Seven Minutes in Heaven Benefit Reading, June 3rd

Our next Play Hotel is:

Dental Society Midwinter Meeting
By Laura Jacqmin
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt

Monday, May 20^th at 3pm

At TheaterLab, 357 West 36^th Street, 3^rd Floor.

With: 
Katya Campbell, Adam Harrington, Sue Jean Kim, 
Hubert Point-Dujour, Kate Cullen Roberts & Matt Stadelmann

Following a scandal of molar-sized proportions, the North Shore Regional Dental Society has gathered to debate the future of Midwestern dentistry as they know it. After NSRDS president Morris J. Morris, Jr., is caught with his pants down – and his dental drill up – the dentists can’t help but question: in a field obsessed with profit over health, where morality has taken a backseat to the latest fads in composite fillings, how can a group of upright dental professionals (looking for something more… filling) actually make a difference?

Colt Coeur, an artists’ ensemble, collaboratively creates theater from the ground up.  Founded in 2010, Colt Coeur has created and produced 3 world-premieres: Seven Minutes in Heaven, together as a company with playwright Steven Levenson; Fish Eye, with playwright Lucas Kavner, and Recall, by Eliza Clark.  

Laura Jacqmin was the winner of the 2008 Wasserstein Prize for And when we awoke there was light and light (Winner, 2013 Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen Award). Plays include January Joiner (Long Wharf Theatre), Ski Dubai (Steppenwolf Theatre), Two Lakes, Two Rivers (O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency), Look, We Are Breathing (Sundance Theater Lab) and Dental Society Midwinter Meeting (Chicago Dramatists/At Play, remounted 16^th Street Theater and Theater on the Lake). Her short play Hero Dad (a finalist for the 2012 Heideman Award) premiered in the 2012 Humana Festival of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She was the 2012 Faith Broome playwright in residence at University of Oklahoma. Commissions: South Coast Rep, Goodman Theatre, Arden Theater Company, InterAct Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater/NNPN, and Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science & Technology Project. BA Yale University; MFA Ohio University.

Adrienne Campbell-Holt is the Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. Upcoming: Theresa Rebeck’s The Scene (Dorset Theatre Festival). Recent directing/choreography credits include: Greg Moss’Reunion (South Coast Rep Pacific Playwrights’ Festival) Everything is Ours (Chautauqua),RECALL (Colt Coeur/Wild Project), Church (Harbor Stage), Will Eno’s The Flu Season (ACT),Fish Eye (Colt Coeur/HERE), Mormons… (Barrington Stage), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot(Yale), Dead Man’s Cell Phone (NYU), Seven Minutes in Heaven (Emerging America Festival& HERE), Heart Torture Station (New Georges), Missed Connections (Ars Nova), One Child Born(Joe’s Pub), The Long Tail (Abrons Arts Center), and Three Days of Rain (Fort Worth, Texas).  Recent recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship and the EST/Sloan grant, Adrienne is a New Georges Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. BA Barnard College, Columbia University.

The reading is free however seating is limited.  RSVP to coltcoeur@gmail.com by May 19^th.

CELIA KEENAN-BOLGER AND JULIA JONES
TO HOST COLT COEUR’S 3^RD ANNUAL
CELEBRATION OF PLAY-MAKING WORKSHOP
WITH BROOKLYN TEENAGERS

AT ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE

FRIDAY, MARCH 29^TH AT 6:30PM

Celia Keenan-Bolger (PETER AND THE STARCATCHER) and Julia Jones  (TWILIGHT films) will join Adrienne Campbell-Holt (RECALL, FISH EYE), Matt Stadelmann (SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN) and other Colt Coeur company members in a performance of new plays by Brooklyn students ages 10 to 16. The event is the culmination of Colt Coeur’s week-long theatre intensive offered free-of-charge to public school students. The evening will take place at St. Ann’s Warehouse at 29 Jay Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn and will begin with a reception at 6:30pm, followed by a 7pm performance. The event is free and open to the public.

Colt Coeur, an artists’ ensemble, collaboratively creates theater from the ground up. Founded in 2010, Colt Coeur has created and produced 3 world-premieres: Seven Minutes in Heaven, together as a company with playwright Steven Levenson; Fish Eye, with playwright Lucas Kavner, and Recall, by Eliza Clark.

Colt Coeur mission:
We contemplate questions that inspire us and devise theatrical pieces which respond to and engage with the world in which we live.  We address the ambivalence, terror and exhilaration of our age on the scale of person-to-person and moment-to-moment through theater that utilizes a simplicity of means to achieve richness of expression. 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.

