Colt Coeur

Seven Minutes in Heaven Benefit Reading, June 3rd

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:27:20 -0400

Join Colt Coeur artists, collaborators and friends for a one-night-only reunion and celebrate as we announce Colt Coeur’s next production and launch our Kickstarter Campaign! Original cast members will reprise their roles and be joined by special guest star (and CoCo Board member) Celia Keenan-Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher & The Glass Menagerie, Broadway). Advance tickets are only $30 and available here.

Monday, June 3rd 6:30-9:30pm (reading at 7:15pm) at Hayden 5’s NoMad Loft in Manhattan. Benefit hosts are Julia Jones, Erica Rotstein & Aaron Schildkrout.

Our next Play Hotel is: Dental Society Midwinter MeetingBy Laura JacqminDirected by Adrienne...

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:05:00 -0400

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.

Don’t miss the one-night-only Benefit Reading of Steven...

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:05:00 -0400

Don’t miss the one-night-only Benefit Reading of Steven Levenson’s SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN featuring original cast members Teddy Bergman, Erin Felgar, Kate Roberts, Matt Stadelmann, and Joe Tippett plus special guest (2-time TONY nominee) Celia Keenan-Bolger.
Monday, June 3rd 6:30-9:30pm (reading at 7:15pm) at Hayden 5’s NoMad Loft in Manhattan. Benefit hosts are Julia Jones, Erica Rotstein & Aaron Schildkrout.
Limited advance tickets are $30. ($35 at the door.)

CELIA KEENAN-BOLGER AND JULIA JONES TO HOST COLT COEUR’S 3RD ANNUALCELEBRATION OF PLAY-MAKING...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400

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 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 18TH AT 7:15PM Dorothy...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:48:00 -0400

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.

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.

Over the past few weeks Colt Coeur has been visiting public...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:30:30 -0500

Over the past few weeks Colt Coeur has been visiting public schools all over Brooklyn and speaking to hundreds of young people. Despite our youth as a company, educational programming has been at the core of our efforts since the beginning. It is personal for us, as many of us attended under-resourced urban schools and free arts programs were our lifeline.

This year, we are thrilled to present the culminating performance of our 3rd Annual Play-making Workshop with students ages 10-15 at the legendary St. Ann’s Warehouse, across the street from our DUMBO studio. The event will take place Friday, March 29th at 6:30pm (reception) with a 7pm performance. The event is free however seating is limited. Email coltcoeur@gmail.com to make a reservation.

In order to offer this 5-day intensive entirely free-of-charge, we need to raise some funds. Here’s a sense of what it costs:
1 teaching artist for 1 week: $250 (We need at least 4!)
Lunch for 1 student for 1 week: $50 (We have at least 20 students!)
Props, costumes, ink cartridges, etc.: $300
Bare bones crew at St. Ann’s: $500

Please be generous and join me in supporting the next generation of theatre artists!

COLT COEUR TO READ JUSTIN KURITZKE’S SENSUALITY PARTY MONDAY, JANUARY 14TH AT 7PM Colt Coeur’s...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:18:00 -0500

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 video, december 2012. Shot & edited by Crystal...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 08:44:00 -0500

Colt Coeur video, december 2012.

Shot & edited by Crystal Arnette.

COLT COEUR TO READ JESSE WEAVER’S WE SHALL CATCH LARKS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH AT 7PM Colt Coeur’s...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:05:00 -0400

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.

Advance tickets are no longer available!You can purchase $50...

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:07:00 -0400

Advance tickets are no longer available!
You can purchase $50 tickets by cash or credit card at the door though.

Celebrity singers including:

Greg Hildreth (PETER AND THE STAR CATCHER)
Celia Keenan-Bolger (PETER AND THE STAR CATCHER)
Zak Resnick (MAMMA MIA)
Phoebe Strole (SPRING AWAKENING)
Taylor Trensch (BARE)
Alysha Umphress (AMERICAN IDIOT)
Ben Walker (BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON)
Libby Winters (AMERICAN IDIOT)

COLT COEUR TO READ STEVEN LEVENSON’S IMMORTALITY/TECHNOLOGY PROJECT MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH AT...

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:33:05 -0400

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.

Colt Coeur presents A panel discussion & talk-back on child/adolescent psychopathology following...

