2011–12 Season
O Brave New World
The COTE Home & Garden Tour
Throughout the 2011-12 Season
Venues across the city — maybe your house?
Directed by Robert A. K. Gonyo
Developed by members of the COTE Ensemble, The COTE Home & Garden Tour is COTE's new initiative to create improvisation-based, responsive performances that take theatre out of the theater, and brings it home to you!
O Brave New World is the first show in the series — and we're available for performances this fall! How it works: 1) you host a party at your home and/or garden; 2) we come and perform at it. It's that simple!
Want to host a performance? E-mail us!
Ten Years Later: Voices of the Post-9/11 Generation Speak
A co-production with
Project Girl Performance Collective
Directed by
Ashley Marinaccio and Robert A. K. Gonyo
Assistant Directed/Stage Managed by
Daniel Mendoza
Produced by Jessica Greer Morris
September 10, 2011, 2:45pm
Michael Schimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Pace University
3 Spruce Street
New York, NY
September 12, 2011, 8pm
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
416 W. 42nd Street
New York, NY
Tickets available now
Saturday, September 17, 2011, 2pm
Ocean County Library
101 Washington Street
Toms River, NJ
Co-Op Theatre East and Project Girl Performance Collective present 10 Years Later: Voices of the Post-9/11 Generation Speak this September, commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
In this piece, company members explore what it means to be coming of age in a post-9/11 society. Ten Years Later holds a mirror up to a generation that has lived most of their lives in a post-9/11 world. Many of these young people have not lived in a time when the United States has been engaged in one or more wars.
Muzungu, by David Myers
A co-production with
Mixed Phoenix Theatre Group
Directed by
Robert A. K. Gonyo
Set Design by Joshua David Bishop
Lighting Design by Isabella F. Byrd
Stage Managed by Aaron Salley
October 14–30, 2011
Wednesdays–Saturdays at 8pm
Saturdays & Sundays at 2:30pm
The 4th Street Theater
83 E. 4th Street
New York, NY
Muzungu chronicles an American aid worker's journey to present-day Rwanda. Arriving with aspirations of making a difference, he leaves transformed far beyond expectation through his relationship with Mattie, a local masseuse.
Read a review from Vicki's Menu
Read a review from nytheatre.com
Read a commentary from The Nice Feminist
Listen to an interview with the cast and director of Muzungu on Go See a Show!
Radio COTE
Sunday, November 13, 2011 @ 6:30pm
Looking Glass Theatre
422 W. 57th Street
New York, NY
After the success of last year's edition, Co-Op Theatre East brings Radio COTE back this season with all new plays commissioned from four members of the COTE Ensemble!
Each has been taked to write a 10-minute radio play, starting from the theme of "revisionist current events." For example: what if politicians came clean and told the truth? What if the nuclear accident at Fukushima had been even more disastrously catastrophic? What if protestors incorporated? The results as examined in these plays may not be what you'd expect...
Presented live will be world premieres from Casey Cleverly, Ashley Marinaccio, Robert A. K. Gonyo and Tyrus Holden — and throughout the season, we will release the plays in "radio-play" format via podcasts!
COTE's Custom Murder Mystery Show!
Available for booking now! Contact us!
Solve the crime along with us, in COTE's original murder-mystery dinner theatre performances!
Ever wanted to host your own murder-mystery dinner theatre?
The COTE Ensemble will create an original murder-mystery, to be performed for your conference, your party, your organization, your friends — whomever!
COTE has in repertory a 1920s Prohibition-themed murder-mystery, ready for performance, and we're eager to create more! Contact us by e-mail for more information about booking, or for new show requests!
Past Performances:
Woodmen of the World Jurisdictional Conference
May 14, 2011
Equinox Conference Center
Manchester, VT
A benefit for Hannah's Hope Fund
November 16, 2011
Rainbow Banquet Hall
Altona, NY
A benefit for the Enosburg Opera House
November 17, 2011
Enosburg Opera House
Enosburg, VT
Read an article on the show from the St. Albans Messenger!
Twelfth Night: Wall Street
directed by Casey Cleverly
February 23–March 10, 2012
Looking Glass Theatre
422 W. 57th Street
New York, NY
One woman will do whatever it takes to make it in the world of high power finance...including dressing as a man.
When the young Viola takes a job at the financial firm Orsino and Partners, she quickly finds that in order to move up the corporate ladder, she needs to dress as a man. Meanwhile her tough boss Orsino is intent on wooing the business of a major fashion client, Olivia and Co., at whatever costs. Their world turns topsy-turvy as the fashion heiress, Olivia, falls in love with the young analyst in disguise, and Olivia's pesky relatives come to Occupy Wall Street. 12th Night Wall Street is a play full of camp, satire, and serious money.
Tickets available via OvationTix.
El otro
written by Miguel de Unamuno
adapted & directed by Robert A. K. Gonyo
workshop performances on April 4 & 5, 2012
Looking Glass Theatre
422 W. 57th Street
New York, NY
One of two twin brothers lies dead in the basement, killed at his brother's hand — but the killer is mad, refusing to reveal his identity. While the housekeeper, the doctor, and the twins' respective wives try to piece together the truth of the crime, they get little help from the living twin, who refers to himself only as "El otro:" the Other.
Working with the text in the original Spanish, in English translation, and something in between, we will use Unamuno's riff on the story of Cain and Abel in an attempt to get at the sense of "other-ness" in America? Unamuno noted that the play explores "the intimate, profound truth of the drama of the soul;" as such, we will attempt to plumb the American soul.
What to Do in Case You Miss the Rapture (...and other Apocalyptic Tales)
directed by Ashley Marinaccio
workshop performances May 20–22, 2012
Looking Glass Theatre
422 W. 57th Street
New York, NY
What to Do in Case You Miss the Rapture (… and other Apocalyptic Tales) is an ensemble-devised piece illustrating the obsession with the "End of the World" and impending "Dooms Day" as suggested by both religious followers and atheists. Writers and Actors will be creating text based on news headlines, interviews, pop culture and their own experiences with 'dooms day' enthusiasts.