JUNE 19 — JULY 1, PART OF SUMMERWORKS 2025

wild project
195 E 3rd St.
New York, NY 10009

Featuring:
Alana Raquel Bowers 
Will Cobbs
Nina Grollman
Andy Lucien 
Grace McLean
Lizan Mitchell
Mallory Portnoy 
Suzzy Roche

Creative Team:
Book, Music, and Lyrics by: Ro Reddick
Director: Knud Adams
Music Director: Ellen Winter 
Sets: Afsoon Pajoufar
Costumes: Brenda Abbandandolo
Lights: Masha Tsimring 
Sound: Kathy Ruvuna 
Movement: Baye & Asa
Production Stage Manager: Christina Woolard

In Cold War Choir Practice, a prominent Black conservative brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays, setting long simmering tensions with his estranged family to boil. A fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, and cults —underscored by the Syracuse, NY chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus.

Tickets

$25 Students
$35 General Admission
$45 Reserved Seating
$65 Pay It Forward

Runtime

Approximately 95 minutes with no intermission.

About the Playwright:

RO REDDICK

Ro Reddick (she/her) is a queer Black playwright and songwriter who is a member of the 2025 Page 73 Writers Group. She writes off-kilter comedies (mostly); the theme songs to your late capitalist nightmares. Ro is a ’24-’25 DGF Playwriting Fellow and Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice. She is also under commission at People’s Light Theatre for their new Queerways PA commissioning and residency program. Her plays have been workshopped/developed/read with Clubbed Thumb/Page 73, Trinity Rep, The Ground Floor (Berkeley Rep), Bushwick Starr Reading Series and Williamstown Theatre Festival (NYC Reading). Other fellowships, residencies, and honors include Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination 2025 (Cold War Choir Practice), Venturous Fellowship Nomination (Throwback Island), Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting, Adele Kellenberg Seaver Fellow in Creative Writing at Brown University, La Mama Umbria International Playwright Retreat, Miranda Theatre Company Playwright Grant, and 3x O’Neill Finalist. As an actor, Ro has performed at theaters including Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf, and KC Rep; Off-Broadway in Silence! The Musical, and on screen in “The Americans,” “Louie,” and “SATC 2.” As a singer she has performed and co-written songs for a country, rock, and blues band. She also writes original songs for her plays and is an alum of the BAI Songwriting Workshop. In addition to her MFA in Playwriting from Brown, Ro has an MBA from NYU (which she has no intention of using).

About the Director:

KNUD ADAMS

Knud Adams is an Obie-winning director of artful new plays, based in New York City. He recently directed the acclaimed Broadway debut of Sanaz Toossi’s English, which Variety hailed as “one of the best plays of the decade.” He is the only director to have premiered consecutive Pulitzer Prize winners: English and Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust. Additional world premieres include: The Book of Mountains and Seas, I’m Revolting, Bodies They Ritual, The Headlands, Paris, Tin Cat Shoes, The Workshop, Asshole, and Tom & Eliza. Knud’s productions have been celebrated on "Best of the Year" lists by the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Magazine, New Yorker, and Washington Post. Knud is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist.

About The Cast

  • Meek

    ALANA RAQUEL BOWERS

    Broadway: Chicken and Biscuits. Off-Broadway: Bernarda’s Daughters (Signature Theater), What To Send Up When It Goes Down (A.R.T./NY Theaters) Regional: The Comeuppance (Woolly Mammoth/Wilma Theater). Film/TV: "After Class", “Fantasy Life” (SXSW 2025), "FBI: Most Wanted", “Dr. Death”. Producer Credits: The Black Wolfe Tone (Irish Rep/Fishamble) Transatlantic Residency (Irish Rep/Apollo Theater)

  • Smooch

    WILL COBBS

    Broadway: Tina Satter’s Is This A Room. Off-Broadway: Six Characters (LCT3). Regional includes Walter Lee in Raisin in the Sun (Arena Theater), Sly in Detroit 67' (McCarter) and Lyons in Fences (The Resident Ensemble Players at University of Delaware). TV includes Skinny John on “For Life” (ABC); “Prodigal Son” (Fox); “The Good Wife,” “Madam Secretary” (CBS); “Deadbeat” (Hulu); “The Night Of” (HBO); and “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix). Teaches acting and movement classes at Pace University, Brooklyn College and Yale's Summer Session.

  • Chorus

    NINA GROLLMAN

    Nina made her Broadway debut as Margie in The Iceman Cometh. She then went on to play Scout in Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill A Mockingbird. She makes music under the moniker Softee and has been featured in publications such as Rolling Stone and Paper Magazine. A graduate of Juilliard, Nina can be seen in the Apple+ series, “Bad Monkey.”

  • Clay

    ANDY LUCIEN

    TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Prime), “The Blacklist” (NBC), Marvel’s “Daredevil” (Netflix), “Elementary” (CBS), “Madam Secretary” (CBS) Film: Pretty Doesn’t Hurt, Seven Lovers, Vox Lux, Theater: Off-Broadway: Signature Theater, MTC, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theater, Rattlestick. Regional: Actors Theater of Louisville, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Studio Theater.

  • Chorus

    GRACE MCLEAN

    Broadway: Suffs, Bad Cinderella, Natasha, Pierre. Off-Broadway: Public, TNG, MCC, LCT3, Vineyard, 2ST. TV: “The First Lady” (Showtime), “The Other Two” (HBO). Richard Rodgers (writing), Lortel (performance) for In the Green. Scores for film (Marina - Gotham Award), theater (Lunar Eclipse, The Apiary). Debut album "My Lovely Enemy" "brilliant" - Rolling Stone.

  • Virgie

    MALLORY PORTNOY

    Broadway: Oklahoma! Other New York Credits: A Party With Comden and Green, Most Happy, California, Privacy, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Inspired by True Events. TV: “American Horror Story” (FX), “American Rust” (Amazon Prime), “The Good Fight” (Paramount+), “Grace and Frankie” (Netflix), “Helpsters” (Apple TV). Film: Maestro. Training: University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign, Juilliard.

  • Chorus

    SUZZY ROCHE

    Suzzy Roche (singer, songwriter, performer, author) is a founding member of the singing group The Roches, and an associate member of The Wooster Group. Suzzy has written and recorded music for fifty years, penned two novels, and most recently enjoys singing and recording with her daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche.

  • "Few theater companies have as impressive a record of championing emerging talent as Page 73."

    ~ Time Out NY

Getting to wild project is easy!

wild project
195 E 3rd St.
New York, NY 10009

Subway

  • F to 2nd Ave. (closest)

  • 6 to Bleecker St.

  • B/D/F/M to Broadway-Lafayette

  • 6/N/R to Astor Place & 8th St.

Nearest Parking

Edison ParkFast at 167 Essex St. btw Stanton and Houston (about a 6 minute walk) [map]

Recommended Restaurants & Bars near the Connelly Theater

wild project is wheelchair accessible from street level.

Cold War Choir Practice 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 and is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with The City Council.