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$5 NIGHT: September 11, 7:30 pm (Tickets on sale at 4:30 pm)
WINE DOWN FRIDAY: September 13, post-show
MRTEA: September 15, 1:30 pm
COOKIE MATINEE: September 18, 1:30 pm
LOWELL NIGHT: September 19, 7:30 pm (Tickets on sale at 4:30 pm)
ASK THE ARTISTS POST-SHOW DISCUSSION: September 19 and September 26
EDUCATOR & MILITARY DISCOUNT DAY: September 21, 4:00 pm
LADIES NIGHT: September 26, 6:00 pm (must RSVP)
OPEN CAPTIONING: September 29, 2:00 pm
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CONTENT: Tiny Beautiful Things includes many letters written to advice columnist Sugar. These letters include references to sexual abuse/assault, abortion, drug use, suicidal thoughts, and transgenderism.
Creative Team
Lori's Off Broadway credits include Lyric is Waiting (kef productions) and Sarah, Sarah (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional credits include An Entomologist’s Love Story (San Francisco Playhouse), Clean Alternatives (Kitchen Theater Company), Detroit (Theatre Squared), Not Medea (B Street Theatre), Educating Rita (Triad Stage), Pride and Prejudice (Denver Center Theater Company), Rocket City (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival), Pirandello’s Henry IV (Repertory Theater of St. Louis), The Front Page (Playmakers Repertory), Hamlet and Key West (Geva Theatre Center), The Unexpected Guest (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), Lobby Hero (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre), The Book of Ruth (Alliance Theatre Company), A View From The Bridge (Theatrefest) and And Then They Came For Me (George Street Playhouse). Film: Before the Bomb, Epic, Last Call and 212. TV/New Media: lif-eaf/ter, Are We There Yet?, Law and Order and Law & Order: SVU. BFA in Acting from Syracuse University.
Nael is thrilled to return to Merrimack Repertory Theatre after performing in 45 Plays for 45 Presidents and It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Area credits include: Romeo and Juliet; A Doll's House; Bedroom Farce; Come Back, Little Sheba; Awake and Sing!; The Seagull; Our Town (Huntington Theatre Company), The Return (Israeli Stage), Small Mouth Sounds; A Future Perfect; Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage Company), Macbeth; Equivocation (Actors' Shakespeare Project), True West; The Flick (Gloucester Stage Company), Calendar Girls (Greater Boston Stage Company), Constellations; Sila; Distracted (Central Square Theater), Mr. Burns, a post-electric play; Intimate Apparel; Animal Crackers (Lyric Stage Company), A Number; Pattern of Life; Lungs; The Kite Runner; (New Repertory Theatre), Rhinoceros; Windowmen; Gary (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Love Person; 1001; The Aliens; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Company One), and Shear Madness (Charles Playhouse). Mr. Nacer has received IRNE and Elliot Norton awards for his work. He is a resident acting company member with Actors' Shakespeare Project and a monologue coach with My College Audition.
Caroline is excited to be making her MRT debut. Past theatre includes: Maureen in The Bluest Eye (Guthrie Theatre); Miranda in The Tempest, Iris/Hunger in Metamorphoses, Cinderella in Into The Woods, Actor 4 in We Are Proud To Present…, Company in Sweeney Todd, Company in Private Lives (Playmakers Rep); Ella in Cinderella, Margo in The Diary of Anne Frank (People’s Light); Jo in The Legend Of Georgia McBride (Hippodrome Theatre); Cassio in Othello (The Brick, NYC); Belle in Beauty and the Beast; Agnes in I Do, I Do!, Annelle in Steel Magnolias, Winnifred in Once Upon A Mattress (Redhouse Arts). Training: MFA, UNC-Chapel Hill Professional Actor Training Program. BA Music, Western Connecticut State.
Shravan is an actor and improv comedian in New York. He has performed improv at UCB Theatre and other regional theaters. He’s also an Equity stage actor and has performed at The Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, and Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC, Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, and Virginia Repertory Theatre in Richmond. In 2016, Shravan was featured in the U.S. premiere of Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem. His training includes the UCB Theatre improv curriculum, Bob Krakower's On-Camera Class, and the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory.