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:47:00 -0400

Colt Coeur presents

A panel discussion & talk-back on
child/adolescent psychopathology
following the Monday, July 2^nd performance of

RECALL
Performance at 7pm, Panel & Talk-back will commence at 8:30pm

Is there such a thing as a bad seed?

The panel will discuss psychological profiling, bullying, and “bad seeds,” as well as current treatment protocols for “callous-unemotional” children/teenagers. The creative team will also discuss sources of reference for the play including the West Memphis 3 case and Paradise Lost HBO documentary, as well as the Columbine school shooting. Panelists include members of the cast & creative team, as well as:

Dr. Richard Bock is a Clinical Psychologist who works with children and families in Manhattan. His approach to problems of Anti-Social behavior has been very much influenced by the writing of D.W. Winnicott, a British Psychoanalyst. He received his Ph.D. from the Clinical Psychology Program of New York University.

Toby Glick, MS is an educational consultant and the founder of ParentConfidante School Success Consulting. She helps parents find the best schools and services for children who have behavioral and learning issues. Toby is a School Psychologist and licensed Mental Health Counselor with over thirty years of experience evaluating children and counseling children, parents and school personnel. She has also served as the Chairperson for the Preschool Committee on Special Education which determines early intervention services for children with special needs.

Miriam Goodman is a licensed social worker, who graduated from NYU’s Silver School of Social Work. Miriam is currently the Clinical Director at Midtown Community Court where she oversees all clinical operations and alternative to incarceration programs. Miriam has employed a trauma-informed approach to all clinical operations. She was formerly the Women’s Specialist at Midtown Community Court where she developed a trauma-focused program, Women’s Independence Safety and Empowerment (WISE). Until September 2011, Miriam was a psychotherapist at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center where she worked with children and adults who are survivors of trauma. Miriam trained in the evidence-based practice and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, which is designed specifically for children who have experienced trauma.

Sandra R. Wolkoff, LCSW-R, is the former Director of the Marks Family Right from the Start 0-3+ Center, the early childhood mental health site of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, the largest children’s mental health center on Long Island. Ms. Wolkoff developed the Training and Consultation Services at the Center that included curricula for frontline professionals, educators and clinicians working with young children and their families developing a mental health consultation program for Head Start centers that was recognized nationally as a model of best practice. Ms. Wolkoff has presented to professionals throughout the country on risk factors in child development and the recognition of the impact of perinatal mood disorders on families. Former host of her Cablevision show, “Ages & Stages,” Ms. Wolkoff has been a columnist and has had her work published in professional journals, magazines and newspapers. In addition, Ms. Wolkoff is a member of the Academy of Fellows at Zero To Three, the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and their Parents, in Washington, DC. She is a board member of the NYC Zero to Three Network.

To purchase tickets to this, or any, performance of RECALL click here. RECALL runs through July 7th at the Wild Project.

A photo from the July 2nd, 2012 Panel:

Critics are raving about RECALL!

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:15:00 -0400

The New York Times says RECALL “deftly balances the humdrum and the horrific” and compares Eliza to Martin McDonough and Tarantino…

BACKSTAGE (Critic’s Pick) says, “In the vein of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, Clark’s play is very topical in our world of bullying and The Hunger Games… Colt Coeur continues its streak of grade-A downtown productions.”

Time Out New York (Critic’s Pick) reports, “Directed by Colt Coeur’s Adrienne Campbell-Holt with special sensitivity to degrees of abnormality, and performed by a bang-up cast, Clark’s thriller deploys clean naturalism in the service of a story that turns out to have Philip K. Dick on the brain.”

Theatermania says “Eliza Clark’s terribly intense and vividly imagined new play Recall, now at The Wild Project, is, unlike too much theatrical fare, not easily forgotten…Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt handles this rich terrain with aplomb and is aided by John McDermott’s simple yet evocative set and Grant Yeager’s astute lighting that brings each scene into focus. The stage may be small at Wild Project, but Clark and her collaborators have created a big world.”

Colt Coeur’s first ever trailer! Colt Coeur presents the...

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:15:00 -0400

Colt Coeur’s first ever trailer!

Colt Coeur presents the world premiere of

RECALL
by Eliza Clark
directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt

June 8th-July 7th at The Wild Project

Close your eyes and count to three.

