Bio

Adrienne Campbell-Holt (she/her) is a NYC-based director and choreographer and the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. She is the recipient of the 2018 Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award. 

Recent world premieres: Other World, by Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen & Ann McNamee, choreography by Karla Puno Garcia (Delaware Theatre Company), Afterwords, by Emily Kaczmarek, music & lyrics by Zoe Sarnak (5th Avenue Theater). Adrienne is currently developing new plays with Kareem Fahmy, Natalie Margolin, Oscar Olivo, Antoinette Nwandu, and Rick Cleveland. NY premiere of Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector (Colt Coeur), world premiere of We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber (City Theater, Pittsburgh), world premiere of Hatef**k, by Rehana Lew Mirza (WP/Colt Coeur), world premiere of Joan by Stephen Belber (Colt Coeur, starring Johanna Day), Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck at Primary Stages (November-December 2018; starring Tyne Daly and Tim Daly), Associate Director on Dear Evan Hansen, directed by Michael Greif (Broadway), world premiere of Zürich by Amelia Roper (Colt Coeur @ NYTW), world premiere of Thirst by C. A. Johnson (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Afterwords, a new musical by Zoe Sarnak and Emily Kaczmarek (Village Theater, Seattle), What We're Up Against by Theresa Rebeck (WP Theater), World premiere of Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck at Dorset Theatre Festival (starring Tyne and Tim Daly), Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet (NYU Grad), New York Indie Theater Film Festival screening of Henry + the trains, (January 2017), Matter Inc's Total Power Move, Colt Coeur's world premiere production of Empathitrax, by Ana Nogueira (HERE), One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro (NYMF, 2016), Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl (Dorset Theater Festival), world premiere of Cal in Camo (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Kings by Sarah Burgess (Pipeline Festival, WP Theater, Spring 2016),world premiere of Christopher G. Nuñez's The Surgeon and her Daughters (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), world premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s The Nest (Denver Theatre Company), One Child Born (Oberon at American Repertory Theater), world premiere of How to Live on Earth by MJ Kaufman (Colt Coeur @ HERE, September 2015), Dental Society Midwinter Meeting by Laura Jacqmin at Williamstown Theater Festival (Foeller Fellowship), world premiere of Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur @ HERE, NYC), Red starring Tim Daly (Dorset Theater Festival, VT), world premiere of Greg Moss’ REUNION (South Coast Rep), world premiere of Everything is Ours by Nikole Beckwith (Colt Coeur @ HERE), world premiere of Eliza Clark's Recall (Colt Coeur @ Wild Project), Flu Season (American Conservatory Theater, SF), world premiere of Lucas Kavner's Fish Eye (Colt Coeur @ HERE), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Yale), world premiere of Steven Levenson's Seven Minutes in Heaven (Emerging America Festival, Huntington Theater Company and Colt Coeur @ HERE). In Spring 2022, she directed 5th Avenue Theater’s world premiere of Afterwords, “a captivating new musical that fuses pop, rock, and modern indie-folk to tell the story of three young women coping with loss.”

Adrienne was a Time Warner/Women’s Project Lab 2014-2016 Fellow, a recipient of the Bill Foeller Fellowship at Williamstown Theatre Festival, a Jerome Foundation/Tofte Lake Fellowship, the EST/Sloan grant, an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist and Audrey Resident. She has developed work with La Jolla Playhouse, the Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick, Women’s Project Theater, IAMA, New Georges, Playwrights’ Center, Portland Center Stage, and the Ensemble Studio Theater.

Film/Video Projects

• The Make it Fair project - a call for gender equality in the stories we tell, the wages we earn, and the future we shape. [The first video involves a cast and crew of more than 70 women, underscoring the wealth of female talent that often goes untapped.] 

• Henry + the trains Original short film (NYITFF 2017)

• Autobiography of Red, a short film adapted from Anne Carson’s novella of the same name
  My very simple website.

Adrienne has recently been featured in People.com, Broadway Women's Fund "25 Women to Watch on Broadway.” Her website is adriennecampbellholt.com.