Creative Team
Lia Romeo
(Playwright) Lia Romeo is a recent graduate of the Juilliard playwriting program. Her plays have been developed at the O’Neill, La Jolla Playhouse, the Lark, and elsewhere, and have been produced at companies such as Colt Coeur, Dorset Theatre Festival, Laguna Playhouse, Unicorn Theatre, Project Y Theatre, and New Jersey Repertory Theatre. Four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. Her plays are published by TRW, Broadway Licensing, and Broadway Play Publishing. She is the associate artistic director of Project Y Theatre, a company member with Colt Coeur, and the co-founder of the Parent-Caregiver Playwrights Group. She teaches in the M.A. program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Adrienne Campbell-Holt
(Director) Adrienne Campbell-Holt is an award-winning NYC-based director and choreographer and the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. Recent world premieres: Finn by Chris Dimond, Michael Kooman and Chris Nee (Kennedy Center), Still (Colt Coeur at DR2, NYC & Dorset Theatre Festival, VT), Dodi & Diana by Kareem Fahmy (Colt Coeur at HERE), Afterwords, by Emily Kaczmarek, music & lyrics by Zoe Sarnak, choreographed by Ebony Williams (5th Avenue Theater, Heileman & Haver Award for Best New Musical), NY premiere of Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector (Colt Coeur), Other World, by Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen & Ann McNamee, choreography by Karla Puno Garcia (Delaware Theatre Company, BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Musical), We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber (City Theater, Pittsburgh), Hatef**k, by Rehana Lew Mirza (WP/Colt Coeur), Joan by Stephen Belber (Colt Coeur), Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck starring Tyne and Tim Daly (Primary Stages). Currently developing work with Carmel Dean & Mindi Dickstein (Maiden Voyage), and Jaclyn Backhaus & Jonatha Brooke (Tempus). Associate Director of Dear Evan Hansen (OBC). Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award, "25 Women to Watch on Broadway". AdrienneCampbellHolt.com.
Alexander Woodward
(Scenic Designer) Alexander Woodward is a New York based multi-hyphenate, designer, organizer, and artist focused in scenic and costume design for live performance in theatre, opera, and dance with credits all over, including the world and Broadway premier of The Sound Inside and the world premiere of the ballet Their Eyes Were Watching God. In addition to their design work, Alexander is a co-founder of "In The Wings a Design/Tech Showcase" for young artists at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and serves as the Area Head of the BFA & MFA Design and Technical Theatre program at the University of Connecticut. As a designer and educator Alexander is an avid proponent for advancing arts advocacy, exploring all aspects of our medium as a form for social change & a tool to shape the environment around us. In recent years Alexander has served on the executive board for Wingspace, a non profit organization that promotes conversation on design, our community, and furthers activism within the industry. MFA Yale School of Drama, United Scenic Artists Local 829. Instagram @alexanderwoodwarddesign and alexanderwoodward.com
Reza Behjat
(Lighting Designer) Reza Behjat is an Obie Award winner lighting designer for live performances based in New York. Off-Broadway: Stargazers (Page 73), Bathouse.pptx (The Flea), The Ally (Public Theater), Bees & Honey (MCC Theater), Hang Time (Flea), Arden of Faversham (Redbull Theater), Good Enemy (Audible), Vagrant Trilogy (Public Theater), Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons), English (Atlantic Theater), Out of Time (NAATCO), P.S. (Ars Nova), Henry VI (NAATCO), Hamlet (Waterwell), etc. Regional: Seattle Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie Theater, Hudson Valey Shakespeare, Milwaukee Rep, Wilma Theater, Arizona Theater Company, Actor Theater of Louisville, Geva Theater, Long Wharf, Alabama Shakespeare, etc. Awards: Obie Award in Design category for English and Wish You Were Here (2022), Knight of Illumination Award for Nina Simone: Four Women (2019).
Barbara Bell
(Costume Designer) World premier of Still (Dorset Theatre Festival.) Other designs include Morning's At Seven, The Show-Off (Peccadillo Theatre), Crumbs From The Table of Joy (Juilliard School), It's A Wonderful Life, Child's Christmas In Wales (Irish Repertory), Theresa Rebeck's Way of the World, Outside Mullingar, Mousetrap, Dial M For Murder (DorsetTheatre Festival), A Thousand Pines (Westport Country Playhouse), The Saintliness of Margery Kempe (Duke Theatre), Doctor's Dilemma (Peterborough Players), Disgraced, Venus Rising, (Northern Stage), Widowers' Houses, Heartbreak House (Gingold Theatrical), Soldier (HERE Theatre) , Trip to Bountiful, The Seafarer, Driving Miss Daisy (Capitol Repertory), Clybourne Park (Barrington Stage), Tenderly, To Kill A Mockingbird, Raisin In The Sun (Weston Playhouse). She designed 43 shows at the Pearl Theatre Company (NYC) which included Taste of Honey, Uncle Vanya, Figaro, Vieux Carre, Bald Soprano, and is a recipient of a Princess Grace Foundation Award for her Pearl Theatre designs. www.barbarabellcostumedesign.com
Hidenori Nakajo
(Sound Designer) NYC: The Life & Smiles of Marc Summers (New World Stages), The Creeps (Playhouse 46), OCTET (Signature, Obie Award, Drama Desk nom., Lucille Lortel nom., Henry Hewes Design Awards nom.), Autumn Royal (Irish Rep, Drama Desk nom., Henry Hewes Design Awards nom.), Dodi & Diana (Colt Coeur). Regional: OCTET (Berkeley Rep), Moby Dick (A.R.T., Elliot Norton Award), Guys & Dolls (Guthrie), Still (Dorset Theatre Festival), Other World (Delaware Theater), Hold These Truths (People’s Light), Into the Burrow-A Peter Rabbit Tale, (Alliance, GA). Broadway Associate: Camelot, The Kite Runner, The Front Page. Broadway Assistant: The Lightning Thief, Be More Chill, Allegiance, Gigi. Tour Associate: The Kite Runner, My Fair Lady. He served Japanese theatrical productions as a bilingual engineer for Ikuko Kawai & Orchestra Hibiki (Jazz at Lincoln), One Green Bottle by Noda Map (La MaMa) and more for Lincoln Center Festival. A member of USA Local 829.
