OCTOBER 14 - NOVEMBER 22, 2025
At The Bushwick Starr

Written and performed by David Cale
Directed by Les Waters

AWARD-WINNING THEATER ARTISTS DAVID CALE AND LES WATERS UNITE TO PREMIERE A POWERFUL, INTIMATE NEW PLAY

A writer from New York travels to Ketchum, Idaho to work on a film script set in Sun Valley. His plans and life take a wildly unanticipated turn after he has a chance encounter with an elusive ranch hand at the town’s annual "Trailing of the Sheep Festival". Blue Cowboy, the new solo work from David Cale, is the frank and sexually explicit story of two men from very different worlds. One who is open about his life, and the other whose life remains a self-imposed mystery to everyone around him, but who both share a profound need to intimately connect to another human being. Cale tells the story in his signature style full of vulnerability and blunt confession.

CREATIVE TEAM:
Set & Props Design: Colleen Murray, Costume Design: Kaye Voyce, Lighting Design: Mextly Couzin, Sound Design: Tei Blow, Stage Manager: Siena Yusi, Assistant Stage Manager: Maia G. Tivony, Assistant Costume Design: Noah Willis-Hogan

Line Producer: Lucy Jackson

SPECIAL EVENTS:
10/18: Opening Night
10/21 - Bushwick Community Night
11/1 - Starr Member Night

SUPPORT + DEVELOPMENT:

Blue Cowboy was commissioned by The Sun Valley Playwright’s Residency, a special initiative of The Community Library’s Hemingway Writer-in-residence program in association with Sawtooth Productions.

Development of Blue Cowboy has been supported in part, through a residency and workshop performance at Ancram Center for the Arts (Jeffrey Mousseau and Paul Ricciardi, Directors).

Artwork by Brenna O’Brien
Production photos by Maria Baranova