About the World Premiere
Emery Harris has lived alone in a treehouse named Mabel for over a decade performing research on plants. Except for her overbearing sister Hazel, Emery’s only connection to the outside world is through her YouTube channel where she documents her
research and has garnered several thousand followers. No one is more stunned than she, though, when strangers begin gathering beneath Mabel, chanting and singing. As the crowd grows larger and louder, Emery learns she’s been unwittingly elected
as her followers’ botanical, new-age messiah. A follow-up to Deborah Zoe Laufer’s hit play Be Here Now, this warm-hearted world premiere comedy studies the power of plants and the idiosyncrasies of people.
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Advisory
Rooted introduces you to memorable human characters named Emery, Hazel and Luanne - and memorable plants named Mabel, Cynthia and Gerald, among others. While the plants don't use strong adult language and explore mature themes like mental health, the humans do, so we recommend that human audience members be at least 14 years or older to attend.
View Program
You can view the Digital Program now online. QR codes will also be around the theatre for quick access, as well as printed programs.
Digital Program
David Lander
Feb 16, 2022, 16:40 PM
Role :
Lighting Designer
Order :
80
David is delighted to be back at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Previous
Playhouse credits include The Clean House (2005), Hiding Behind Comets
(2004) and Closer (2001). Broadway credits include The Lightning Thief, Torch
Song with Michael Urie, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, Bengal Tiger at the
Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams, 33 Variations with Jane Fonda and I Am My
Own Wife, among others. Off-Broadway credits include King Lear with Kevin
Klein, Macbeth with Liev Schreiber and Jennifer Ehle, The Tempest with Sam Waterson, Cymbeline
with Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe and Fran’s Bed with Mia Farrow, among many others.
International credits include Raunaq & Jassi, a musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set in Punjab
province in 1950 and produced in Mumbai; as well as theatre and opera credits in Tokyo, Dublin,
London, Leeds, Caracas and Singapore, among others. David’s architectural lighting designs
can be seen in theme parks in California and Florida and in public art installations in New York,
Denver, Houston, Providence and Pittsburgh. Awards include two Tony Award nominations and
five Drama Desk Award nominations with one win, and other awards.
David Lander
Feb 16, 2022, 16:40 PM
Role :
Lighting Designer
Order :
80
David is delighted to be back at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Previous
Playhouse credits include The Clean House (2005), Hiding Behind Comets
(2004) and Closer (2001). Broadway credits include The Lightning Thief, Torch
Song with Michael Urie, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, Bengal Tiger at the
Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams, 33 Variations with Jane Fonda and I Am My
Own Wife, among others. Off-Broadway credits include King Lear with Kevin
Klein, Macbeth with Liev Schreiber and Jennifer Ehle, The Tempest with Sam Waterson, Cymbeline
with Hamish Linklater and Lily Rabe and Fran’s Bed with Mia Farrow, among many others.
International credits include Raunaq & Jassi, a musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set in Punjab
province in 1950 and produced in Mumbai; as well as theatre and opera credits in Tokyo, Dublin,
London, Leeds, Caracas and Singapore, among others. David’s architectural lighting designs
can be seen in theme parks in California and Florida and in public art installations in New York,
Denver, Houston, Providence and Pittsburgh. Awards include two Tony Award nominations and
five Drama Desk Award nominations with one win, and other awards.
Photo by Tony Arrasmith/Arrasmith & Associates.
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