coeur). Adrienne is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and the director of #MakeItFair.

“I think you were so busy looking for a riot that you missed the gathering of the grieving. I think you were so busy looking for looters that you missed the lament and heartbreak of a community. I think you were so busy looking for trouble that you missed the tragedy of systemic racialized trauma on the bodies of black and brown people. Tonight, tomorrow, and even the next day I beg of you, look again. Look again.”

Rev. Dr. Ron Bell

EUREKA DAY RETURNS FOR ONE-NIGHT ONLY CHARITY READING MAY 22!

PRESENTED BY PLAY PER-VIEW

“Eureka Day,” is so brilliantly yoked to the current American moment—its flighty politics, its deadly folly—that it makes you want to jump out of your skin.
-Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker

“Eureka Day,” is not only one of the funniest plays to open this year, it is one of the saddest.
 -Ben Brantley, New York Times

On Friday May 22nd at 8:00pm, Play-PerView will reunite the original Off-Broadway company of Jonathan Spector’s Eureka Day under the direction of Adrienne Campbell-Holt, following its extended sold-out run last summer.  Featuring Tina Benko (“New Amsterdam,” Scenes from a Marriage, Top Girls), Elizabeth Carter, KK Moggie (Passage, Daphne’s Dive), Thomas Jay Ryan (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Crucible), and Brian Wiles (“Manifest,” “Billions”). 

In Eureka Day, Carina has just enrolled her son at Eureka Day School in Berkeley, CA, where all decisions are made by consensus, diversity and inclusion are valued, and vaccinations are a matter of personal choice.  As a freshman member of the private school’s board of directors, she is thrown into the deep end when a mumps outbreak hits the school, forcing parents to choose between their own personal beliefs and what’s best for the community. 

This reading, presented by special arrangement with Sonia Friedman Productions and Dramatists Play Service, will benefit Colt Coeur and No Kid Hungry. The online event is ticketed with access starting at $5 and available at play-perview.com.

EUREKA DAY premiered at Aurora Theater in Berkeley, CA in April 2018, where it received all of the region’s new play awards: Glickman Award, Theatre Bay Area Award, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award, and Rella Lossy Award.

10th Annual FREE Theatre Intensive moves ONLINE!

HERE’S A TASTE OF OUR FIRST SESSION!

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR FINAL SHARING ON SATURDAY, MAY 23RD AT 6:30PM EST.
Click here to RSVP for the free final presentation.

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Calling all students between ages 9 and 15!

With this week's announcement that NYC public schools will not be taking the scheduled April spring break holiday - we are shifting our dates.
Since we are now holding the program online - we are opening it up to students all over the world!

Our FREE program will now be held virtually on 6 Saturdays:
April 18th
April 25th
May 2nd
May 9th
May 16th
May 23rd (presentation)!

There is no cost to participate however you must commit to being present for all 6 sessions.
Submit this application by April 10th, 2020 to join in on the fun!

WHO: Students ages 10-15 who have an interest in creating original plays are invited to participate.
WHAT: In this 6-day workshop, students will work with professional actors, playwrights, directors and designers to conceive and create original short plays that highlight their creativity, and uplift their stories.
WHEN: Camp is in session during 4-6pm EST on Saturdays April 18th - May 16th with a final performance (ONLINE) on Saturday, April 23rd 2020. The performance begins promptly at 6:30pm. More than 2 absences will result in termination from your participation in the camp.
WHERE: ONLINE.
HOW MUCH: FREE!!

If you have any questions please contact Vanessa at cocoplaymaking@gmail.com or at 718.986.8268

** We also offer alumni of our program ages 16+ the opportunity to be PAID student leaders. Email cocoplaymaking@gmail.com if you're interested in applying to be a student leader.

Please click here to learn more and apply!

Our response to these scary times...

Like you, we are hunkering down at home.

Like you, our understanding of what the next days, weeks, and months will hold, changes moment to moment.

