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Copy:\xa0David Cote\xa0is a theater critic, playwright, and opera librettist who has written for numerous publications such as\xa04 Columns,\xa0Observer,\xa0The A.V. Club\xa0and\xa0Time Out New York. He\u2019s written popular companion\xa0books\xa0about the Broadway hits\xa0Moulin Rouge! The Musical,\xa0Wicked, Jersey Boys, and\xa0Spring Awakening. His operas have been produced in New York, London, Nashville, Chicago, and Cincinnati. In his past life as an actor, he worked with Richard Foreman, Richard Maxwell and Iranian exile auteur Assurbanipal Babilla. He is also one of three artists taking part in the inaugural\xa0Ecker Fellows Program\xa0at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, which aims to explore connections between psychoanalysis and art \u2014 therefore he is a perfect guest/patient and our session does not disappoint.\nDavid is from a tiny town in New Hampshire\u2014Gilmanton Iron Works, which has a population of 3,945 (it was about 2,200 when he grew up). Grace Metalious\u2019 scandalous bestselling novel and TV show\xa0Peyton Place\xa0was inspired by the town. Taken from his bio, he self-describes as \u201ca weird little adopted kid in rural New Hampshire devouring my\xa0Globe Illustrated Shakespeare.\u201d\nDavid and I take a deep dive into his growing up as an adopted child and what that meant to him personally, and how it affected his life up until now, after he has faced a tragedy of losing his wife,\xa0Katy, to cancer at the way-too-young age of 48. They were together for nine years. David talks about how he met his wife, their first date, her career in\xa0audiobooks, and about grief, in a way that you can sense how it affects him. Through this, you can see how David's passion and connection to his writing practice illuminate the power in the way creative work can help us live.