Educational programming is personal for us, because we also attended under resourced urban schools and free community arts programs were our lifeline.  From our free workshops to our full scale productions offered at low-ticket prices, we nurture the next generation of theater artists and attract diverse audiences. We forge an ongoing community dialogue through our Play Hotel series of workshops, open rehearsals, & free readings.

RSVP to coltcoeur@gmail.com.

To purchase the 2013 Collection of Plays please click here.

COLT COEUR TO READ NIKOLE BECKWITH’S

EVERYTHING IS OURS

MONDAY, MARCH 18^TH AT 7:15PM

Dorothy Berwin and Colt Coeur’s Play Hotel reading series will present an industry reading of Nikole Beckwith’s Everything is Ours on Monday, March 18th at 7:15pm at 115 W. 45^th Street (11^th Floor) in Manhattan.  Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Recall, Fish Eye, Seven Minutes in Heaven), the cast includes Molly Bernard (The Philadelphia Story, Chautauqua), Melody Butiu (Here Lies Love, Public), Katya Campbell (The Big Knife, Broadway), W. Tre Davis, Adam Harrington (HIT-LIT, Queens Theater), Rachel Resheff (The Big Meal, Playwrights Horizons), Kate Roberts (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Broadway), and Joe Tippett (Fish Eye, Seven Minutes in Heaven, Colt Coeur).

Everything is Ours is an ultra-contemporary upstairs-downstairs comedy of manners— Wes Anderson meets Christopher Durang… It is also a love story that deals with how people, especially women, are defined by having or not having children. And it is uproariously funny.

Colt Coeur, an artists’ ensemble, collaboratively creates theater from the ground up.  Founded in 2010, Colt Coeur has created and produced 3 world-premieres: Seven Minutes in Heaven, together as a company with playwright Steven Levenson; Fish Eye, with playwright Lucas Kavner, and Recall, by Eliza Clark.  

Nikole Beckwith’s plays have been read and performed with Ensemble Studio Theater, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Barrow Street Theater, 3LD, The Flea, Lesser America and the  Old Vic in London. She is an alum of EST’s Youngblood, a former associate artist of Atlantic Center for the Arts and a 2010/2011 member of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. Her first play Everything is Ours was a finalist for the 2011 National Playwrights Conference and was part of Chautauqua Theater Company’s New Play Workshop 2012 Signature Staged Reading Series, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt. Her newest play Stockholm, Pennsylvania recently finished a SuperLab with Playwrights Horizons & Clubbed Thumb directed by Jo Bonney, and her screenplay adaptation of the script garnered her a 2012 Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, awarded by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and made the 2012 Black List of best (as of yet) unproduced screenplays. She started off 2013 as the first non-UK playwright to be given a writing attachment at The National Theatre Studio in London, where she is developing new work.

Adrienne Campbell-Holt is the Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. Upcoming: Greg Moss’ Reunion (South Coast Rep Pacific Playwrights’ Festival workshop), Theresa Rebeck’s The Scene (Dorset Theatre Festival). Recent directing/choreography credits include: Everything is Ours (Chautauqua ), RECALL (Colt Coeur/Wild Project), Church (Harbor Stage), Will Eno’s The Flu Season (ACT), Fish Eye (Colt Coeur/HERE), Mormons… (Barrington Stage), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Yale), Dead Man’s Cell Phone (NYU), Seven Minutes in Heaven (Emerging America Festival& HERE), Heart Torture Station (New Georges), Missed Connections (Ars Nova), One Child Born (Joe’s Pub), The Long Tail (Abrons Arts Center), and Three Days of Rain (Fort Worth, Texas).  Recent recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship and the EST/Sloan grant, Adrienne is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. BA Barnard College, Columbia University.

The reading is free however seating is limited.  RSVP to coltcoeur@gmail.com by March 15^th. For more information go to: www.coltcoeur.org. 

COLT COEUR TO READ JUSTIN KURITZKE’S

SENSUALITY PARTY

MONDAY, JANUARY 14TH AT 7PM

Colt Coeur’s Play Hotel reading series will present a site-specific staged reading of Justin Kuritzke’s Sensuality Party on Monday, January 14th at 7pm at a private residence in Tribeca.  Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Recall, Fish Eye, Seven Minutes in Heaven), the cast includes Lily Garrison (A Thought In Three Parts), Louisa Krause (The Flick), Drigan Lee (Six Degrees of Separation), Gayle Rankin (TRIBES), Cameron Scoggins (The Big Meal), and Matt Stadelmann (Seven Minutes in Heaven).

