Yuyu Kitamura as the prospective client.
Covid & Cigarettes follows two other collections of ten-minute plays,
Coffee & Cigarettes and
Aurora Theatre founder
Nicole Garbellini always thought of these projects fondly, as they were both fun and very much community oriented. She began to put together a project that could be accessible worldwide, as well as something that could give relief to the artists involved.
Nicole Garbellini commented: “And then it hit me: what if we were to present a third volume of C&C, but with Covid as the main theme, and have it online so that the whole world could have access to it?