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We're thrilled to announce that we will be bringing BABY COW to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August of 2026. Your donation will support our ambitious goal of bringing a 6-person play overseas to an international audience. Funds go toward actor and director pay, costumes and set pieces, application fees for the festival, marketing and legal needs, and travel and lodging. We would not be where we are today without the incredible outpouring of support. With your help, this show can see incredible growth. For a more detailed breakdown of our fund distribution, please don't hesitate to reach out!
ABOUT BABY COW
At Manne, an exclusive New York pop-up restaurant, one dinner becomes the undoing of everyone involved. Out front, the dining room gleams: curated plates, curated personalities, curated lives. Jessica, a rising finance executive, has orchestrated the night with military precision—her husband, her billionaire boss, and his acerbic food-critic wife—all seated for what she hopes will be the meal that secures her long-promised promotion.
Behind the kitchen door, a very different version of the evening is unfolding. Johnson, Manne’s hyper-competent maître d’, is juggling far more than reservations. As both the face of hospitality and the emotional hinge between worlds, he navigates fraying nerves, and the fragile marriage he shares with Richard, Manne’s brilliant but combustible chef. Add to this the unexpected arrival of Melanie Goodman, the aforementioned food critic, and the kitchen becomes its own pressure cooker—one with no safety valve.
Just as the front-of-house farce reaches a fever pitch—increased levels of intoxication, spiraling confessions, and a raucous offstage “fight”—the play rewinds. In a sharp, theatrical pivot, BABY COW retells the same disastrous night from the kitchen’s perspective, revealing more hidden betrayals, and the messy contradictions between the stories we perform and the lives we actually live. What sounded like a fight is revealed to be loud sex; what looked like control is actually crazed panic; and every character’s certainty unravels beneath the weight of their own ambition.