Jen is a Brooklyn-based director & choreographer. Her work has been seen at theaters in New York and across the country. Most recently Jen directed and choreographed the world premiere of Dog Man: The Musical, which just finished a critically acclaimed run Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Other New York credits include Less Than 50% (59E59), Surfer Girl (Animus), My Heart is in the East (La Mama), Fable (NYMF), The King’s Whore (Walkerspace); F#%king Up Everything (Elektra Theater), Estrella Cruz [The Junkyard Queen] (Ars Nova). Touring productions include Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Asolo Repertory Theatre). Regional credits include Game On (Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret); Shakespeare in Love (Virginia Rep); Into the West (Tantrum Theater); Baskerville (Dorset Theatre Festival); The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Asolo Repertory Theatre & Miami New Drama); Sweeney Todd (Playmakers Rep); The 39 Steps, Shipwrecked (Triad Stage); The Hunchback of Seville (Washington Ensemble Theatre); Bubble Boy (American Theater Group); Aloha Say the Pretty Girls (Theatre Vertigo). Jen was a co-founder and co-artistic director of Studio 42, is an affiliated artist with New Georges, an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, an associate member of Telluride Theatre, and a proud member of the SDC. She received a B.A. from Vassar College and her M.F.A. in directing from Yale School of Drama. Up next, Jen will direct the world premiere national tour of Dog Man: The Musical for TheatreworksUSA. www.jenwineman.com
Broadway: The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End: The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway: Heathers, The Last Match (Roundabout), Vietgone (MTC), Guards at the Taj (Lortel Award), Describe The Night, Our New Girl (Atlantic), Luce (LCT), Gigantic (Vineyard). TV: “Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo” (HBO), “Gotham,” “Smash,” “The Today Show.” Education: North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama. timothymackabeedesign.com, @timmackabeedesign.
MRT: Cry It Out. Past productions with Paper Mill Playhouse, The Muny (St. Louis Theater Circle Award, Seussical, The Wiz; Judy Award,) Tarzan), Weston Playhouse, Theatre Under the Stars, George Street Playhouse, Irish Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater, Pittsburgh CLO, Music Theater of Wichita, Engeman Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center, Feld Entertainment’s Disney Live, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Westchester Broadway, NYMF (Outstanding Costume Design, Claudio Quest), Cape May Stage, TheaterWorks Hartford (CT Critics Choice Award nomination, The Legend of Georgia McBride). MFA Yale School of Drama. www.LeonDobkowski.com @MrLeonD
Off-Broadway: Do You Feel Anger, Daybreak, Film Chinois, Three Trees. Other NYC credits: Wilder Gone, Pillowtalk, Orpheus in the Underworld, Bum Philips, Maria Celeste. Regional: Testmatch (ACT, San Francisco); Almost Maine, On Golden Pond, Ragtime, Passion Play, A Man of No Importance, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Redhouse, Syracuse); Hound of the Baskervilles (Gulfshore Playhouse, Naples, FL), Faust (Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia), Compulsion (Yale Rep, New Haven, CT). MFA from Yale School of Drama.
Recent designs include: King Philip’s Head Is Still On That Pike Just Down the Road (Clubbed Thumb), Ain’t No Mo’ (Public Theater), The Drinking Bird (New Ohio Ice Factory), Raja Feather Kelly’s UGLY (The Bushwick Starr), Corey and Vanessa Present an All-Female Educational Touring Production of Of Mice and Men (The Tank), Another Fucking Warhol Production (The Kitchen). Auciello is a member of the feath3r theory, a collaborator of I’m Trying, and the unofficial DJ of FEAST: A Performance Series. Love to Alex.
With MRT: Native Gardens, Abigail/1702. Recent NY: Nothing Gold Can Stay (PCP/Shelley Butler), Molly Sweeney (Keen Co), Greg Keller’s Dutch Masters (PCP/Andre Holland), The Net Will Appear (59e59). Regional: Fairview (Woolly Mammoth), Dorset Theatre Festival (10 seasons), The Royale (ATC), The Corpse Washer(Humana), The Invisible Hand (CPH), Smart People (DCPA), Cry It Out (Studio Theatre DC & DTF), etc. Film/TV: Big Dogs, Hurricane Bianca, Trick, Separation, Lost Cat Corona, Gold Star. Artios Award nominee for Best Web Series Casting, PT Barnum Award recipient. www.judybowmancasting.com
Maegan is thrilled to be returning to MRT for her second full season! Selected previous credits include Cry It Out, The Heath, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Native Gardens, The Royale (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Creditors, Ugly Lies the Bone, DibbleDance: Shoes On, Shoes Off, Private Lives, Julius Caesar (stage manager, Shakespeare & Company); The Legend of Georgia McBride (Greater Boston Stage Company); Guards at the Taj (Central Square Theatre); The Effect, A Measure of Normalcy (Gloucester 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. Maegan is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
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Tiny Beautiful Things
Based on the book by Cheryl Strayed and Adapted for the Stage by Nia Vardalos
Co-conceived by Marshall Heyman, Thomas Kail, and Nia Vardalos
Directed by Jen Wineman
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Video
Reviews
BROADWAY WORLD: TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS: 'Dear Sugar' Dispenses Joy at MRT
THE HEIGHTS: ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ Brings Advice to the Stage
THE ARTS FUSE: “Tiny Beautiful Things” — A Little Anonymity Can Bring Us Closer Together