About This Show
Coyote REP is committed to nurturing the original work of the company’s playwrights. The annual Works in Development Series is an intensive, ten-month program which provides a structured series of workshops culminating in a public presentation of readings in May. This year, Coyote REP is excited to present 4 wildly different and unique projects. Talk backs are featured after each reading. For more information please visit us at coyoterep.com. Seating is extremely limited. RSVP at info@coyoterep.org. Include your name, name of the play and number of seats requested
The Dogwatcher
By Emily Bohannan
Monday, May 2nd 7pm
Ripley-Grier Studios
($5 suggested donation)
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The inmates of a Georgia prison tell their stories to an advocate to try and save the program that brings one hour of humanity to their week – but is their savior using his powers for good, or is he more like his subjects than they know?
SICK
By Greg Ayers
Directed By Paul Dobie
Monday, May 9th 7pm
Ripley-Grier Studios
($5 suggested donation)
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with Chris Bert (the Green), Alex Brightman (Wicked, Spidermusical), Andrea Caban (Questions My Mother Can’t Answer), Jessica Disalvo, Ben Hollandsworth (A Little Journey), Brian Munn (Wicked), Josh Odsess-Rubin, Tom Patterson, and Anita Sabherwal (Future Anxiety)
8 am: Get the kids off to school.
10 am: Get baked with you brother.
7 pm: Defend the house from zombies
They Were Ours
By Larry Manogue and William White
Directed by Beth Gardiner
Monday, May 16th 7pm
Ripley-Grier Studios
$5 suggested donation
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with Rob Bradford, Le-Anne Garland (Genderf*ck), Jason Alan Griffin (Dancing Fools), Jeanne LaSala (Spoiled Bea), Joel Leffert (The Memorandum), Tim McKiernan, Teresa Meza, Josh Odsess-Rubin, Tom Patterson, chandra thomas (Forgive to Forget)
Forty-three soldiers from one small county in Southern New Jersey go to war and die for their country. They were deployed over forty years ago, yet shipped out yesterday. One soldier returns and must tell their stories through those they left behind, because … “they were ours”. Forty three stories, eighty characters, ten actors …a theatrical adaptation of the book “They Were Ours: Gloucester County’s Loss in Vietnam”, by John Campbell
The Review (Or How to Eat Your Opposition)
By Donnetta Lavinia Grays
Directed by Isaac Byrne
Monday May 23rd 7pm
Ripley-Grier Studios
$5.00 Suggested Donation
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with Jeanne LaSala (Spoiled Bea), Leah Robinson, Lusia Strus (Enron), Elizabeth Whitney (The West Street Gang)
Naomi is an artist whose career is taking off…finally. But at what cost? Enter a young critic (Dana) who challenges Naomi’s artistic integrity and by doing so finds herself with a challenge of her own. Art or artifice? Depends on your point of view.