| Colt Coeur Kicks-Off 2017-2018 Season with Special Benefit on October 16 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 01:45 pm EDT 10/13/17 | |
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| COLT COEUR Under the Artistic Direction of Adrienne Campbell-Holt Kicks-Off 2017-2018 Season With Special Benefit Monday, October 16 Hosted by Tony Award-nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger And Ato Essandoh of Django Unchained With Special Performances by Kristolyn Lloyd & Colton Ryan from Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen And Kathryn Gallagher from the 2015 Revival of Spring Awakening Colt Coeur, the Brooklyn-based theater company founded in 2010, will celebrate the start of its 2017-2018 season with a benefit event hosted by Tony Award-nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger and Ato Essandoh of the Academy Award winning film Django Unchained. In addition, the evening will feature special performance by Kathryn Gallagher (2015 Broadway revival of Spring Awakening), Kristolyn Lloyd (Dear Evan Hansen), and Colton Ryan (Dear Evan Hansen). This special evening will benefit the company’s 2017-2018 program, which includes the company’s ninth world premiere (in special partnership with New York Theater Workshop’s inaugural Next Door Series), its second commission (to playwright Antoinette Nwandu), its first partnership with the WP Theater for their fourth annual Parity Plays Festival, and the launch of the CoCo Residents program to benefit six playwrights and directors. The 2017-2018 Season Kick-Off will take place Monday, October 16, 2017, from 7pm to 10pm at in an intimate loft space located at 1 Main Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For tickets to the kick-off please visit https://www.artful.ly/store/events/13480, and for more information about Colt Coeur and the upcoming season please visit www.coltcoeur.org Commissioned Playwright 2017-2019: Antoinette Nwandu 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. Colt Coeur’s 10th world premiere (2018): 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. ----- PARITY PLAYS Reading Series This year, Colt Coeur is partnering with the WP (Women's Project) Theater for their annual Parity Plays Festival celebrating the work of female and trans playwrights and directors. This exciting feastival, now it its fourth year, will take place from November 13-20, 2017 at the McGinn-Cazale Theater. In the spirit of promoting opportunities for female and trans playwrights and directors Colt Coeur's annual Parity Plays Festival features four public readings of new plays. Inspired in part by advocacy groups including #MakeItFair, The Kilroys and The Lilly Awards, Colt Coeur is committed to gender parity in programming, staffing, and representation within narratives. Featured Readings: Hatefuck by Rehana Lew Mirza Directed by Pirronne Yousefzadeh Monday, November 13th, 3pm God Said This by Leah Nanako Winkler Directed by Morgan Gould Thursday, November 16th, 3pm Perry Street by Lucy Thurber Sunday, November 19th 7pm Le Jete by Catherine Yu Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt Monday, November 20th, 7pm Stay tuned for more details regarding casting! #ParityPlaysFest ----- 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 forBhangin' 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 forParticles of Pakistan; La Jolla Playhouse for The Colonialism Trilogy (w/ Mike Lew); NYSCA/Lark forSoldier 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. For more details on all of our programming, check out coltcoeur.org. |
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