New Member!!

Coyote REP welcomes its newest members.

Chandra is an accomplished actress and theater artist and we are very excited to have her as our newest member.


Find out more about her here:

http://www.nychandra.com/

News Time

Here is a link to the Company's announcement of our new Artistic Director in BroadwayWorld!

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Donnetta_Lavinia_Grays_Assumes_The_Role_Of_Artistic_Director_At_Coyote_Rep_20091229

check it out!!

A Very Special Message From Our New Artistic Director

A Very Special Message From Our New Artistic Director Dear Family, As we celebrate this holiday season and wind down the final days of 2009 I want to take this time to say thank you for supporting Coyote REP these past four years. It is also my pleasure to let you in on some of the exciting changes we have made and give you some insights into our upcoming season! Jeanne LaSala has served as Artistic Director of Coyote REP from its inception. In fact the meetings that took place in her 5th floor walk up apartment almost five years ago are what inspired the creation of our company. She has stood at the helm of Coyote REP's multiple sound plays and stage productions and she has coordinated each of our Rising Moon Galas/Fundraisers. I truly respect her standard of excellence and hard work and this is why I was so humbled when she, with the support of the company, nominated me as her successor. I am also happy to announce that Jeanne will continue on as our Executive Director and we will work together to make sure that you get the most out of your theatregoing experience. As CR's newest Artistic Director I hope to both continue and expand upon what Jeanne and our founding members envisioned just a short time ago. I believe that our 2010 season and our long-term list of initiatives do just that. Coyote REP has sharpened its mission statement in order to emphasize our goal of developing striking and provocative theater for both our stage and online productions. In May 2010 we will present our first ever Works-in-Progress Series. This series will showcase new works by our member playwrights in a collection of readings and bare bones staged productions. We invite you to become a part of the development process by witnessing these innovative new works as they are being shaped by our company. One piece that has benefited greatly from your feedback is our most current work in development, The New Normal. Coming on the heels of our successful Fall Rising Moon Fundraiser, we are continuing the development of The New Normal for an October 2010 run. The New Normal is a passionate, realistic and often humorous look into the world of young breast cancer survivors. The play is based on the experiences of survivor Anna Warren Schumacher as detailed on her online blog. Coyote REP was honored to share a portion of the fundraiser's donations with the Young Survivor Coalition. A rough presentation of the piece, coupled with inspirational stories shared by members of the YSC at this very special event, inspired a second draft. In addition to our readings and stage productions, we are hard at work finding the next set of extraordinary sound plays to produce. We are seeking new plays from within our ranks and through direct submissions from playwrights across the nation in order to add to the exciting productions that are still available on iTunes. Coyote REP recognizes our role as a part of the greater New York City theater community and we understand that it is only with a tremendous amount of support that we have come as far as we have. This is why we are laying the foundation for new educational and outreach programs. Coyote REP has the power to give the gift of theater to patrons who may be shut-in or to those who are sight-impaired. It is our goal to use our innovative forms of theater to better serve these communities. We are also interested in sharing our knowledge and skill with others and will begin offering performance-based courses for adults and children in the coming months. I am so very excited about the strides we are making, not only for our upcoming season but for the extended future. Several of our members have come forward to help our Founders' vision come to fruition. Please check out our website and see just how our company has grown! Our company is revitalized, reorganized and ready to meet the adventures that lie ahead. We thank you so much for your support and ask you to continue to come along with us for the ride! Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Donnetta Lavinia Grays Artistic Director Coyote REP Theatre Company 2010 Running Season Schedule Visit www.coyoterep.org for more on our 2010 season! May 2010: NEW WORKS SERIES JULY 2010: The Fourth Annual Coyote REP Play Circle SEPTEMBER 2010: Our Annual Rising Moon Gala and Fundraiser OCTOBER 2010: WORLD PREMIERE The New Normal Coyote REP Sound Plays available now for podcasting online DECEPTION, by Jeremy Dobrish, directed by Glenn Kalison GIRL, by Megan Mostyn-Brown, directed by Josh Hecht THE BOY AT THE WINDOW, by Douglas Braverman, directed by Olivia Mora and Teresa K. Pond PATRIOT ACT (AN OCCURENCE AT YANKEE STADIUM), by Robert Emmet Lunney, directed by Richard Romagnoli COYOTE RISING by Tira Palmquist, directed by Jeanne LaSala **************** Coyote REP would like to invite you into the Den. Visit www.coyoterep.org to make a TAX-DEDUCTIBLE online donation. **************** Shop for great looking Coyote REP items at our store on CafePress! ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Donnetta Lavinia Grays ASSOC.ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Glenn Kalison PRODUCING DIRECTOR Andrea Caban ASSOC. PRODUCING DIRECTOR Lyndsey Goode EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jeanne LaSala MANAGING DIRECTOR Carla Musgrove COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth MARKETING DIRECTOR Corey Allen MEDIA DIRECTOR Greg Ayers EDUCATION DIRECTOR Richard Padro COMMUNITY OUTREACH Safiya Fredericks RESIDENT SOUND DESIGNER Mitch Greenhill **************** Coyote REP P.O. Box 655 New York, NY 10159 www.coyoterep.org ****************

