The Heath

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$5 NIGHT: February 13, 7:30 pm (Tickets on sale at 4:30 pm)

WINE DOWN FRIDAY: February 15, post-show

MRTEA: February 17, 1:30 pm

COOKIE MATINEE: February 20, 1:30 pm

LOWELL NIGHT: February 21, 7:30 pm (Tickets on sale at 4:30 pm)

ASK THE ARTISTS POST-SHOW DISCUSSION: February 21 and 28

EDUCATOR & MILITARY DISCOUNT DAY: February 23, 4:00 pm

TALK BACK WITH HISTORIAN ROBERT FORRANT: February 24, post-show (after 2pm Matinee)

LADIES NIGHT: February 28, 6:00 pm (must RSVP)

OPEN CAPTIONING: March 3, 2:00 pm

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Thu, Feb 21 SPECIAL PANEL EVENT A Talk with D'Youville Life and Wellness: Coming to Terms with a Relative's Dementia
Immediately after the 7:30 p.m. show on Thursday, February 21.
Moderator: Naomi Prendergast, Executive Director, D'Youville Life and Wellness Community
Panelist Lisa Sobhian (LICSW, CDP), Director of Dementia Services and Life Enrichment Programs at D'Youville, will discuss the effects on the family when a relative has a form of dementia, such as Alzheimer's, from the point of view of a clinician, and Sharon Hatch will approach the topic from the angle of a family member. Sharon Hatch has been caring for her mom, with dementia, for the last several years. Her mother currently resides at D’Youville Life & Wellness community on their Dementia Special Care Unit and Sharon is passionate about helping other families navigate through this journey.

Sun, Feb 24
SPECIAL SPEAKER
Post-Show Discussion with Dr. Robert Forrant
Presented by Mass Humanities
Immediately after the 2 p.m. show
Sunday, February 24
The renowned historian will discuss the historical links between Lowell and The Heath. Dr. Forrant is the distinguished History Professor and Senior Research Fellow at UMass Lowell. He teaches courses on labor issues, immigration, and international development. He will soon release a book on the industrial history of the Connecticut River Valley and New England.

Sat, Mar 2
BRUNCH for The Heath at Warp & Weft
Downtown Lowell's trendiest restaurant will host a conversation with The Heath actors Miranda Barnett and George Judy during brunch. The actors will discuss the process of creating these illuminating, original characters.
Warp & Weft, 197 Market Street
11:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 2
Reservations required by phone (978-455-6537) or online at warplowell.com

Sat, Mar 23
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Benefit
The Michelle Canning Band
A Night on the Edge!
In partnership with Merrimack Repertory Theatre’s production of The Heath
Tickets: Adults $15, Children $7
7 p.m. March 23
Chelmsford Elks Hall, 300 Littleton Road
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For more information, visit www.michellecanning.net.

Michelle Canning’s experiences with her grandfather mirror the experiences of Lauren Gunderson in her memoir play, The Heath. Michelle will perform this benefit for the eighth year in honor of her grandfather with funds going to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. Originally from North Andover, MA, and a current resident in Nashville, Michelle is known as one of the most energetic performers of bluegrass and country music in the country. A first-rate banjo player and vocalist, Canning plays a variety of instruments, including guitar and bass. Recognized for her vibrant stage presence, Michelle Canning has toured several states and seven cities across the People’s Republic of China. In 2009, Canning became the youngest person and only female ever to earn the title of New England Banjo Champion.

