David Cote (born December 22, 1969) is an American writer. Early years Cote was born and adopted in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Education After kindergarten and middle school, Cote attended Gilford High School (GHS), graduating in 1988. At Gilford, he acted in drama club productions such as West Side Story, Up the Down Staircase and Macbeth. He edited GHS's newspaper and its literary journal. He attended Bard College, graduating in 1992 with a B.A. in Drama/Dance. While at Bard, he also studied early modern English literature, concentrating on Shakespeare's Henriad (Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and Henry V). Among his stage roles at Bard were Boris in Maxim Gorky's Children of the Sun; Len in Harold Pinter's The Dwarfs; Sganarelle in Molière's Dom Juan; Simon Bliss in Noël Coward's Hay Fever; and Second Lieutenant Ralph Clark in Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good. In addition to acting, Cote studied voice, directing, and 20th-century drama. He wrote dramatic scenes and poetry as well as academic papers. Acting in New York City After graduation, Cote moved to New York, where he joined Purgatorio Ink Theater, the company of his former Bard professor, Assurbanipal Babilla. With Babilla and Purgatorio, Cote acted in several plays at notable Off-Off-Broadway venues: The Rise and Fall of H. M. Dick at P.S. 122; Suddenly Something Recklessly Gay or Cirque de Ca-Ca and All About Jeez or The Sacred Squirt, both at La MaMa E.T.C.; Homo Americanus at Bouwerie Lane Theatre; The Sisters Karamazov at One Dream Theatre; and Othello and the Circumcisèd Turk at the Vineyard Theatre. All productions were written, designed and directed by Babilla. In 1998, Cote directed Babilla in his monologue, Something Something Über Alles (Das Jackpot) at the Emerging Collector on Second Avenue. The production ran for three months. It took part in the New York International Fringe Festival and had a limited run at the Kraine Theater in early 1999. Throughout this period, Cote acted in work by various writers and directors associated with Richard Foreman's Ontological Hysteric Theater, housed in St. Marks Church. He worked with writer-directors such as Robert Cucuzza (Be Emphatic!), DJ Mendel (Tom, Dick & Harry), Anne DeMare, Judy Elkan and others. In 1997, Cote played a Large Male Dwarf in Foreman's Pearls for Pigs. The production opened at Hartford Stage and toured France, Italy, Los Angeles, Portland, Dartmouth and New York City. In 1999, he appeared