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Something's Brewin'

So, a lot is shaking and coming up for the new year.

Check out our website in the coming days for some big announcements including new posts, new programs and new productions.

Also, yeah, we caved. we are tweeting...twittering...or some other word that sounds more titillating than the law allows.

follow us at http://twitter.com/CoyoteREP!

We will keep you posted!

in the meantime. If you haven't check us out on iTunes please do. All of our past Sound Plays are still available for download. Including last year's episodic series of Jeremy Dobrish's DECEPTION directed by Glenn Kalison.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=260521762


Stay tuned guys!! and happy Holidays!!

Welcome!

Welcome to Coyote REP's new and improved blog space! Please join us here for the most up-to-date information on how we are rockin' and rollin' in 2010!

And how we feel about it!!

Happy Holidays and visit us fairly soon for some very cool updates!

best,
Donnetta

Coyote REP Theatre Company's Lone Wolf Series

The Lone Wolf Series: Our 2008 Production for the Stage

We cordially invite you to attend the Lone Wolf Series, our repertory stage production of one-woman shows offering unique takes on Coyote REP's season theme of "Isolation." The series features original works by (clockwise from top left) Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Heidi Tokheim, Andrea Caban and Jeanne LaSala. Each performance will showcase two of the four pieces running in repertory for two weeks.

Tickets are $18 for all performances and are available through Brown Paper Tickets at the following link:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/30204

The Lone Wolf Series
May 15-25, 2008
The June Havoc Theater
Abingdon Theater Arts Complex
312 West 36th Street (Just west of 8th Avenue)
New York City

One of our company missions is to support and foster work from within our ranks. Among our membership, we possess not only accomplished performers, directors, and designers, but stellar writers as well. We were determined to spend the 2008 season showcasing our versatility. Accordingly, we put out a submissions call to all Coyotes far and wide in search of solo performance pieces. Ultimately, we selected four as especially emblematic of the collective identity of our company; each show is personal, moving, a little quirky, and represents a brave step toward the theatrically new and unexpected.

This season's theme, "Isolation," serves as a counterpoint to our first season's theme, "Community." 2008 seemed a worthwhile time to focus on the resilience of the individual and how our inward explorations and unique opinions can serve our interactions as a society.

THE FOUR LONE WOLVES

In the cowboy is dying, Donnetta Lavinia Grays fuses storytelling and original music in a semi-autobiographical tale of self-discovery. Grays' piece is a comedic look at God, romance, and the wondrous limitations of childhood expectations.

STELLA BY STARLIGHT, by Heidi Tokheim, follows the journey of Stella, an aspiring jazz piano player who is female, white, and unemployed. One fateful night, she meets Herbie Hancock, who teaches her how to swing ... and that changes everything.

Through movement and text SPOILED BEA, by Jeanne LaSala, deals with isolation as it forces its way into the life of a dancer who, due to a tragic accident, is no longer able to communicate with the outside world. Rather than succumbing to the horror of her situation, Beatrice finds humorous, poignant and creative ways to connect with the characters that populate her new world and to access the freedom and beauty that dance inside of her.

And ANDREA CABAN's untitled theater piece mixes anthropology and psychotherapy. She investigates the gaps between isolation and connection through interviews with ten New Yorkers and her father.


Photos by Deidre Schoo

Coyote REP Honors Jeremy Dobrish and John Martello

The Second Annual Rising Moon Gala and Fundraiser

THEATRE COMPANY HOLDS GALA FUNDRAISER AT THE PLAYERS’ CLUB TO RAISE MONEY FOR THEIR UPCOMING SEASON. MANDY GONZALEZ AND CHRIS JACKSON (STARS OF THE BROADWAY MUSICAL IN THE HEIGHTS) AND LYPSINKA WILL PERFORM. PLAYWRIGHT/DIRECTOR JEREMY DOBRISH AND John Martello, Executive Director of The Players’ Club, WILL RECEIVE MOON AWARDS.