Creative Team

Miranda Barnett (Lauren)

Miranda Barnett (Lauren). MRT: Debut. Classically trained musician turned actor, Miranda Barnett, has enjoyed a broad performance career ranging from Rossini to Shakespeare. She is thrilled, albeit a bit daunted, to draw from her Southern roots and now tackle the banjo for this production of The Heath. A few of her favorite regional credits include La Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Bev/Kathy in Clybourne Park, Masha in Vania, Sonia, Masha, and Spike, Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show (The Warehouse Theatre), Olivia in Twelfth Night (The Distracted Globe), Raymonde Chandebise in A Flea In Her Ear, Beggar Woman/Lucy in Sweeney Todd (Centre Stage), Truvy in Steel Magnolias (Clinton Area Showboat Theatre), and member of the ten-actor cast of My Fair Lady at Triad Stage. Miranda studied voice performance at Florida State University, choral conducting at Furman University, and received an MFA in Acting from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Based in the Southeast, She is also a dialect/acting coach, director, and adjunct professor of theatre at The South Carolinian, and while she has travelled far and wide, the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains have always beckoned. Along with her husband, Aaron, and two year-old son, Wilkes, she is happy to call the beautiful city of Greenville home. Upcoming engagements include Adrienne in Cry It Out at The Warehouse Theatre and director of Good People at Centre Stage. Miranda is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association. www.mirandabarnett.com

George Judy (Actor)

George Judy is Gresdna A. Doty Professor of Theatre at Louisiana State University, where he headed the M.F.A. Acting Program and served as Artistic Director of Swine Palace, the AEA theatre-in-residence at LSU. Professor Judy is a member of Actors' Equity Association and was recently invested as a Fellow of the American Theatre at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts alongside such theatre luminaries as Michael Khan and William Esper. His credits as an actor, writer, director, and educator include work with the Royal National Theatre Studio, London, The Asolo Theatre, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, and twelve seasons with the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival, where he performed such favorite roles as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, and Polonius in Hamlet and was producer and director for USF's Plays in Progress, which developed important new works and playwrights for the American theatre. More recent credits include Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Richelieu in The Three Musketeers, Alonso in The Tempest at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and the title role in King Lear, for Swine Palace, where he has also starred as Sugar in Rising Water by John Biguenet and orginated the role of Heinar in the American Premiere of Andri Lupp's Dove. His many regional credits include a stint as a Singing Ringmaster with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey and his highly praised adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll House, premiered on the Swine Palace stage, where he also recently directed Arcadia, August: Osage County, a new stage version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and the Louisiana premiere of Adrian Hall's adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men. His award-winning adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone, published by Pioneer Drama, has been anthologized and performed across the country, and he continues work to complete a new book, Designing Life: A Practical Approach to Acting and Living, which draws on his more than 30 years teaching acting and directing to countless gifted young students now working across the country in theatre, film, and related fields.

Sean Daniels (Director)

MRT: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Villains’ Supper Club, Little Orphan Danny, Silent Sky, My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend, Women in Jeopardy!, The Making of a Great Moment, 45 Plays for 45 Presidents, Home of the Brave, Tinker to Evers to Chance, I and You, The Lion. Sean has directed at Manhattan Theatre Club (The Lion, Drama Desk Award & Theatre World Award, nominated for Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle), Lynn Redgrave (NYC), The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), St. James (West End, London – The Lion, winner of Best New Musical), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre, Old Globe, The Geffen, Playmakers Rep, A.C.T., Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Rep, Alliance Theatre, California Shakespeare, Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, Swine Palace, Neo-Futurists, Aurora Theatre, Crowded Fire and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Sean has been named “one of the top fifteen up & coming artists in the U.S., whose work will be transforming America’s stages for decades to come” and “One Of 7 People Reshaping And Revitalizing The American Musical” by American Theatre magazine. His direction and shows have won “Best Play” and “Best Director” in the Bay Area, Portland, Rochester and Atlanta. He’s previously served as the Artist-At-Large for Geva Theatre Center and spent four years at the Tony Award-winning Actors Theatre of Louisville as the theatre’s Associate Artistic Director (where he directed 17 productions including five Humana Festivals). Mr. Daniels is the former Associate Artistic Director/Resident Director of the California Shakespeare Theater and before that spent a decade as the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Dad’s Garage Theatre Company in Atlanta. He has developed new work with the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Ars Nova, PlayPenn, Lark, PlayLabs, New York Stage and Film, Asolo Rep, Goodspeed Opera, Weston Playhouse, Bay Area Playwrights, Magic Theatre and was the first American director asked to attend the Baltic American Playwrights Conference in Hiiumaa, Estonia. He’d love to hear from you, on Twitter @seandaniels or email him at sean.daniels@mrt.org.

