THE GRIEF EATER NEAR NORTH BENDER

A creature stalks the woods near North Bender. It kills the person you love most, erasing them from your memory. So a hunting party forms to track it down before it feeds again. This surreal comic fable by Dylan Guerra, directed by Dustin Wills, follows a grieving ex, his fiercely loyal sister and a partner who can’t remember the man he loved as they join forces in a local pub to bring this creature down and reclaim what they’ve lost. Silver bullets are forged. Old wounds reopen. And these unlikely comrades confront the fact that restoring what they lost might hurt more than losing it. The Grief Eater Near North Bender is a fierce and darkly funny descent into love, loss, and the cost of facing what we’d rather outrun. Ready or not. The Grief Eater Near North Bender is produced in association with Roundabout Theatre Company and will be performed at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold & Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. If you’re a member of NYTW and Roundabout and want to shift your membership package, please contact Justin at 646-793-3215. Broadway: The Cherry Orchard, In the Heights (& First National Tour). Select Off-Broadway: A Case for the Existence of God (Signature, Drama Desk & Lortel noms), Find Me Here (Clubbed Thumb), Blue Ridge (Atlantic), Fire In Dreamland (Public), Tin Cat Shoes (Clubbed Thumb), The Amateurs (Vineyard), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Public), Head of Passes (Public), The Flick (Barrow Street), Gloria (Vineyard), The Fortress of Solitude (Public), Choir Boy (MTC, AUDELCO Award), 10 Things to Do Before I Die (2ST). Regional: Arena Stage, Williamstown, Goodman, DTC, Steppenwolf, Yale Rep, The Old Globe. TV/Film: Ramon Fisher on “American Rust: Broken Justice” (Prime), “American Horror Story” (FX), “Inventing Anna” (Netflix), “Olga Dies Dreaming” (Hulu, pilot), “American Rust” (Showtime), “David Makes Man” (OWN/HBO Max), “The Shivering Truth” (Adult Swim), “Horace and Pete” (Pig Newton), “The Big C” (Showtime), “Unforgettable” (CBS). BFA in Drama, Carnegie Mellon Building (By Colin Quinn, Dir By Vince Piazza), All Of Me (New Group), Brooklyn Laundry (MTC), Wet Brain (Nominated For Best Actress From Lucille Lortel Awards) and Placebo (Playwrights’ Horizons) Maestra and Shuttle, Spindle, Needle (Clubbed Thumb), Rinse, Repeat (Signature), Devil Of Choice (Labyrinth) And She Would Stand Like This (Movement Theatre Co), Winners (EST), Red Dog Howls (NYTW), Macbeth (Public’s Delacorte), Privilege (Second Stage), Last Easter (MCC), Where’s My Money? (MTC/LAB), Dirty Story (LAB). TV Includes: “Bull,” “The Baker and the Beauty,” “Gossip Girl,” “Blue Bloods,” “Ugly Betty,” “Law and Order: SVU & CI,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “Madame Secretary,” “Kevin Can Wait,” “The Blacklist and Enemy Within.” “Keep Breathing” and “Narcos” (Netflix), “One Life to Live” (ABC). Films include: Life After You (which she also co-wrote, available on all streaming platforms), Crybaby Bridge, Destroy All Girls, Perfect Stranger, and Veronika Decides to Die. Member Of LAByrinth and EST, Usual Suspect at NYTW. Her play: Underneathmybed was produced at The Rattlestick Playwrights’ Theatre and her play Fun With Panic Attacks was produced at INTAR. Her new play Peluca Ensangrentada is in LAB’s barn series at 59 east 59th. MFA, NYU. BA, Brown. Upcoming: The Annunciation (Playwrights’ Horizons) Annie originated the role of “Alana” in Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play on Broadway, receiving a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Selected theater credits: Iowa (Playwrights Horizons, Lortel nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical); We’re Gonna Be Ok (Humana/ATL); Rapture, Blister, Burn (Huntington Theatre Company) and the original Lenora in Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear. As a member of Elevator Repair Service, Annie performed nationally & internationally in Gatz, Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf and The Sound and The Fury. Annie is a Clubbed Thumb affiliated artist, working on innumerable new plays over the past 25 years. On screen: Blue Jasmine, “Orange is the New Black,” “The Knick,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” “The Good Fight,” “Severance,” 3 Birthdays and “Hello Tomorrow” with Billy Crudup. Marquis is an actor & writer from Brooklyn, NY. He’s been in things like “When They See Us” (Netflix) and “Modern Love” (Amazon), but when he was eleven, he played Young Simba in the Lion King & he’s been chasing that high ever since. Grateful to be in North Bender with Roundabout and NYTW. Broadway: Take Me Out, Slave Play. Selected Theatre: The Glory of the World (BAM), Julius Caesar (The Acting Company), Play On! Shakespeare (Classic Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Humana Festival, and many Chicago storefront theaters. Screen: “The Four Seasons” (Netflix), “The Good Fight” (CBS), “The Blacklist” (NBC), Variations (Juilliard). Producer: HomeBase Theater Collective, The Chicago Home Theater Festival, Self Care Saturdays. Juilliard Group 51. Thanks to Mom and Dad, Dustin, and Dylan. Broadwa