I appreciated Alexis Soloski’s piece from yesterday’s New York Times: the reminder that theater “can ask us to think and feel beyond the confines of our own experience and find fellow-feeling, immediately and intimately, with those around us.”

I am reminded of a few lines from our mission statement:

WE STRIVE TO CREATE GREAT HAPPENINGS IN SMALL ROOMS, THEATER AS CLOSE AS A WHISPER IN YOUR EAR OR A STRANGER’S HAND BRUSHING YOURS.  INTIMACY IS OUR WAY IN.

We are thinking about what theater during this new reality looks and feels like. We know we must not gather in person. But we are thinking about how we may able to connect with you remotely.

I also wanted to share a powerful post from playwright-director Morgan Gould, that really speaks to how I’m feeling:

“I know that in the midst of everything – a quarantine, school cancellations, gatherings of only 10 people or less, I know people are reading books. Listening to music. Telling stories. Watching television. I know art matters because in the end, it will be all we have. We won’t have careers. All of that is temporary. We will just have what’s left. The actual stories. I think my role as a theater artist is to adapt to whatever mechanism I have to tell stories. If it’s not a giant festival, it can be a living room. It might not be a stage with insane production design. It might be around a campfire (as Anne Washburn predicted!). But it’s my job to bring hope and tenderness and humanity to a cruel and impossibly scary world. It’s all I can do. In the best scenario, perhaps that ER nurse comes home and puts her feet up and watches something I’ve made and her mind can rest for just a minute before she goes out again to save the world.”
- Morgan Gould

For the time being, we are postponing the world premiere production of Polylogues, created and performed by Xandra Nur Clark, directed by Molly Clifford, originally slated for a April 16-May 9, 2020 run. We are planning to share a snippet of the piece on Monday, March 23rd, (on what was to have been the first day of rehearsal). Please follow us on IG as we go live at 8pm EST, March 23rd with Xandra Nur Clark.

Additionally, we are currently exploring the possibility of shifting our 10th Annual FREE Education Initiative THEATER CAMP for NYC public school students ages 10-15 online. Please click here if you’re interested in participating; or share with a family/friend who may be interested.

Finally, please consider supporting our work during this challenging time. We are committed to continuing to pay the artists & administrators we collaborate with who have been directly and indirectly impacted by Covid-19.

THANK YOU FOR READING.

LET’S TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER.

Best,

Adrienne & Colt Coeur

10th Anniversary Benefit Bash - tickets on sale!

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT FOR OUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY BASH!

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Join us for an intimate evening honoring Founding Board member Celia Keenan-Bolger
at a spectacular NoHo loft as we celebrate our 10th season!

Monday, February 3rd 7pm
Drinks & Nosh
Live music
Raffle & Auction at 8:30pm

Mingle with CoCo Artists from the past, present & future!

Click here for more information and to purchase tickets & digital ads.

Click here to check out the incredible online auction - closes Monday, February 3rd!

Special thanks to our Benefit Committee:
Kyle Beltran & Adam Chanler-Berat, Laura Benanti, Meg Campbell, RoAnn Costin, Gavin Creel, Ato Essandoh, Gideon Glick, Michael Greif, Cherry Jones, Julia Jones, Roberta Kelly, Steven Levenson, Alex Marrs, Krystle Mobayeni, Will Pullen, Kate Cullen Roberts, Erica Rotstein, Aaron Schildkrout & AJ Strasser

2019 was epic. Let's make 2020 even more extraordinary!

In 2019 Colt Coeur produced:

2 world premieres (Joan & Hatefuck)
1 East Coast premiere (sold-out run of Eureka Day)
9th Annual free theater intensive for NYC public school students
5th Annual Parity Plays Fest celebrating female, trans & gnc playwrights & directors
4th Annual company retreat
2nd annual CoCo Residency program for 6 exciting playwrights & directors
Development of our ongoing new play commissions (2)

And we don’t even have any full-time staff!!

We make theater that pulls you close and doesn’t let go.
We need your help.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE TODAY.