 The Sensuality Party explores the ramifications of an orgy between a small group of friends on a college campus. A night that begins somewhere between a dare and a lark moves quickly from indulgence to danger to irreversible consequence. With a nod to the events of September 11th and the Occupy Movement, The Sensuality Party takes a blunt look at our culture’s obsession with pleasure, pain and the blurry spaces in between. 

Colt Coeur (Recall, Fish Eye, Seven Minutes in Heaven) is a NY-based ensemble of actors, designers, playwrights and directors dedicated to making original, story-driven, aggressively visceral theater.  Play Hotel is Colt Coeur’s ongoing reading series, and their principal arena for developing new work.  They are currently developing projects with Eliza Clark, Matt Friedberger, Max Posner, Steven Levenson, and Caleb Scott. Previous Play Hotel readings have included: Adam Bock’s Marcy Comes Homes, Jesse Weaver’s We Shall Catch Larks and Alena Smith’s Plucker. 

Justin Kuritzkes’ plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, New Orleans, and Providence. He is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, and a finalist for Ars Nova’s 2013 Play Group. Justin’s work has been featured in festivals and contests across the country, including: The New York International Fringe Festival (As the Boat Approaches), the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One Act Play Contest (An Autobiography About My Brother), the Young Playwrights Inc. National Playwriting Competition (Autobiography), the California Young Playwrights Contest (Hawaii), and the Blank Theater Company Young Playwrights Festival (Death and Taxes). He is a member of The Collectin, a Los Angeles/New York based company of writers, directors, and actors with whom he has directed his plays The Sensuality Party and As the Boat Approaches. His play Growth was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in 2011. A collection of his short plays, Trivia About Unimportant People and Other Plays, was presented at the 45^th Street Theater and An Autobiography About My Brother was recently published in the University of New Orleans’ Bayou Magazine. A graduate of Brown University, Justin earned his B.A. in both Philosophy and Literary Arts and studied playwriting with Gregory Moss, Lisa D’Amour, and Erik Ehn. In addition to writing and directing plays, he also acts and performs improv. Justin was born in Los Angeles and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Adrienne Campbell-Holt is the Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. Recent directing/choreography credits include: Everything is Ours (Chautauqua ), RECALL (Colt Coeur/Wild Project), Church (Harbor Stage), Will Eno’s The Flu Season (ACT), Fish Eye (Colt Coeur/HERE), Mormons… (Barrington Stage), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Yale), Dead Man’s Cell Phone (NYU), Seven Minutes in Heaven (Emerging America Festival& HERE), Heart Torture Station (New Georges), Missed Connections (Ars Nova), One Child Born (Joe’s Pub), The Long Tail (Abrons Arts Center), and Three Days of Rain (Fort Worth, Texas).  Recent recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship and the EST/Sloan grant, Adrienne is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. BA Barnard College, Columbia University.

The reading is free however seating is limited.  RSVP to CCPlayHotel@gmail.com by Friday, January 13^th to receive all the details on this special event. For more information go to: www.coltcoeur.org. 

COLT COEUR TO READ JESSE WEAVER’S

WE SHALL CATCH LARKS

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12^TH AT 7PM

Colt Coeur’s Play Hotel reading series will present a staged reading of Jesse Weaver’s We Shall Catch Larks on Monday, November 12^th at 7pm at the CoCo Studio in NYC.  Directed by Stella Powell-Jones, the cast features Geraldine Hughes (Cyrano, Translations, Gran Torino, Rocky Balboa), Matt Stadelmann (American Sligo, Seven Minutes in Heaven), and Joe Tippett (Fish Eye).

Play Hotel is Colt Coeur’s ongoing reading series, and our principal arena for developing new work.  We are currently developing projects with Nikole Beckwith, Eliza Clark, Matt Friedberger, Steven Levenson, and Caleb Scott. Previous Play Hotel readings have included: Adam Bock’s Marcy Comes Homes, Max Posner’s The Thing About Air Travel, and Alena Smith’s Plucker. 

