Cold War Choir Practice

9 actor/singers

It’s twilight in Ronald Reagan’s America and the specter of nuclear war hangs over the country – but rent is still due on the 1st. A young girl is embroiled in intrigue when her estranged uncle, a prominent Black conservative, brings his mysteriously ill wife home for the holidays. This darkly comedic play with music is a fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, cults... and choir practice.

NYTimes Critic’s Pick, “…a brainy new comedy that’s infused with choral music and spiked with espionage.”

Boston Globe , “Weird and wonderful…”

Finalist, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2026

Finalist, O’ Neill 2025

Upcoming: MCC Theater, co-produced by Clubbed Thumb and Page 73.

Cold War Choir Practice was developed and originally produced by Clubbed Thumb and Page 73 as part of Summerworks 2025 (dir. Knud Adams). Cold War Choir Practice was also developed and produced in September 2025 at Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI. Curt Columbus, Artistic Director, Kate Liberman, Executive Director, (dir. Aileen Wen McGroddy). 

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6 actors

This is a play about a bunch of dykes in the dangerous world of luxury paper planners. Morgan, a recent grad with a unique ability, stumbles into a prestigious design mentorship program. Under the guidance of Madam, a glamorous notebook magnate, Morgan is on her way to becoming the second most well-known producer of high-end analog time management resources in North America! If she survives her mentor, that is.

Finalist, O’ Neill 2024

Throwback Island

8 actors + 1 audience member

Six “sexy singles” go to a secluded island for true love, nostalgia soaked #goodvibes, and a chance to win $100K. But when a strongman bachelor enters the villa there’s a lot more at stake than a pot of money… Throwback Island is a dark and eerie satire that explores good old fashioned American fascism through a bonkers reality dating show. It's a play interested in how a nation constructs its identity through the performance of reality; It is an invitation to question our roles in building the narratives that power the performance. 

Development History: 2023 The Ground Floor, 2023 O’ Neill Finalist, 2023 Venturous Fellowship Nomination, 2022 Bushwick Starr Reading Series, 2022 Writing is Live Festival/Brown University

Photo credit: Maria Baranova