BLUE COWBOY

The Bushwick Starr, Brooklyn

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About the Show

The Bushwick Starr presents:

BLUE COWBOY

Written and performed by David Cale

Directed by Les Waters

October 14 – November 8, 2025

At The Bushwick Starr: 419 Eldert Street, Brooklyn

Tuesdays – Saturdays at 7:30pm

AUDIENCE INFO:

Run Time: 90 minutes, one act
Age Recommendation: 16+ (performance contains sexually explicit language)
Closed Captioning available on October 15, 22, 30 and November 7

ASL interpreted performance on October 29
Assisted listening devices available upon request
The Bushwick Starr is a fully ADA accessible venue

SPECIAL EVENTS:
10/21 – Bushwick Community Night

10/29 – ASL interpreted performance

11/1 – Starr Member Night

Award-winning theater artists David Cale and Les Waters unite to premiere a powerful, intimate new play. A writer from New York travels to Ketchum, Idaho to work on a film script set in Sun Valley. His plans and life take a wildly unanticipated turn after he has a chance encounter with an elusive ranch hand at the town’s annual "Trailing of the Sheep Festival". Blue Cowboy, the new solo work from David Cale, is the frank and sexually explicit story of two men from very different worlds. One who is open about his life, and the other whose life remains a self-imposed mystery to everyone around him, but who both share a profound need to intimately connect to another human being. Cale tells the story in his signature style full of vulnerability and blunt confession.

Creative team:

Set & Props Design: Colleen Murray, Costume Design: Kaye Voyce, Lighting Design: Mextly Couzin, Sound Design: Tei Blow, Stage Manager: Siena Yusi, Assistant Stage Manager: Maia G. Tivony, Assistant Costume Design: Noah Willis-Hogan

Line Producer: Lucy Jackson

Blue Cowboy was commissioned by The Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency, a special initiative of The Community Library’s Hemingway Writer-in-residence program in association with Sawtooth Productions.

Development of Blue Cowboy has been supported in part, through a residency and workshop performance at Ancram Center for the Arts (Jeffrey Mousseau and Paul Ricciardi, Directors).

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