Chloé Hayat

Chloé Hayat

Chloé Hayat is a Lebanese-American playwright, dramaturg, and producer from Roosevelt Island, New York. Her work has been seen and developed as a part of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group, Space on Ryder Farm, Noor Theatre, The SWANA Writer’s Co-Op, Serials with the Fled Collective, The Flea, Theater Accident, Ithaca College, Manhattan Film Institute, Young Playwrights Inc., and SUNY Purchase....
Chloé Hayat is a Lebanese-American playwright, dramaturg, and producer from Roosevelt Island, New York. Her work has been seen and developed as a part of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group, Space on Ryder Farm, Noor Theatre, The SWANA Writer’s Co-Op, Serials with the Fled Collective, The Flea, Theater Accident, Ithaca College, Manhattan Film Institute, Young Playwrights Inc., and SUNY Purchase.

She is passionate about creating supportive and productive artistic environments that encourage the development of new plays and effective and joyful collaboration. She has stage managed and assisted hundreds of readings, workshops, and productions at New Dramatists, Clubbed Thumb, The Brick, and The Flea. She has been in involved in the creation of After-School Special Theatre, and Breaking and Entering. She served as the curator of the Hit and Run Reading Series with Theater Accident, and is currently a member of the Fled Collective and the SWANA Writer’s Co-Op with Playwright’s Horizons.

She’s also a professional makeup artist, an amateur baker, an aspiring burlesque performer, and the lucky owner of a piece of the Abraham Lincoln deathbed.

Plays

  • The End of Incorporated Filth
    Ladies and gentlemen, those of you in between, or none of the above: We welcome you hungrily to the Eltinge Theater in the year 1937. You’re invited to attend the filthiest and most fabulous (well, ok... the only) burlesque show left standing after the crackdown on explicit, illicit pansy and strip shows. And lucky you, you’ve caught our final performance. We’ve got the cops on our asses, but we’ll make sure...
    Ladies and gentlemen, those of you in between, or none of the above: We welcome you hungrily to the Eltinge Theater in the year 1937. You’re invited to attend the filthiest and most fabulous (well, ok... the only) burlesque show left standing after the crackdown on explicit, illicit pansy and strip shows. And lucky you, you’ve caught our final performance. We’ve got the cops on our asses, but we’ll make sure you get first dibs… Come see how (or if) we last the night!
  • Madame Couché's Hot Tarts End the French Revolution
    “Madame Couché's Hot Tarts End the French Revolution” follows the title character, bawd of the second most profitable brothel in Paris, as she tries to regain customers during the French Revolution. But when Madame Couché co-founds a dildo operation, the streets of Paris turn bloody as the courtesans fight to become the most coveted prostitutes in Paris.
  • Star of Lennox
    Star of Lennox is a contemporary ensemble musical (4 lead characters, with a chorus of at least 6) set in London at the end of the 19th century. Celia Lennox is the headliner of the failing Joie de Vivre Music Hall Club in London when aspiring composer Jasper Lamoureaux falls in love-at-first-sight with the club and the girl. It slowly becomes clear that Jasper isn’t the ingénue he presents himself to be. When...
    Star of Lennox is a contemporary ensemble musical (4 lead characters, with a chorus of at least 6) set in London at the end of the 19th century. Celia Lennox is the headliner of the failing Joie de Vivre Music Hall Club in London when aspiring composer Jasper Lamoureaux falls in love-at-first-sight with the club and the girl. It slowly becomes clear that Jasper isn’t the ingénue he presents himself to be. When Celia finds herself metaphorically trapped in Jasper’s clutches (by way of a coaxed and rushed marriage), Jasper decides the only way to rid himself of the wife he no longer desires is to send her to a Woman’s Asylum for Hysteria. Act Two of this play is experimental and sound/movement based, as it follows Celia’s experience in the asylum and her journey to her breaking point.
  • Spirit Journeyz
    Spirit Journeyz is about a disenfranchised, feuding ghost hunting reality show hired to cleanse a deeply troubled family of "evil spirits." Big changes and a crisis of faith in the Spirit Journeyz Gang have frayed the once-harmonious friendship to a breaking point and have set up a dramatic “lockdown” investigation at the Brigg’s family home. The demonic apparitions haunting Hugo and his daughter...
    Spirit Journeyz is about a disenfranchised, feuding ghost hunting reality show hired to cleanse a deeply troubled family of "evil spirits." Big changes and a crisis of faith in the Spirit Journeyz Gang have frayed the once-harmonious friendship to a breaking point and have set up a dramatic “lockdown” investigation at the Brigg’s family home. The demonic apparitions haunting Hugo and his daughter Rikki Marie have put great strain on the Brigg’s family, but the family of die-hard fans are in for a rude awakening when they learn that their favorite celebrity Paranormal Investigators are not the impassioned believers they expected, and perhaps their problem is too much for the gang to solve.