// As Playwright //
THE MAD GAY KING
CAST: 4 // 70 MINUTES
A queer retelling of the life and love of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a decadent 19th century monarch deposed by his conservative government on the grounds of homosexual insanity. A year after the forcible deposition and mysterious death of his lover the King, equerry Richard Hornig revisits scenes from their romance, tracing the intimate obsessions that drove them together and the societal forces that tore them apart
PREMIERE: King’s Head Theatre, London, UK (2024)
workshop: OmniBus Theatre, London, UK (2023)
Staged reading: Soho theatre, London, UK (2023)
Staged Reading: Garvanza Gardens, Los Angeles, US (2023)
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THE DEW COLLECTORS
Cast: 7+CHORUS // 100 Minutes
The young dancers of a ballet company, burdened by an obsessed directress to carry the fading glory of a once-famous dance, are seemingly possessed, provoked and liberated by the queer, vengeful spirit of their mysteriously deceased choreographer. A gay ghost story adorned with high camp artifice, Adams-Cohen’s text lays a lyrical groundwork for a sensational multimedia dance theatre piece.
Staged Reading: Soho WAREHOUSE, LA, US (2022)
WORKSHOP: NAVEL SPACE, LA, US (2021)
Staged Reading: San Pasqual Gardens, LA, US (2020)
Staged Reading: Soho REVUE Gallery, London, UK (2019)
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HECATE HOUSE
Cast 6 // 90 minutes
Caught in a treacherous storm while backpacking through the Black Forest, Jewish-American siblings Billie and John are offered shelter by a pair of dreamy Bavarian sisters who have seemingly raised one another in an abandoned old hunting lodge. Upon discovering the house’s connection to the cult of an ancient moon goddess, the group is unwittingly initiated into a transformative ritual which will force them to confront a painful collective past, face their darkest fears, and indulge their most carnal desires.
Production: Delphi Theater, Berlin, GER (2019)
Staged Reading: Theaterhaus Mitte, Berlin, GER (2019)
Workshop: Littlefield NYC, Brooklyn, US (2018)
Staged Reading: Montserrat, LA, US (2017)
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SALOME
Cast 4 // 120 Minutes
When Salome’s mother arrives demanding he sign away his shares of the family estate, he refuses—and she threatens to lodge herself in the dingy apartment he shares with his street hustler boyfriend, Joe, until he does. The relationship between mother and son elevates to a raging sexual rivalry, as an explosive battle of class, gender and sexuality plays out between the mother, her prodigal son and their brutish lover. Adams-Cohen’s new version of the infamous Biblical tale ‘incites a militantly erotic epiphany for the 21st Century’ (Showmag).