Lucy’s a child, and a child’s a person, and people can do the ugliest things.
Charlotte’s an expert in ugly things. And the bloody, funny, terrible chase is on.

Radically imaginative and achingly plain, RECALL explores our need to feel connected, understood, and loved. No matter the damage, no matter the cost.

With: Katya Campbell, Owen Campbell, Jordyn DiNatale, Caleb Scott & Colleen Werthmann

Scenic design: John McDermott
Costume design: Paloma Young
Lighting design: Grant Yeager
Sound design: Amy Altadonna
Projection design: Aaron Rhyne
Property Master: Kate Foster
Technical director: Kyle Crose
Production stage manager: Amy Groeschel
Assistant director: Sarah Blush
Press Representative: Richard Kornberg & Associates
Produced by COLT COEUR, Stephen Stout & Bethany Heinrich (Associate)
Casting by Anne Davison

Tickets are $25 general admission and may be purchased here
or by calling 212.352.3101.
The Wild Project is located at 195 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10009.

Eliza Clark (Playwright) Eliza Clark’s plays have been developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, the Studio at Cherry Lane Theatre, Page 73 Productions, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Provincetown Playhouse, The New York International Fringe Festival, and Yale University. She received a commission from the Yale O’Neill Studio in 2006 and is currently working on a commission from South Coast Repertory. Eli was a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s emerging writers group, Youngblood, and was the 2010 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow. Her play EDGEWISE was co-produced by Page 73 and The Play Company in the winter of 2010 at SoHo Rep. Eli graduated from Yale University in 2007 and is currently living in Los Angeles where she wrote for Season One of AMC’s RUBICON, and just finished writing for Season Two of AMC’S THE KILLING.

Shot on location in Brooklyn. Video by Crystal Arnette.

The KICKSTARTER campaign is now live.

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:05:08 -0400

The KICKSTARTER campaign is now live. :

Special thanks to Eric Bogosian, Michael Chernus, Eliza Clark, Billy Crudup, Will Eno, Grace Gummer, Jessica Hecht, Greg Hildreth, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Sue Jean Kim, Jack O’Brien, Alex Timbers, and more for getting in on the action.

Want to go to our KICKSTARTER page? Click here.

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Want to go to our KICKSTARTER page? Click here.

a letter from RECALL playwright Eliza Clark

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:50:04 -0400

Dear Friends,

I want to introduce myself as this June, Colt Coeur will be mounting a production of my play, RECALL at The Wild Project in New York City. For the past year I have been writing for AMC’s Emmy-nominated mystery thriller, THE KILLING, as well as writing short films for directors Spencer Susser (HESHER) and Benjamin Millipied (choreographer of BLACK SWAN). Though I love television and movies, I’m thrilled to get back to my first and truest love. I’m deeply moved by Colt Coeur’s courage in tackling RECALL’s complex subject matter and inspired by the imagination and vision director Adrienne Campbell-Holt is already bringing to the project. We need your help though — please click on the ‘donate’ button in the upper right — and help us make this production a reality.

When I began writing RECALL, I was obsessed with serial killers and school shootings. If I were accused of murder, my Google history would be the prosecution’s most damning piece of evidence. In particular, I was interested in sociopathy and the pathology of a person who feels no guilt or remorse. I started to wonder if a person who feels no remorse really is human. RECALL takes this idea to an extreme: If we do not think of sociopaths as humans then what if there was a way to “recall” them before they hurt anyone? I’m also particularly fascinated by the way Americans often demonize children. The West Memphis Three case is a perfect example of “bad seed” mentality. Is there such a thing as a bad seed?

In other words, it’s a light, fun play and I think you’ll really enjoy yourself!
It is, actually, funny, I hope.

RECALL has been called a sci-fi play, which means that Adrienne and the entire team of brilliant actors and designers will collaborate to create a dazzling, ‘alternate present’ world— that will be weird and wildly imaginative and make you think and laugh and ask questions.

To do this, we need money. And we’re hoping you might be willing to help out with that. We need to raise $35,000—a lot I know—but I believe creating and producing mind-blowing live performance is a worthwhile cause. Colt Coeur is a 501(c)3 organization and all gifts are tax-deductible.

Thank you so much for your help! We hope you’ll come see the play in June!

