Among The Coats (Broke People Play Festival Production)

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: Sofi Lopez Arredondo
Assistant Directed by: Jack Garrett
Stage Manager: Camila Pagan
Intimacy Director: Safwa Ozair
Fight Choreographer: Peter Xiao
Lighting Designer: Evan Davis
Sound Designer: Kai Kang

CAST
JANE: Thyme Briscoe
LEE: Sabrina Lin
DIRECTOR / GREG: Carter Williams

Goldberg Theatre, 721 Broadway, New York, NY
NYU Broke People Play Festival, Full Length Series, Festival Closer, Spring 2024
May 5th, 2024