Colt Coeur Sets 6th Season

Colt Coeur Artistic Director Adrienne Campbell-Holt and Managing Director Amy Ashton announce the company's 6th season. The 2015-2016 season will include World Premieres by MJ Kaufman and William Francis Hoffman. While Colt Coeur spends the year developing plays and creating innovative initiatives, this is the first time they will be presenting a two-play season.

Other programming for Colt Coeur this season will include the 2nd Annual #ParityPlaysFest initiative celebrating 3 new works by female and transgender playwrights and directors, the Play Hotel series featuring free public presentations of 3 additional new plays, continued development of its first-ever commission by playwright Amelia Roper, and its 6th Annual Education Initiative for Brooklyn public school students ages 11 to 15. This season's first play of the season is its first collaboration with transgender playwright MJ Kaufman.

As in past years the company has continued its tradition of crowd-sourced fundraising through Kickstarter. This year's video features Colt Coeur fans including Taye Diggs, Tim Daly, Julia Jones and Adam Greenfield and can be accessed here.

The Colt Coeur 2015-2016 Season opens with:

How to Live on Earth (World Premiere)

Written by MJ Kaufman; Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt

September 13th - October 3rd, 2015

Playing at HERE (145 6th Avenue, NY, NY)

How to Live on Earth is a haunting new play about our unrelenting obsession with the next frontier and the desire to give your life for something greater than yourself. Inspired in part by the Mars One project to colonize Mars by 2025 - this piece is a funny, wry, and deeply truthful portrait of the fears and hopes that drive us towards exploration and expansion.

Four individuals will be chosen for the one-way mission of a lifetime. The only catch: they can't come back. As applicants compete, they wrestle with what this means for their families, partners, and finally, themselves. What does it mean to leave Earth forever and what happens if you don't get to go after you've already said goodbye? How to Live on Earthis a play about space, bonds, creature comforts, and the vast expanses within us.

MJ Kaufman is a playwright whose work explores themes of gender, sexuality, identity, cultural versus blood ancestry, and insider/outsider dynamics. While their past work has often explored questions of history, landscapes, and loss, this play examines explorer narratives and the drive for expansion in the future. Their work has been seen at the Huntington Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, Yale School of Drama, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Aurora Theater, Crowded Fire, Fresh Ink Theatre, New Harmony Project and performed in Russian in Moscow. They have received awards and commissions from the Program for Women in Theater, the Playwrights Foundation, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Young Playwrights Inc., and the Huntington Theatre, where they are also a playwriting fellow. MJ received the 2013 ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting, the 2013 Global Age Project Prize, and the 2010 Jane Chambers Prize in Feminist Theatre. MJ is currently a member of the Clubbed Thumb Emerging Writers Group, The Falcons, an Audrey Resident at New Georges and a Resident Artist at The Drama League. Originally from Portland, Oregon, MJ attended Wesleyan University and recently received an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. MJ is a trans-identified playwright who prefers pronouns they or he.

Adrienne Campbell-Holt is the Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. Upcoming: world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's The Nest (Denver Theatre Company), One Child Born (Oberon at American Repertory Theater), and the world premiere of Cal in Camo (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater/Colt Coeur). Recent: Dental Society Midwinter Meeting by Laura Jacqmin at Williamstown Theater Festival (Foeller Fellowship), World Premiere of Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur @ HERE, NYC), Red starring Tim Daly (Dorset Theater Festival, VT), World Premiere of Greg Moss' REUNION (South Coast Rep), World Premiere of Everything is Ours by Nikole Beckwith (Colt Coeur @ HERE), Recall (Colt Coeur @ Wild Project), Flu Season (American Conservatory Theater, SF), Fish Eye (Colt Coeur @ HERE), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Yale), Dead Man's Cell Phone (NYU), Seven Minutes in Heaven (Emerging America Festival, Huntington Theatre Company and Colt Coeur @ HERE). She is a Time Warner/Women's Project Lab 2014-2016 Fellow, a recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship, the EST/Sloan grant, an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist and Audrey Resident. She has developed work with La Jolla Playhouse, Roundabout Underground, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick, Women's Project Theater, New Georges, and EST. She is also the director of #makeitfair. BA Barnard College, Columbia University.

Colt Coeur's 6th Season will continue with:

Cal in Camo (World Premiere)

Co-Production with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Written by William Francis Hoffman; Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt

April 23rd - June 4th, 2016

Playing at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (224 Waverly Pl)

Cal's worst fear about motherhood has come true and in a desperate attempt to understand her present she summons her only connection to a long lost past.

William Francis Hoffman (Playwright) was born and raised in St. Louis Missouri. He was a one time member of the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago Illinois and is a current member of the Actor's Gym in Los Angeles California

Other Programming!

2nd Annual #ParityPlaysFest
September 22-23, 2015 at HERE (145 6th Avenue)
For the past two years The Kilroys solicited nominations from over 300 theatre professionals, (primarily artistic directors and literary managers), for their favorite new plays by female-identified playwrights. In June they published The List -- the top 53 of these plays. In the same spirit of promoting opportunities for female and trans artists, Colt Coeur will produce three public readings of new plays by female-identified playwrights to coincide with the run of How to Live on Earth, by MJ Kaufman, who's play Sagitarrius Ponderosa was selected for The List this year.

Ticket Information
How to Live on Earthplays at HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, between Spring and Broome. Tickets are $18 general admission and may be purchased at www.here.org or by phoning 212.352.3101.

For more information, visit www.coltcoeur.org.