JUNE 1 AT THE ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY
Women hold the pen. Women hold the room. And on June 1st, women will hold the stage. The Neo-Political Cowgirls present ANDROMEDA'S SISTERS, a one-night evening of performance starring Orange is the New Black’s Catherine Curtin (Orange is the New Black), a panel with Miriam Raacha (CEO Broadway Housing Communities), EVLovesNYC discussing on-the-ground mutual aid at The Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater (336 W. 20th St., NYC). Directed and moderated by Kate Mueth, founder and artistic director of The Neo-Political Cowgirls. doors open at 5:30 PM with a reception; the show begins at 7 PM. Tickets are $50–$500 at https://npcowgirls.ticketspice.com/andromedas-sisters-2026
ANDROMEDA’S SISTERS is a party, performance, and panel where Arts meet Advocacy, and where women hold the pen. Women who write begin the conversation. Performers carry it forward. And women working tirelessly in our communities deepen it, activate us, and move us toward the world we wish to see. This is where women of creativity and courage breathe their gifts into a gathered audience, leaving them activated, connected, and inspired. Because the power of the arts married with advocacy is the fiery spirit and wisdom that women authentically hold, and right now, the world needs much more of it.
Website: https://npcowgirls.ticketspice.com/andromedas-sisters-2026
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Betty Schneider is the stage manager. Publicity by Katie Rosin/Kampfire PR. With the support of ART/NY and The Rota Foundation.
BIOGRAPHIES
KATE MUETH (Creator) founded the award-winning THE NEO-POLITICAL COWGIRLS (NPC) 18 years ago to help fill the dearth of opportunities for and stories from the perspectives of women and the under-represented on our theater landscape. She conceives, writes, choreographs, and directs new, site-specific theater and dance theater that is “Mind-bending, gorgeous, provocative and wild” in execution. Kate is an Equity actor, a proud Board Member and Officer Emeritus for The League of Professional Theatre Women, and co-founder of The East Hampton Arts Council. Kate has worked as an actor/director/choreographer with such luminaries as Blythe Danner, Cathy Curtin, Aida Turturro, Tony Walton, Peter Boyle, Laura Gomez, Florencia Lozano, and more. She has performed and/or directed at Lincoln Center, Bay Street Theater, Guild Hall, in Berlin, Helsinki, and in regional venues. The She-Wolves was built with funding support from The National Endowment for the Arts grant Shakespeare in American Communities and had a summer 2024 run at LongHouse Reserve, visited local East End schools, and now makes its NYC debut presented in its next iteration. NPC is the standing Performing Arts company in residence at LongHouse Reserve, where in 2023, Kate created three performances to activate the gorgeous sculpture and garden grounds. NPC’s 2023 production, THE DREAMER (A Midsummer Night’s Dream Through The Eyes of a Young Girl,) was also awarded grant funding from The National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest and enjoyed four lives, among them an Off-Broadway run at HERE Arts, LTV Studios on the East End, and at LongHouse Reserve. Favorite acting roles include Lady M, Varya, and Mrs. Wadhurst in Tonight at 8:30 with Blythe Danner. History of new, devised works for NPC includes BAUBO, Wody Girtch Mama, Trojan Women Redux, ZIMA!, VOYEUR, EVE, B(e)RD, and countless one-offs. HYSTERIA, a “surround fear experience,” played to East End audiences and attendees at The Old South Church in Boston in the fall of 2019. In the summers of 2016/17, her production of ANDROMEDA, a “Myth for the masses," Gave voice to the universal refugee," in its performance on the hills of Montauk under the stars. EVE, a 13-room, immersive experience, enjoyed two seasons in the Hamptons, then an Off-Broadway run in the fall of 2015 at The Gym at Judson. VOYEUR, a branded NPC site-specific experiential performance made in various unusual spaces, made its European debut in Berlin in July 2015. Kate has a lengthy biography in theater arts teaching and curriculum building over the past 30 years. Her work in conceiving, developing, directing, and teaching theater arts programs continues to annually serve and empower our community’s youth, at-risk, marginalized populations, and through creative programs for women. She has furthered her passion for Arts Education by training with the prestigious Arts Leadership program at Lincoln Center, trained with Jacob’s Pillow in their celebrated Curriculum In Motion Institute, and now serves on their advisory board. She centers her work around shifting American culture to become more invested in the performing arts as the ignition for human connection, problem solving, and thriving. She is mother to August Gladstone, a 2022 Emerson College graduate now residing in Los Angeles working for 3Arts Entertainment as he builds towards becoming a showrunner and writing for film and television. She is proud to share her life with the talented Josh Gladstone, her favorite collaborator. Kate splits her time with work between East Hampton, NYC, nationally and internationally, and loves working in college and university settings. www.npcowgirls.org
*The Arts hold a profoundly important responsibility to hold the pen for our times, to contradict inhumane proclivities by those in power, and to put forward a bold vision of a better world.
THE NEO-POLITICAL COWGIRLS is a not-for-profit devising dance theater company dedicated to exploring, celebrating and amplifying the human voice.
Founded in 2007 by Kate Mueth, we are committed to making work for women and the strategically under-represented while creating a space where artists, students and audience from all walks of life can share their perspectives and stories through professional performances, workshops and arts and advocacy forums.\u2028\u2028Storytellers at heart, we want our audience to feel involved. We believe in breaking down conventional walls that traditionally separate audiences and actors.\u2028\u2028We also believe in connecting through active conversations, the arts and community activism. That’s why we hold creative workshops and build resilient spaces for people from all walks of life to come together in bold and inspirational ways.
NPC creates and presents our work in our home community on the East End of Long Island before sharing it Off-Broadway, regionally and internationally. Bold new works by NPC include The Weird Sisters, Trojan Women Redux, EVE, The Dreamer, Baubo, Andromeda, Voyeur, Macbeth, The She-Wolves, Wody Girtch Mama, ZIMA!, Bérd, others as well as a multitude of one-offs. Our signature arts and advocacy forum, Andromeda’s Sisters, is a labor of love connecting and amplifying women of creativity and courage through an engaging performance gathering for folks from all walks of life as a means to build the world we wish to see.
NPC is a multi-year grant awarded from The National Endowment for the Arts, NYSCA, Suffolk County, and the Town of East Hampton.
The Neo-Political Cowgirls acknowledge that we devise, perform, and are in community on the stolen land of The Shinnecock and Montauk People. We honor the humanity, stories and rights of their ancestors past, present and future.
EVLovesNYC is an organization addressing food insecurity in NYC that has served over 790,000 free hot meals since its inception in April 2020. On the weekends, we run our volunteer-led Community Commissary, where 40 volunteers assemble to prep, cook, package, and coordinate two dozen pickups and distributions of over 2,600 meals per week across the five boroughs. Our weekday program, Cafewal, serves as a workforce training program where asylum seekers, refugees, and other economically disadvantaged New Yorkers participate in a paid culinary training program in an effort to place them in full-time jobs at some of your favorite restaurants in NYC.
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