Lucas Kavner's FISH EYE Premieres 5/27

Fish Eye is a darkly funny and emotionally raw portrait of a couple struggling to hold on to one another without losing themselves. Fish Eye explodes the traditional chronology of romance and offers a modern take on the impossible exhilaration of love-- when nothing means everything and everything means nothing--and the entire world shrinks down to a single moment.

Following their critically-acclaimed debut production (Seven Minutes in Heaven) last season, Colt Coeur developed Fish Eye in much the same way-- through a collaborative workshop process with playwright Lucas Kavner and the Colt Coeur company of actors.

Colt Coeur's inaugural production, Seven Minutes in Heaven, was a New York Times and Time Out New York critic's pick, and played to sold-out houses in New York and at The Huntington Theatre's Emerging America Festival in Boston. The play - created with founding member Steven Levenson - has since been published by Playscripts and is receiving productions throughout the country.

Colt Coeur is a New York-based theater company dedicated to making original, story-driven, aggressively visceral theater that pulls you close and doesn't let go. With its sights set on straddling the all too facile divide between "uptown" and "downtown" theater, Colt Coeur's first year has been a terrifically successful one.

Colt Coeur is a collection of actors, playwrights, and designers dedicated to making theater imbued with the urgency and intensity of the present-plays that respond to and engage with the world in which we live with compassion, humor, ferocity, and an abiding, unapologetic sense of wonder. With the company's mission to make immersive, environmental, experiential, unabashedly entertaining theater that explores themes of coming-of-age, of individual and collective identity, of public versus private, of love, lust, and loss, Fish Eye is the ideal production for Colt Coeur's sophomore season.

Fish Eye,written by Lucas Kavner, directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt, and produced by Amy Groeschel. Performances begin Friday, May 27th at 7pm, at HERE Arts Center, 145 Sixth Avenue, (Entrance on Dominick St. 1 Block South of Spring). Opening night is set for Thursday, June 2nd at 7pm. The show must close Saturday, June 18th. Tickets are $18 general admission and may be purchased at www.here.org or by phoning 212.352.3101.

Lucas Kavner's work includes the musicals Barnes & Noble: Frisco, TX (Ars Nova), Love Money (Dixon Place/NY Fringe), as well as several other short plays read or performed at The Flea, Williamstown Theater Festival, Juilliard, Naked Angels, the Baruch Performing Arts Center, and PTP/NYC. He is a member of Naked Radio, the Naked Angels writers group. As an actor, some recent credits include Six Degrees of Separation, Young Jean Lee's Pullman, WA, and Girls Day (Williamstown), and he was recently nominated for an IRNE award for his work in The Blue Flower at A.R.T. A graduate of Middlebury College, he currently works as a staff writer for The Huffington Post.

Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Director) Recent credits: The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Yale), Dead Man's Cell Phone (NYU/Tisch), Seven Minutes in Heaven (Emerging America Festival, Huntington, Boston and HERE Arts Center, NYC), Heart Torture Station (New Georges/Jam on Ice), Missed Connections (Ars Nova), One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro (Joe's Pub), The Long Tail (Abrons Arts Center), and Autobahn (NYU/Tisch). Regional work: Three Days of Rain (Amphibian Stage, Fort Worth, Texas). Adrienne has spent three summers at Williamstown where she directed the non-Equity company in plays including Daniel MacIvor's Never Swim Alone and Steven Levenson's Girls Day. She has assisted Alex Timbers (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Public), Anne Kaufman (Six Degrees of Separation,Williamstown), Michael Greif (The Three Sisters, Williamstown), and Roger Rees (Peter and the Star-Catcher, La Jolla Playhouse). She is a recent recipient of a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship, the EST/Sloan grant, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. BA Barnard College, Columbia University. Artistic Director: Colt Coeur.

The ensemble cast includes Katya Campbell, Ato Essandoh (Streamers, Roundabout), Betty Gilpin (The Language Archive, Roundabout), and Joe Tippett (Seven Minutes in Heaven, HERE).

The scenic design for Fish Eye is by John McDermott; costume design is by Jessica Pabst; lighting design is by Grant Yeager, sound design is by Daniel Kluger, properties by Amelia Freeman-Lynde and technical direction by Markus Paminger. Trisha Henson is the Production Stage Manager.

The performance schedule for Fish Eye is Wednesday through Saturday at 7pm beginning on Friday, May 27th. Opening night is Thursday, June 2nd and the final performance of Fish Eye will be Saturday, June 18th. There will be additional 7pm performances on Sunday, June 5th and on Tuesday, June 14th. Fish Eye plays at HERE Arts Center, 145 Sixth Avenue, between Spring and Broome. Tickets are $18 general admission and may be purchased at www.here.org or by phoning 212.352.3101. For more information, visit www.coltcoeur.org.