David Cote is a playwright, opera librettist, and theater critic based in New York City. Plays include Saint Joe and Aristotle Punches Down (O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference semifinalist). Recent opera: Lucidity by On Site Opera in NYC; Northwest premiere at Seattle Opera; Blind Injustice at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater; and Meltdown, a solo opera about climate change at National Sawdust. Previous operas include Blind Injustice at Cincinnati Opera and Peak Performances; Three Way at Nashville Opera and BAM; and The Scarlet Ibis at Prototype festival. After the 2015 murder of Michael Brown, David wrote the text for Nkeiru Okoye’s Black Lives Matter monodrama, Invitation to a Die-In. As a journalist, David’s TV and theater writing appears in The A.V. Club, Observer, 4 Columns, American Theatre and elsewhere. He’s the author of popular companion books about the Broadway hits Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Wicked, Jersey Boys and Spring Awakening.
