Among The Coats

It’s the year of our lord and savior – 2003. It’s hot, dry, and deadly boring – Utah. LEE (24) is a butch lesbian who's one hell of an actress and one nightmare of a waiter. When she gets cast in a non-Equity summer production, she flies down to Utah, excited to finally get work after coming out. There, she meets JANE (19), a Catholic kindergarten teacher who's fresh out of high school and freshly engaged to a man whose eyes she secretly imagines scooping out with grapefruit spoons. And she's just gotten her first gig as a seasonal acting apprentice.

But when the two of them are cast in a regional production of the worst play you’ve ever seen, they are forced to replay the same scene of intimacy over & over again. And with a reckless director, a poorly written script, and lack of intimacy coordinator --- the two of them begin to become attracted to one another -- and all of a sudden, find themselves unable to perform the show.

TEAM
Written by: Noma Mirny
Directed by: Noma Mirny
Assistant Directed by: Sil Rivera
Stage Manager: Sankofa McLaurin
Dramaturgy: Jaden Tyler Urso & Isa Garcia
Intimacy Director: Safwa Ozair
Fight Choreographer: Elena Falkow
Scenic Design: Brendan Hodge
Lighting Design: Tori Oatway
Costume Design: Kelli Converso
Sound Design: Chloe Leferman
Props Master: Sil Rivera
Makeup Advisor: Lizzie Leach
Photography: Maddie Provost
Videography: Liv Campbell
Crew: Via Michel, Anna Griffin

CAST
MARIE ANTOINETTE: Jane McCutcheon
FRANÇOISE deFRENNES: Alexandra (Lee) Chopra
JANE McCUTCHEON: Hunter Schofield
LEE CHOPRA: Aspen Narain
DIRECTOR (GREG): Brendan Hodge
CREW: Via Michel, Anna Griffin

3C Playwrights Downtown, 440 Lafayette St # 4, New York, NY 10003
Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, Fall 2023 
November 16th - 18th, 2023