Lauren Gunderson (Playwright)

Lauren is a playwright, screenwriter and short story author from Atlanta, GA. She received her BA in English/Creative Writing at Emory University, and her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch, where she was also a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She was named the most produced playwright in America by American Theatre Magazine in 2017, was awarded the 2016 Lanford Wilson Award from the Dramatist Guild, the 2016 Otis Gurnsey Award for Emerging Writer, and was awarded the prestigious 2014 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for her play, I and You (also a Susan Smith Blackburn and John Gassner Award finalist). That play was an NNPN Rolling World Premiere that started at Marin Theatre Company and has seen over 40 productions nationwide. she is also a recipient of the Mellon Foundation's Three-Year Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She co-authored the play Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley with Margot Melcon, which received a three-way world premiere in 2016 and is now published at Dramatists Play Publishing. It is also one of the most produced plays in American for 2017-18.

Tanya Orellana (Scenic Designer)

Tanya Orellana designs performance spaces for Theater, Dance, Opera and Puppetry. Originally from San Francisco, she is a core member of the award winning ensemble Campo Santo, participating in their intimate New Work Process, conceptualizing and designing sets alongside the writing process. Selected designs collaborations: SAPO, by Culture Clash at The Getty Villa (Los Angeles, CA), Casa de Spirits written and directed by Roger Guenveur Smith at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum (San Francisco, CA), Dry Powder directed by Jennifer King at Aurora Theatre (Berkeley, CA), Spiritrials directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph and The Mexico Premiere of Angels in America directed by Martín Acosta at Teatro Juan Ruiz de Alarcón in Mexico City. Tanya received her MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts and is the 2016 recipient of the Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award. Her design work on Angels in America will be featured in the US Emerging Designers Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial 2019.

Miranda Kau Giurleo (Costume Designer)

Miranda Kau Giurleo (Costume Design) Previous Merrimack Repertory Theatre credits include: Native Gardens, The Royale, A Christmas Carol, Chill. Other regional credits include: Dancing at Lughnasa, True West, The Effect, Flight of the Monarch, Totalitarians, Lettice and Lovage, The New Electric Ballroom, Fighting Over Beverly, Ponies, Dear Liar, Our Son's Wedding, The Heidi Chronicles, The Wind in the Willows, Calvin Berger (Gloucester Stage Company); The Scottsboro Boys (IRNE Award for Outstanding Costume Design), Allegiance (SpeakEasy Stage Company); The Convert, Matchless/The Happy Prince, Matt and Ben, Roots of Liberty (Central Square Theatre); Leftovers, Dry Land, Shockheaded Peter, She Kills Monsters, Love Person, Neighbors, GRIMM, The Good Negro, After the Quake (Company One); Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Midsummer Night's Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's 2nd Stage); Richard III, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Actor's Shakespeare Project). Miranda has also designed and built costumes for the U.S.S. Constitution Museum's original production Sailor's Wives and Sailor's Lives. She is currently on the faculty at Bridgewater State University where designs include: Gypsy, Young Frankenstein, Assassins, Pilgrims of the Night, The Foreigner, Conference of the Birds, and ThreePenny Opera. http://www.MirandaGiurleo.com

María-Cristina Fusté (Lighting Designer)

