THE SURGEON AND HER DAUGHTERS
BY CHRIS GABO
DIRECTED BY ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT
PREVIEWS START NOV 23, 2025
This fall, we’re thrilled to launch our 15th Anniversary Season with The Surgeon and Her Daughters by Chris Gabo, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt. Chris and Adrienne first workshopped this play in the (beloved and sadly shuttered) Cherry Lane Mentor Project in 2016. After a talkback following a performance of Still in February, Adrienne and (Surgeon actor and Colt Coeur company member) Eden Marryshow were talking about the state of the world and how compelled we feel as theatre artists to tell stories that hold and interrogate the socio-political tensions of our time; and how much that feeling had us thinking about Surgeon. We reached out to Chris - and here we go!
With the recent passing of our friend, Surgeon actor and visionary generative artist Zaza / Diana Oh, we feel even more compelled to tell this story now. Our production will be dedicated to their memory.
A 21st-century Les Miserablés, The Surgeon and Her Daughters is an epic and intimate play about family, grief, and how we stay afloat amidst seemingly insurmountable odds. Diving unflinchingly into the ‘melting pot’ that is New York City, the play explores the slipperiness of truth and justice, the thorniness of honor and redemption, and the sensation of being a crab at the bottom of the barrel.
With a cast of six and an original score, The Surgeon and Her Daughters is also the ‘largest’ play Colt Coeur has produced since our 2019 premiere of Eureka Day.
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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!