Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Project present a First Light Reading of
SuperQuiz!
by Mikaela Berry
directed by Colette Robert
Thursday December 11, 3pm
The Bushwick Starr presents
Rebel’s Rest is Burning Down
by Brittany K. Allen
directed by Colette Robert
featuring Amara James Aja, Baize Buzan, Bjorn DuPaty, Frank Harts, Portia, Portland Thomas, and Amelia Workman
as a part of the Starr Reading Series
Monday, December 8, 7pm
a reading of
The Tragedy of Keyshawn, Last Prince of Flatbush
or a study on the deleterious effects of whiteness on a young black male
by Al Sierra
directed by Colette Robert
as a part of The Public Theater’s EWG reading series
featuring Ross Barron, Brian D. Coats, Devin Kessler, Bruce Landry, Jay Lee, Samuel H. Levine, Celeste Sena, Cynthia St. Juste, and Shamarke Yusuf
3pm, 7pm
The Public Theater, Shiva Theater
Page 73 presents the world premiere of
Stargazers
by Majkin Holmquist
directed by Colette Robert
featuring Lizzy Brooks, Baize Buzan, Andrew Garman, Fernando Gonzalez, Miles G. Jackson, Keren Lugo, and Kelly McAndrew
Set Design: Lawrence E. Moten III
Costume Design: Alicia J. Austin
Lighting Design: Reza Behjat
Sound Design: Tosin Olufolabi
Props Design: Caitlyn Murphy
Production Stage Manager: Kate Croasdale
Assistant Stage Manager: Carolyn Reich
Assistant Director: Monique St. Cyr
April 8-May 4
https://page73.org/stargazers
Manhattan Theatre Club/The Ted Snowdon Reading Series presents
Wilma
by Abby Rosebrock
featuring Hannah Cabell and Pearl Scarlett Gold
Monday, March 4, 4pm
https://www.manhattantheatreclub.com/events/readingseries/
Page 73 presents a reading of
Murder Girl
by Heidi Armbruster
directed by Colette Robert
featuring Charlotte Booker, Gregory Connors, Kate Goehring, Nate Miller, Kellie Overbey, and Susannah Perkins
Friday, January 26, 4pm
Ensemble Studio Theatre presents
In the Light of the Mall
by Nadja Leonhard-Hooper
directed by Colette Robert
featuring Darcy Fowler and Brian Quijada
as part of Walking in a Winter WonderBRUNCH
Sunday, December 3, 1pm
https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/20232024-season/2023/10/1/brunch-bce2t
The Office Plays (The Receptionist and The Thugs)
by Adam Bock
directed by Colette Robert
featuring Mallory Avnet, Brandon Burk, Anna Civic, Brynn Gauthier, Brendan George, Elizabeth Jarrett, Sophia Tzougros, Kat Warnusz-Steckel, and David Wilson
Scenic Design: Taylor Friel
Costume Design: Kat Ibasco
Lighting Design: Andre Segar
Sound Design: Jordan Bernstein
November 16-21
Theatre C, The Paulson Center (NYU)
Ensemble Studio Theatre presents
Closing Time
by Jahna Ferron-Smith
directed by Colette Robert
featuring Will Dagger, Jahna Ferron-Smith, Graeme Gillis, Haskell King, Ife Olujobi, and RJ Tolan
as a part of Where Everybody Knows Your Brunch
Sunday, October 1, 1pm
https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/20232024-season/2023/10/1/brunch
a reading of
The Immeasurable Want of Light
by Daaimah Mubashshir
directed by Colette Robert
featuring Sheldon Best, Brenda Crawley, Lucy Kaminsky, Denise Manning, John-Andrew Morrison, and Ronald Peet
Stage Manager: Sydneii Colter
as a part of The Atlantic Theater Company’s (Writ)ual Mix: Traditions of the Diaspora
August 16, 7pm
a workshop showing of
Paradise Ballroom
co-created by Samara Cohen (Princess Lockerooo) and Harold O’Neal
Book, Lyrics, and Music by Samara Cohen and Harold O’Neal
Music Production by Harold O’Neal
Choreography by Princess Lockerooo (Samara Cohen)
Directed by Colette Robert
Featuring Ernest Allen, Leanne Antonio, William Bailey (Jada Valenciaga), Tyrone Bevans, Tytus Larue James Gibson-Jackson, Isaiah Johnson, Jade Jones, Nicole Lambert, John-Michael Lyles, and Phillip Johnson Richardson
Music Direction by Nygel D. Robinson
Music Assistant: Jesse-Ray Leich
Sound Design: Tosin Olufolabi
Lighting Design: Jonah Bobilin
PSM: Alyssa K. Howard
Assistant Stage Manager: Aisling Galvin
August 4-6
as a part of New York Stage and Film’s Stories That Move: Developing Dance Musicals
New Georges and The Movement Theatre Company Present
The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-Burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel
written and directed by Colette Robert
music and lyrics by Dionne McClain-Freeney
