the surgeon and her daughters
BY chris gabo
DIRECTED BY ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT
STARRING:
Brian D. Coats, Liza Fernandez, Yadira Guevara-Prip,
Eden Marryshow, Johnny Sánchez, and Kana Seiki
creative team:
Scenic Design / Tatiana Kahvegian
Costume Design / Sarita Fellows
Lighting Design / Reza Behjat
Sound Design / Salvador Zamora
Props Design / Thomas Jenkeleit
Theatre 154, 154 Christopher street, NY, NY
NOV 23 - Dec 20, 2025
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Press agent: Emily Owens PR
TICKETS
As part of our commitment to accessibility we offer students (partial view) tickets for $10 to all preview performances.
(Bring student ID.)
General tickets range from $30-$75.
Recommended for ages 13+.
Adult themes and strong language. Please reach out to ColtCoeur@gmail.com if you have any further questions about the show.
Community Partner: Latinx Playwrights Circle
CAST
ABOUT THE PLAY
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.
Closing night of the 2016 workshop of The Surgeon and Her Daughters at the Cherry Lane Mentor Project. Clockwise from bottom left: Russell G. Jones, Dave Anzuelo, Diana Oh, Eden Marryshow, Chris Gabo, Rosa Arredondo, Adrienne Campbell-Holt, Liz Ramos
Join us for our 15th anniversary season!
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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!
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
CHRIS GABO (Playwright) is a Colombian American Writer/Producer and award-winning playwright from Tampa, Florida with an M.F.A. in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, where he studied under Tarell Alvin McCraney. His plays have been recognized by the Sundance MENA Theatre Lab, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and the Cherry Lane Mentor Project under playwright Rajiv Joseph. While contracted to an overall deal with HBO, he wrote the ‘Eladio’ series of episodes which starred Anthony Ramos in the Emmy nominated reboot of IN TREATMENT, developed two original series with producer Sam Levinson, and was staffed in the PARASITE writers room showrun by Enzo Mileti and Scott Wilson (“Fargo”) and was a Co-Producer on Season 2 of the Netflix series, MO. Gabo is currently writing a feature film for 101 Studios, following his feature for Elara Pictures (Safdie Brothers) and MGM/UA, a comedy pilot with Drew Pearce and Brett Goldstein for HBO, and an original series for A24. He has been making rap records for 20 years, his album “Hell Is Empty” is slated for Spring of 2026.
ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT (Director) is a NYC-based director and choreographer, the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur and a recipient of the Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award. Recent world premieres: Still by Lia Romeo (Dorset Theatre Festival), Dodi & Diana by Kareem Fahmy (Colt Coeur at HERE), Afterwords by Emily Kaczmarek, music &lyrics by Zoe Sarnak (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). Associate Director of Dear Evan Hansen (OBC). “25 Women to Watch on Broadway”.
ABOUT COLT COEUR
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.
Our 24-member ensemble of actors, designers, playwrights, and directors incubates the next generation of theatre artists through the development and production of new plays—which we create from scratch. Over 13 years, Colt Coeur has produced 17 world premieres, one East Coast premiere, developed nearly 50 plays, and provided free arts intensives for over 200 students. We pride ourselves on being a laboratory for exploration while also nurturing the work of emerging artists and providing them a launch pad for their visions. Colt Coeur has a tremendous reputation among artists and audiences alike. The company is renowned for its high artistic standards, and artists who work with Colt Coeur have gone on to contribute to and excel in every level of the entertainment industry. Colt Coeur has helped launch the multi-faceted careers of Timothée Chalamet, Ato Essandoh, Betty Gilpin, Steven Levenson, Ana Nogueira, and Joe Tippett, among many others.
ABOUT LATINX PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE (Community Partner)
The Latinx Playwrights Circle (LPC) is an artist-led development and production organization for Latinx(é) playwrights. Founded in 2018 by playwrights Guadalís Del Carmen and Oscar Cabrera with the mission to build a network of Latinx(é) and Caribbean playwrights nationwide in order to promote, develop and elevate their work while making their plays accessible to theater makers looking to find the next generation of American Storytellers.
LPC embraces the ever evolving landscape of Latinidad and the names used to describe this community, including Latiné, Latinx, Hispanic, and the next generation of names to come. Like language itself, this is an ever-evolving name.
For more information on our many programs and a full list of our donors please visit www.LatinxPlaywrights.com
The world premiere of The Surgeon and her Daughters is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
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