David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thrilled to share that an opera I've been developing with Scott Davenport Richards and Robin Guarino will be part of next year's return of the great VOX opera lab! Our opera is called ROBESON/MOSCOW, it's big, and scarily relevant to [waves arms around] www.voxamericanopera.org/finalists 221
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 12/07/2026live your life so "effortlessly posh" is in your obit headline 042
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 26/01/2026New work by Ella Baron, political cartoonist at @theguardian.com 010
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Reading Dorothy Parker on her theater beat more than a century ago, you reflect… maybe things ain’t quite so bad today? 040
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Recently awarded a NYSCA grant through an application made with Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, New York upstate. With composer Alejandro Zuleta, I'm writing an oratorio called The Lemon Grove Incident, based on an actual school segregation court case in California in 1931. Excited to get working! 050
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 18/08/2025At this point I'd almost respect a bunch of European leaders bribing the villain with $1B to get behind Ukraine. 010
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Glad to catch up with rising playwright Sophie McIntosh's ROAD KILLS, a dark, funny, gross comedy about the collision of human and animal on a Wisconsin highway. Body horror and country noir, snappy dialogue and a resourceful production. Now through Sept 6 www.tickettailor.com/events/gooda... 041
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Just wrapped up four weeks @yaddocommunity.bsky.social -- a residency I thought I could only dream of attending. Amazing time. I worked on the libretto for a new oratorio and expanded a play that began life a year ago during a silent retreat. Feeling very grateful. 160
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 11/08/2025not concerning at all. Does "Trumpington" have a nice ring? 010
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 05/05/2025How can a trustworthy & practical reviewing model be cultivated for audio fiction? On May 21st at 6pm at the Salmagundi Club, I'll be chatting about criticism and the burgeoning field of audio fiction on a panel with producer par excellence Mimi O'Donnell! FREE www.eventbrite.com/e/breaking-t... 231
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 13/04/2025I once met a writer named Beckett, Never spun a yarn but he’d wreck it. “They give birth astride a grave… “Will you buy the next round, Dave?” “Ah, Sam,” says I, “just feck it.” 020
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Oh yeah RIGHT Spelling Bee, never heard of that ever, suuuure 030
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 15/02/2025TIL that Katie Mitchell has an official lewk for her Royal Court promo vids. 000
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 12/02/2025When you don’t know whether to save for posterity or delete for sanity 231
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 08/02/2025I make opera. This is the second production this week in NYC. Meltdown. At National Sawdust. That’s all 170
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Okay now it's real Feb 3 & 4 at Rose Theater www.mastervoices.org/events/blind... 040
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Still bitter I was not asked to write the #Wicked Coloring Book. 020
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 18/01/2025This is great! Just show this to him and he’ll start to undermine his policies out of bitter envy and resentment. 000
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 18/01/2025This week's #Wordle sentence. Quest for Fire Edition! “Crawl to the flint in your dingy cloak and once you’ve got the total knack of it, we’ll have a nice, fancy fire.” 1/16: FLINT 1/15: KNACK 1/14: FANCY 1/13: CLOAK 1/12: TOTAL 1/11: DINGY 1/10: CRAWL 000
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 10/01/2025New #Wordle sentence. Mythological Social Criticism Edition "Relax, Atlas, and drain a draft: The world’s gone cyber and weighs less than a cheap sprig of dill." 1/9: WAFER 1/8: DRAFT 1/7: ATLAS 1/6: SPRIG 1/5: CYBER 1/4: RELAX 1/3: CHEAP 000
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 01/01/2025I made turmeric couscous with kale pesto and chopped olives, onion, garlic roasted broccoli and red beans and mozzarella cubes and it’s my culinary depiction of 2025 020
David Cote @davidcote.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Just saw Umbrellas of Cherbourg at Film Forum. Most lickable film ever made 130