PRESS INVITATION: Sat 11/3/07 @ 8 pm, The Players’ Club, 16 Gramercy Park South

New York, NY – Come and celebrate Coyote REP’s second season. Cocktail reception begins at 8:00 pm and will be followed immediately by a reception and auction. Entertainment will be provided by award-winning actor John Epperson, aka Lypsinka, and Broadway stars of In the Heights, Mandy Gonzalez and Chris Jackson, followed by a presentation of the “Moon” Awards.

COYOTE REP will present 2 “Moon” awards at the Gala, honoring outstanding contributions to the theatre. Jeremy Dobrish will receive the Moon Award for Outstanding Playwriting for his play Deception and John Martello will receive the Moon Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Theatre. A sample of the items up for auction and raffle are: 2 tickets to the Tony Awards, 2 orchestra tickets to the Broadway show of your choice, tickets to a taping of Saturday Night Live and Live with Regis and Kelly, 2 Day-Hopper Passes to Disney World in Orlando, FL, VIP tickets to Finding Nemo, a 2-night stay at a suite in the beautiful Lexington Hotel in downtown Orlando, NY Giants tickets, and much more!

Jeremy Dobrish is a director and playwright. Off-Broadway directing credits: ELECTION DAY (Second Stage), IN THE WINGS (Promenade), DRIFT ('06 NY Musical Theatre Festival) SPAIN (SPF and currently MCC), TED KACZYNSKI KILLED PEOPLE WITH BOMBS (Clurman), THE JOYS OF SEX (Variety Arts Theatre, Excellence in Directing Award – NYC Fringe Festival), THE TUTOR with Anthony Rapp (York), CLASS MOTHERS '68, and THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) (Century Center). Dobrish has also directed at WPA, The Kirk, Soho Playhouse, Actor's Playhouse, and two seasons with the Young Playwrights Festival. Regional credits include: THE GIRL IN THE FRAME (Goodspeed), TEREZIN (Village Theatre), and SLEUTH (Hangar). His adaptation of CURIOUS GEORGE tours the country with THEATREWORKS USA. Jeremy is an Artistic Associate at Second Stage and was the Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Adobe Theatre Company from 1991 until 2004. Adobe work includes NOTIONS IN MOTION, THE HANDLESS MAIDEN, BLINK OF AN EYE, SUPERPOWERS, and ORPHEUS & EURYDICE.

John Martello has been an actor, producer and director for nearly 35 years. As an actor, he has appeared in dinner theatres, regional theatres and Off-Broadway in everything from Shakespeare to SUGAR BABIES. Off-Broadway, Mr. Martello produced the musical revue DAUGHERTY & FIELD OFF-BROADWAY, which ran for a year and was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, and the acclaimed one-man show DAMON RUNYON’S TALES OF BROADWAY, which Mr. Martello also wrote and performed. He is currently in the process of producing Simon Gray’s THE OLD MASTERS for Broadway in 2008. As Executive Director of The Players, Mr. Martello has produced hundreds of presentations over the last 15 years, including evenings honoring Jason Robards, Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, Gregory Peck, Marian Seldes, Peter O’Toole, Tony Bennett, Carol Burnett, Gerald Schoenfeld, Angela Lansbury, Edward Albee and dozens of other theatrical luminaries. He was the recipient, in 2001, of the Pirandello Medallion (presented by the Pirandello Society of America) to acknowledge his performing, producing and directing the work of that great playwright.

COYOTE REP is a not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to balancing process and production, committed to developing, producing and inspiring original plays through innovative means: (R)ecorded sound plays, an (E)lectronic documentary and (P)roductions for the stage - REP. Coyote REP was founded by and is comprised largely of graduates from UC Irvine’s Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre Program. Coyote REP produces its sound play series at WNYC studios. A documentary, which follows the members of the company through the highs and lows of producing in New York, is currently running on YouTube. For more information, visit the company’s website, www.coyoterep.org.

THE PLAYERS’ CLUB: 16 Gramercy Park South (East 20^th Street between Park and Irving)

Gala Fundraiser: November 3, 2007, 8 pm Cocktail Reception, Entertainment, Raffle and Auction

Running time: 2 hours Ticketing Information www.coyoterep.org

Trains: 6, R, W to 23^rd Street or 4, 5, 6, N, R, Q, W, L to 14^th Street/Union Square