Jesse Weaver’s plays have been performed in Chicago, Dublin & London. Chicago writing credits include Third Appointment, Rosenthal Trio and RUN HOME TEDDY (all Collaboration ‘Sketch Fest), 46A  and Do With You (Estrogen Fest, 2007); Selective Service and the Art of Acorn Chance (Breadline Theatre Company, 2004); Sweet Pretty Love Jam, Up, Pardonable, The Artist Needs a Wife, The Float (all the side project theatre company).Dublin writing credits include: Bypass (Painted Filly Theatre Co., 2012), Rainout (Fishamble Theatre Co., ‘Tiny Plays for Ireland, 2012), Do With You,Bill and Fran, Hydrophobia, and Up (all Painted Filly Theatre Co.) Painted Filly also produced his full-length play Biography of Bernie Ward in August 2007. UK writing credits: Mumah, (HighTide Theatre Festival, 2009) and Famine Diary (Reading, HighTide, 2010). His play Deathwatch Beetle was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theatre’s National Playwright Conference in 2011, and his play We Shall Catch Larks was recently named a finalist in the Yale University Press 2012 Drama Competition.

Stella Powell-Jones is a freelance director based in New York. Her work has been seen at Red Bull Theatre Co., The Flea, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Portland Center Stage, IRT & NYU/TISCH. Credits include The True Drug Stories of Jim Simpson, The Naked Side of Grace: the Final Concert of Grace Fullest & Violet Tendencies, Bill and Lenny, Bulfinch Mythology, Third Wave Fems, The Gnadiges Fraulein. Most recently she directed a workshop of We Shall Catch Larks for Painted Filly Theatre Co., in Dublin, Ireland. She is a creative consultant for New York City Opera. Upcoming: a workshop of Stephanie DiMaggio & Anton Dudley’s The Orchard for Playwrights Realm.  

The reading is free however seating is limited.  RSVP to CCPlayHotel@gmail.com by Friday, November 9th^st. 
The CoCo Studio is located at 20 Jay Street, Suite M05, DUMBO, Brooklyn 11201.   For more information go to: www.coltcoeur.org.

COLT COEUR TO READ STEVEN LEVENSON’S

IMMORTALITY/TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH AT 7PM

Colt Coeur’s Play Hotel reading series will present a staged reading of Steven Levenson’s Immortality/Technology Project on Monday, September 24th at 7pm at the CoCo Studio in NYC.  Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Recall, Fish Eye, Seven Minutes in Heaven), the cast features Jocelyn Bioh (“Louie”), Katya Campbell (Recall), Ato Essandoh (Fish Eye, “Copper”), Erin Felgar (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Kate Cullen Roberts (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Caleb Scott (Recall), Matt Stadelmann (American Sligo, Seven Minutes in Heaven), and Joe Tippett (Fish Eye).

Steven Levenson’s plays include The Language of Trees (Roundabout Underground), Seven Minutes in Heaven (HERE Arts Center; Emerging America Festival/Huntington Theater Company), Retreat (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Almost Stuck, and Girls Day.  His play The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin will have its world premiere at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre in 2013.  His work has been seen and developed by Roundabout, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, MCC Theater, Ars Nova, Hartford Stage, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts.  A graduate of Brown University and the 2010 Artist in Residence at Ars Nova, Steven has received new play commissions from Roundabout, Lincoln Center, MCC, and Ars Nova.  He is a member of the MCC Playwrights’ Coalition, an alumnus of Ars Nova’s Play Group, and a founding member of Colt Coeur.  Steven is currently writing for the new CBS series Vegas.  Other current projects include the book for an original musical with Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.  

Adrienne Campbell-Holt is the Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. Recent directing/choreography credits include: Everything is Ours (Chautauqua ), RECALL (Colt Coeur/Wild Project), Church (Harbor Stage), Will Eno’s The Flu Season (ACT), Fish Eye (Colt Coeur/HERE), Mormons… (Barrington Stage), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Yale), Dead Man’s Cell Phone (NYU), Seven Minutes in Heaven (Emerging America Festival& HERE), Heart Torture Station (New Georges), Missed Connections (Ars Nova), One Child Born (Joe’s Pub), The Long Tail (Abrons Arts Center), and Three Days of Rain (Fort Worth, Texas).  Recent recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship and the EST/Sloan grant, is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. BA Barnard College, Columbia University.

The reading is free however seating is limited.  RSVP to CCPlayHotel@gmail.com by Friday, September 21^st. 
The CoCo Studio is located at 20 Jay Street, Suite M05, DUMBO, Brooklyn 11201.   For more information go to: www.coltcoeur.org.