Sincerely,

Eliza Clark

COLT COEUR TO READ ADAM BOCK’S MARCY COMES HOME TUESDAY, MARCH...

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:48:30 -0500

COLT COEUR TO READ ADAM BOCK’S

MARCY COMES HOME

TUESDAY, MARCH 13^TH AT 7PM

Colt Coeur’s Play Hotel reading series will present a staged reading of Adam Bock’s Marcy Comes Home on Tuesday, March 13th at 7pm at the CoCo Studio in NYC. Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Fish Eye, Seven Minutes in Heaven), the cast features Katya Campbell (Fish Eye), Erin Felgar (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Heidi Niedermeyer (Seven Minutes in Heaven), Gio Perez (The Language of Trees), Kate Cullen Roberts (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Debargo Sanyal (After), Matt Stadelmann (American Sligo, Seven Minutes in Heaven), and Joe Tippett (Fish Eye).

In Marcy Comes Home, homecomings are just as tough on the people who never left, and it turns out being a Hollywood starlet doesn’t teach you many real-life skills. This hilarious and irreverent comedy explores the coming-of-age of a generation, and explodes the notion that ‘coming home’ always feels good.

Adam Bock’s plays include Phaedra (Shotgun Players), A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination), book for We Have Always Lived in the Castle, with music by Todd Almond (Yale Rep), The Receptionist (MTC, 2008 Outer Critics nomination, Best Plays of 2007-2008, The Evidence Room with Megan Mullally), The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons, 2008 Outer Critics nomination), The Thugs (Soho Rep, 2007 OBIE Award for Playwriting), The Shaker Chair (2005 Humana Festival), Swimming In The Shallows (Shotgun Players, Second Stage Uptown, 2000 BATCC Award, Clauder Prize), Five Flights (Encore Theatre and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 2002 Glickman Award, ACTA nomination, Osborn nomination), and The Typographer’s Dream (Encore Theatre/Shotgun Players). Adam is the resident playwright at Encore Theatre, and a Shotgun Players Artistic Associate. He is a NEA grantee, a three-time resident at Yaddo, a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect, and a TDF Open Doors mentor. Adam’s plays are published by Samuel French, Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts, Inc. He is a proud member of New Dramatists.

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

We made Celia Keenan-Bolger's 'favorite theatergoing experiences' list!

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:09:30 -0500

We made Celia Keenan-Bolger's 'favorite theatergoing experiences' list!

a letter to you.

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:15:42 -0500

Dear Friend,

Only in the theater can you create something out of literally nothing. With your support – in just two years — Colt Coeur has been credited with “bringing sexy back to off-Broadway” (New York Magazine) and lauded by The New York Times with the broad recognition “these guys have chops.” The New York Post and Time Out have called our work “pitch perfect” and “wildly charming.” We’ve created two original plays in our uniquely collaborative style (Seven Minutes in Heavenby Steven Levenson and Fish Eye by Lucas Kavner), launched our free week-long Playmaking workshop for Brooklyn teenagers, and held public readings of a bevy of exciting new plays as part of our Play Hotel series. Thank you. For your support, for seeing a show, and for reading this letter.

For 2012 —we’re more ambitious than ever.  We are thrilled to announce RECALL by Eliza Clark (Edgewise, P73/Soho Rep and AMC’sThe Killing) as our Spring 2012 production, as well as the longer-term Immortality/Technology Project which we are currently developing with Steven Levenson.  Over the next few weeks we’ll embark on the first of several workshops with Steven and the entire Colt Coeur company in our DUMBO studio. We plan to mount the full production next fall—making 2012 Colt Coeur’s first 2-show year! With two successful years of programming under our belt we are finally eligible for many grants—and are hard at work applying for them—but we need your help making these goals a reality.

If you believe in the infinite potential of live theater to inspire compassion, humor, ferocity, and an unapologetic sense of wonder, please join me in making a gift today to our annual fund, and investing in the future of our company.  All gifts are tax-deductible and can be made online using a credit card or by mail.

Our growth would be completely impossible without your contributions.  Thank you in advance for your tremendous generosity. Wishing you and your loved ones a merry holiday season!

Sincerely,

Adrienne Campbell-Holt
Adrienne Campbell-Holt
Artistic Director

PS Just last week, our most recent production got a nod in New York Magazine’s annual wrap-up of the best downtown theatre of the year!