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.
After graduation, Cote moved to New York, where he joined Purgatorio Ink Theater, the company of his former Bard professor, Assurbanipal Babilla.
[4] 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.
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.
[6] The production opened at Hartford Stage and toured France, Italy, Los Angeles, Portland, Dartmouth and New York City.
Cucuzza later filmed Speed Freaks, and Cote reprised his role as dim-witted drug chef Karl.
[7] In 1996, Cote co-founded and edited OFF, a journal for alternative theater with actor and graphics designer Jenny Woodward.
[12] After more than a decade of acting and journalism, Cote decided to branch into more creative writing areas, namely, plays and opera libretti.
[18] Cote has written essays for the Best Plays Yearbook series on Shining City by Conor McPherson, Blackbird by David Harrower and The Receptionist by Adam Bock.