MRT: Abigail 1702 Theater: Sweat directed by Elena Araoz (People's Light Theater, PA), Anna in the Tropics (Colorado Spring Fine Arts Center, CO), Mud and The Conduct of Life by María Irene Fornés, and Prospect by Octavio Solis, all directed by Elena Araoz (BOUNDLESS theatre company, NYC), Newsies (Aurora Theatre and Atlanta Lyric, GA), In The Heights and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Aurora Theatre and Theatrical Outfit, Atlanta GA), Mariela in the Desert by Karen Zacarías (Aurora Theatre Company, Lawrenceville GA). Opera: Cecilia Valdés (Teatro Colón, Bogotá Colombia). Tosca, Bluebeard's Castle, Madama Butterfly, Don Pasquale, and L'Elisir d'Amore, all directed by Gilberto Valenzuela (Ópera de Puerto Rico, San Juan PR). Training: BA in theater University of Puetro Rico, MFA in Lighting Design from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Awards: Princess Grace Award recipient/Pierre Cardin Award in Theater 2018 (MRT), Suzi Bass Award in 2016 and 2017 for Outstanding Lighting Design on a Musical (Atlanta, GA). She is also the founder and Executive Artistic Director of Boundless Theatre Company. http://www.mcfuste.com

Daniel Erdberg (Sound Designer)

Daniel is pleased to return to Merrimack Rep, where previous work includes Native Gardens, The Lion, The White Chip, My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend, and Little Orphan Danny. Daniel’s designs have been heard at numerous New York City theatres, including The Public, Roundabout, City Center, 59E59, Atlantic, Prospect and HERE. Highlights include the American premiere of Caryl Churchill’s Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, Mike Daisey’s Last Cargo Cult and Time it Was with Bill Irwin. Regional credits include Arena Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Geffen Playhouse, ACT, Geva Theatre Center, Virginia Stage, Northshore and Long Wharf, as well as productions in Korea, Japan, China, Canada and Cuba. He is a frequent Broadway associate designer, where credits include The Iceman Cometh, Significant Other, Violet, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Heiress, and The Nance. Daniel is a member of USA829, IATSE, SDC and the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. He is a faculty member at Tisch/NYU and a graduate of Northwestern University.

Seághan McKay (Projection Designer)

Seághan McKay (Projection Designer) MRT: Little Orphan Danny, Memory House. Regional: Swan Lake, The Boston Ballet; La Boheme, The Flying Dutchman, The Boston Lyric Opera; Gershwin Spetacular: Promenade, The Boston Pops; Educating Rita, Huntington Theatre Company; Best of Enemies, Florida Rep; All the Way, TheatreSquared; Golda's Balcony, New Repertory Theatre; Sondheim on Sondheim (IRNE Award), On the Town (IRNE Nomination), Big River, Lyric Stage; A Disappearing Number (IRNE Nomination), Underground Railway Theater; Big Fish (IRNE Nomination), Carrie: the Musical, Next to Normal, Nine, Striking 12, [title of show], and Jerry Springer: The Opera, SpeakEasy Stage Company; Merrily We Roll Along, Rent, Boston Conservatory; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Light Up the Sky, Emerson Stage; Beyond the Boundaries, Hecuba, As You Like It, Brandeis Theater Company; The Threepenny Opera, Boston College; Godspell, Gordon College; Both/And, MIT Museum. Film/Television: Assistant/Editor: PBS Becoming Helen Keller Des. Peter Nigrini. Education: Boston College. Other: Lecturer in Lighting Production and Media Design at the Boston University School of Theater. www.seaghanmckay.com

Maegan Alyse Conroy (Production Stage Manager)

Maegan Alyse Conroy (Production Stage Manager) Maegan is thrilled to be returning to MRT for The Heath! Selected previous credits include stage manager on Native Gardens, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly, The Royale, and Chill (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Guards at the Taj (Central Square Theater); The Effect and A Measure of Normalcy (Gloucester Stage Company); Creditors and Ugly Lies the Bone (Shakespeare & Company); The Legend of Georgia McBride (Greater Boston Stage Company); assistant stage manager on She Loves Me, Mame, Lucky Stiff, Sweet Charity, Funny...Forum, and How to Succeed...Trying (Greater Boston Stage Company). Maegan received her BFA in Stage Management from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois. She and her husband live with their dog in Lowell, MA.

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