additional lyrics by Colette Robert
choreography by nicHi douglas
with Caturah Brown, Kayla Coleman, Cherrye J. Davis, Claire Fort, Starr Kirkland, Aigner Mizzelle, Cristina Pitter, Monique St. Cyr, Portland Thomas, Montria Walker, Akyiaa Wilson and Jehan O. Young
set: Teresa L. Williams; costumes: Mika Eubanks; lights: Stacey Derosier; sound: Sadah Espii Proctor
music direction: Dionne McClain-Freeney; make-up: Fatima Thomas, Senior National Artist, M∙A∙C Cosmetics
https://newgeorges.ticketspice.com/the-cotillion/
May 3-27
Crumbs From the Table of Joy
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Colette Robert
Featuring Shanel Bailey, Jason Bowen, Sharina Martin, Natalia Payne, and Malika Samuel
Scenic Designer: Brendan Gonzales Boston
Costume Designer: Johanna Pan
Wig Designer: Nikiya Mathis
Lighting Designer: Anshuman Bhatia
Sound Designer: Broken Chord
Props Designer: Caitlyn Murphy
Vocal & Dialect Coach: Amanda Quaid
Fight and Intimacy Director: Rocío Mendez
Production Stage Manager: Shane Schnetzler
Assistant Stage Manager: Sammy Landau
Production Manager: Savanah Sanchez
Casting: Stephanie Yankwitt, tbd casting
Production Support by Rosalind Productions
The Wanderers
by Anna Ziegler
directed by Colette Robert
City Theatre Company
https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/the-wanderers/
November 26-December 18
Featuring Sarah Goeke, Nick Lehane, Moira Quigley, Jed Resnick, and Allison Strickland
Scenic Design: Anne Mundell
Lighting Design: Natalie Robin
Costume Design: Mindy Eshelman
Sound Design: Jeff Sherwood
Dramaturgy: Clare Drobot
Production Stage Manager: Patti Kelly
Penumbra Theatre presents
Sponsored by HealthPartners
Harrison David Rivers’
Weathering
World Premiere
Directed by Colette Robert
After his award-winning Penumbra debut, This Bitter Earth, Harrison David Rivers brings us an intimate portrait of a couple navigating excruciating loss. As generations of women encircle the heartbroken and the sacred work of grief gets underway, we all become part of their healing journey.
https://penumbratheatre.org/event/weathering
a Pendragon first-look workshop production of:
by Jahna Ferron-Smith
directed by Colette Robert
Dwindling park attendance nationwide has sent the NPS scrambling to engage those they've traditionally left out of the narrative of the great outdoors- people of color. But how do you excite when for many, the environments are symbolic of misery?
For mature audiences. Contains sexually explicit material.
https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=13&p=3
a Memberfest reading of
[landscape play]
written and directed by Colette Robert
featuring Sharina Martin and Adesola Osakalumi
Tuesday, June 7, 7pm
Ensemble Studio Theatre
545 west 52nd Street, 2nd Floor.
Reservation link: https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/landscape-play
Primary Stages presents
Fresh Ink Readings Series
featuring work form the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group
Monday, June 6 @ Reading at 3:00pm
UNICORN by Kevin Artigue
Directed by Colette Robert
Featuring: Kate Abbruzzese, Natalie Kim, Alisa Melendez, Sathya Sridharan, Alok Tewari and John Zdrojeski
SUPER started with a simple mission: to get rides to people who needed it. But as the tech start up embarks on a meteoric rise to prominence, its founders are forced to contend with the human cost of innovation: who wins, who loses, and who really pays for progress?
All performances will be held at 59E59 Theaters, Theater B.
To RSVP, please fill out the google form here: https://forms.gle/sCq7DdT4sevYxThx8
Don't miss out on our last Brunch of the season!
Join us on June 5th for a continental breakfast with mimosas, mocktails, and (young)bloody marys, followed by five new short plays from the writers of EST/Youngblood.
I Have No Confidence Any of This will Work
written by Phanésia Pharel
directed by Colette Robert*
featuring Taylor A. Blackman & Denise Manning
Sunday, June 5, Noon and 3pm
Ensemble Studio Theatre, 545 west 52nd Street, 2nd Floor
Youngblood BRUNCH Returns!
Join us on May 1st for our first Youngblood BRUNCH in over two years! We're serving up a light continental breakfast with mimosas and (young)bloody marys, followed by five new short plays about science & technology from the writers of EST/Youngblood.