Jane Dubin
(Producing Partner) is a Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League Award-winning producer and the President of Double Play Connections, a theatrical production company committed to supporting the development of new work. Jane is a graduate of the CTI 14-week (NYC) and O’Neill(CT) Producing Workshops and Director of TRU’s Producer Development Master Class. Ms. Dubin is Chair of the Board of Houses on the Moon Theater Company; a past Board member of the League of Professional Theatre Women and was a Tony voter for seven years. She is a member of the Broadway Women’s Alliance, Off-Broadway Alliance, LPTW and Off-Broadway League. She serves as an evaluator for Bethany Arts Community’s residency program. She is a frequent panelist and guest lecturer on theater-related matters. Jane serves on the advisory boards of Elizabeth Mascia Child Care Center, Axial Theatre and Dirty Laundry Theatre. Upcoming productions: The Village of Vale – an original musical. Broadway: Is This A Room, Dana H., The Prom (Drama Desk Best Musical), Farinelli and the King (Mark Rylance), An American in Paris (4 TONY Awards, London, National Tour), Ann, (Holland Taylor) (Lincoln Center); Bandstand, Peter and the Starcatcher (5 TONY Awards); Norman Conquests (TONY). Other: Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Beebo Brinker Chronicles (2008 GLAAD Media Award); Groundswell, The 39 Steps; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (London). Film: Radium Girls.
Blair Russell
(Producing Partner) is a producer who specializes in developing new works for the theatre. Recent projects include the new musical Lizard Boy, which has been performed in 4 countries including Off-Broadway, For Tonight, which premiered in concert on the West End at the Adelphi Theatre, DIVA: Live From Hell! (Edinburgh, Off West End), and Pop Off, Michelangelo! (Edinburgh, Off West End). He was a producer on Slave Play which held the record for most Tony-nominated play in history, is developing the new musical Salem which has over 50k followers on social media, and executive produced the first two concept albums in the EPIC series which have over 150 million streams globally. Other projects as co-producer / investor include The Wiz (National Tour/Broadway 2024), Sweeney Todd (Immersive Off-Broadway 2017), and Gyspy with Imelda Staunton (West End 2014). Blair is Co-Chair of the Board of The New Harmony Project and a member of the Board of Trustees of Goodspeed Musicals and SPACE on Ryder Farm. He is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Technical Theatre/Stage Management.
Judith Manocherian
(Associate Producer) Broadway: The Wiz, Pictures From Home, The Great Society, The Prom (Drama Desk), The Lifespan Of A Fact and Once On This Island (Tony). Off-Broadway: N/A, Fern Hill and Smart Blonde. Film: A Call to Spy and No One Called Ahead (Prime). Podcast: Bite Sized Broadway (Spotify)
Hal Diamond
(Associate Producer) is Lead Creative Producer of Teacher Man, a new play adapted from Frank McCourt's bestselling memoirs 'Tis and Teacher Man, the sequels to Pulitzer Prize winner Angela’s Ashes. Hal is a graduate of TRU’s Producer Master Class.
Colt Coeur Theater
Colt Coeur is a Brooklyn-based theatre company founded in 2010. Our original, story-driven, visceral theatre embraces the power of intimate live performance—it pulls you close and doesn’t let go. Our community of artists nurtures and invests in diverse perspectives to produce work that challenges the boundaries between tradition and experimentation. We embrace the ambivalence, terror and exhilaration of our time with theatre that is an antidote to the pervasive cultural illness of loneliness. We explore themes of coming-of-age, individual and collective identity, nostalgia and history, public versus private, love, lust, and loss. Through our unique collective process, every theatre artist—actor, playwright, designer—takes part in shared invention and collaborative creation; creating heart- and mind-opening audience experiences unlike any other. We nurture the next generation of theatre artists by providing access, education and a professional pipeline, while amplifying voices and perspectives that have historically been sidelined.