Save the Date for our Benefit Bash
Sunday, October 26
Wythe Hotel, Brooklyn

This year, we are thrilled to uplift the importance of artistic mentorship, honoring decorated playwrights Sarah Ruhl and Paula Vogel, along with Colt Coeur Trustee Roberta Kelly. Each of these visionary and passionate women are both teachers & lifetime learners, and we are humbled to have the opportunity to honor them this year.

Tickets will go on sale in mid-August.

Check out last year’s Digital Auction anD start dreaming about this year’s!

5:30pm - VIP Reception (includes passed canapés and drinks)
6:15-7:15pm - Main Event Reception with drinks and nosh
7:15-8:30pm - Honoree Celebration & Performances
8:45pm - After Party // Exclusive Dinner for Artists & Honorees 

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Join us for our greatest bash yet - Sunday, October 18th at Williamsburg's stunning Wythe Hotel as we honor
Roberta Kelly, Sarah Ruhl, and Paula Vogel.

Sponsorship Opportunities begin at $2500. Click here to learn more or email Heather Cohn, coltcoeurEP@gmail.com.

Ticket Levels

$800 - Rake of Tickets (4 tickets + 1 sponsored Artist ticket)
-includes 5 main event tickets, including after party (no access to VIP reception or post-event dinner)

$500 - VIP Ticket
-includes VIP pre-Benefit cocktail reception with honorees
-recognition in the Digital Journal

$450 - Duo of Tickets
-includes 2 Main Event tickets with drinks and nosh, plus cash-bar After Party (no access to VIP reception or post-event dinner)

 $250 - Single Ticket
-includes 1 ticket to the Main Event with drinks and nosh, plus cash-bar After Party (no access to VIP reception or post-event dinner)

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One star for each year of original, hauntingly resonant, and fiercely tender theatre that has launched careers, deepened community, and challenged the boundaries of traditional storytelling!

Learn more about our honorees:

SARAH RUHL is an American playwright, author, and teacher. Her twelve plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2010; Tony Award Nominee, 2010); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2005; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); and Eurydice (Named one of the most impactful plays of the last 25 years by The New York Times). Her plays have been produced on Broadway and across the country as well as internationally and translated into fourteen languages. Most recently, Signature Theater dedicated a season to her body of work. Her opera Eurydice (with composer Matthew Aucoin) debuted at the Metropolitan Opera and earned a Grammy nomination, and her musical Wonder with A Great Big World is currently running at American Repertory Theater.  Her books include Smile, a memoir,  100 essays I don’t have time to write, and Lessons from my Teachers. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a PEN Center Award for mid-career playwrights, a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award, and a MacArthur “genius award” Fellowship. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family.

PAULA VOGEL is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose plays include Mother Play (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), Indecent (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony Award nomination, the Lortel Prize, OBIE Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle, and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play), The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz (OBIE Award), Hot’n’Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, The Oldest Profession, and A Civil War Christmas. She is the founder and Executive Producer of Bard at the Gate, and co-founder of Bards on the Bay at the Nancy Nordhoff Center, a new writers’ retreat for playwrights and theatrical composers set to open on Cape Cod in 2027. Lifetime achievement awards include the American Theatre Hall of Fame Award, the OBIE Award, and the NY Drama Critics Circle Award.  Other awards include three Tony Award nominations, a Guggenheim, and a Pew Charitable Trust Award. She is honored to have awards dedicated to emerging playwrights in her name: The American College Theatre Festival’s Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, and the Paula Vogel Award given annually by the Vineyard Theatre. She was the inaugural UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Hearst Theater Lab Initiative Distinguished Playwright-in-Residence. She founded and ran the MFA playwriting program at Brown University and served as the O’Neill Chair of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama.  Her plays are published in six volumes by TCG Press and her memoir will be published by Penguin Press. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and teaches playwriting workshops throughout the United States and abroad.  www.paulavogelplaywright.com