Sunday, May 1st, Noon and 3pm
Imaginary Birds Sing Real Love Songs
by Dan Giles
directed by Colette Robert, featuring Brittany K. Allen & Sean McIntyre
https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/20212022/2022/4/22/the-search-for-signs-of-intelligent-brunch-in-the-universe
how to roll a blunt
by Naomi Lorrain
directed by Colette Robert
Pacific Playwrights Festival
April 8,
4 p.m. on the Segerstrom Stage
Roommates Maya Wright and James Wright are unrelated, unattached and underappreciated. Surviving as an artist in New York City is no easy feat—so they shouldn’t be underestimated either. By anyone. (Including their exes.) A witty exploration of Black art, Black love and the pursuit of Black excellence.
https://www.scr.org/calendar/view?id=12875
I, MY RUINATION
a new play by Kevin Artigue
Directed by Colette Robert
featuring Demosthenes Chrysan, Drew Gehling, Ethan Hova, Jenny Mudge, and Theo T. Stockman
Three months in 1952. Elia Kazan. Arthur Miller. Molly Kazan. An intimate, radical look at the iconic director's life-altering decision to name names.
Wednesday March 30th @ 2pm
Rattlestick Theater
224 Waverly Place
Please RSVP to Eliana Rodriguez at boxoffice@rattlestick.org
Audience will be masked for the reading.
EST/Sloan Project presents a Reading of
directed by Colette Robert
featuring Andrus Nichols, Will Dagger, Elise Kibler, Emma Kikue, Sean McIntyre, & David Shih
A story about amateur scientist Eunice Foote, one big discovery, scientific legacy, and ever-rising levels of carbon dioxide.
Mariel Sanchez, Stage Manager
Salt Lake Acting Company presents
Egress
by Melissa Crespo and Sarah Saltwick
Utah Premiere
https://saltlakeactingcompany.org/shows-ticketing/season-lineup/item/1573-egress
Columbia School of the Arts presents
Dance Nation
by Clare Barron
Director Colette Robert
featuring Anita Abdinezhad, Saby Ramirez, Anne Guadagnino, Damla Coskun, Gillian Abbott, Nate Janis, Stephanie Jeane, Brigitte Thieme-Burdette, and Isaiah Dodo-Williams.
Choreographer Gillian Abbott
Scenic Designer Teresa Williams
Props Master Zach Marlin
Lighting Designer Eric Norbury
Sound Designer Caroline Eng
Costume Designer Grier Coleman
Production Stage Manager Tom Blushi
Assistant Stage Manager Maria De Barros
Company Manager Mary Alex Daniels
General Manager Anthony Louis Massa
Dance Captain Brigitte Thieme-Burdette
https://lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/events/acting-thesis-dance-nation
Roundabout Theatre presents:
Caroline, or Change
by Tony Kushner (writer) and Jeanine Tesori (composer)
directed by Michael Longhurst
choreographed by Ann Yee
https://www.roundabouttheatre.org/get-tickets/2021-2022-season/caroline-or-change/
Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination: Nine Solo Plays
Directed by Wardell Julius Clark, Candis C. Jones, and Colette Robert
Guest curated by Robert O’Hara
Featuring new plays by Ngozi Anyanwu, France‑Luce Benson, J. Nicole Brooks, Guadalís Del Carmen, Terry Guest, Ike Holter, Zora Howard, NSangou Njikam, and Charly Evon Simpson
Discover the power and intimacy of the solo play with this series of three shows centering and celebrating Black artists and their voices through theatrical storytelling. Each show consists of three, 30-minute world premieres, created by Black writers, written for actors of color, and brought to life by directors Wardell Julius Clark, Candis C. Jones, and Colette Robert on the Front Lawn of the ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance. Guest curated by Tony Award-nominated director and playwright Robert O’Hara.
Chalk Repertory Theatre presents
Leimert Park Drum Circle, Sunday Afternoon
by Colette Robert
directed by Jennifer Chang
Featuring Veralyn Jones
as a part of the audio play series Chalk Lines
available June 19-August 31
https://www.chalkrep.com/now-playing
Gingold Theatrical Group presents
a digital, work-in-progress reading of
The Apiary
by Kate Douglas
directed by Colette Robert
featuring Danielle Davenport, Claire Karpen, Savanna Padilla, Kristen Sieh, and Emily Stout
Saturday, June 5, 2:30pm ET
It’s 2074. Bees are extinct in the wild, kept alive inside synthetic apiaries where they live year-round in perpetual spring.
Through a freak accident, lab assistants Zora and Pilar discover the bees have an usually positive response to dead human flesh. As the bees begin to thrive, Zora and Pilar need to cope with a way to continue to feed the bees to save them - and cope with their own failing health.
The Apiary has been developed at GTG’s Speakers’ Corner.
To register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wwi_1oidQ7G6-KcR0UVMxQ
a live virtual reading of
Behind the Sheet
by Charly Evon Simpson
featuring featuring Stephen James Anthony, Nia Calloway, Bjorn DuPaty, Naomi Lorrain, Cristina Pitter, Joel Ripka, Megan Tusing, Amber Reauchean Williams & Jehan O. Young
Stage Directions: Sifiso Mabena
Stage Manager: Fran Acuña-Almiron
Saturday, March 8, 7pm ET
https://www.anarchalucybetsey.org/product-page/behind-the-sheet-virtual-live-performance-6-00-pm-ct
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