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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.

 

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You can view the Digital Program now online. QR codes will also be around the theatre for quick access, as well as printed programs.

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Kate Abbruzzese

Feb 17, 2022, 10:44 AM
Role : Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie
Order : 10

Kate is delighted to be making her Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. In New York, she has workshopped plays such as The Good Ones, As You Like It and Richard II at the acclaimed Public Theater and Unicorn, Tiny Houses, Catch as Catch Can and Love at the New Dramatists Theatre Company. She has performed Off-Broadway with the Gingold Theatrical Group, The Tank Theater, The 52nd Street Project and opposite Christopher Lloyd in Pound. Regionally, she has played leading roles at The Old Globe Theatre Company, the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Chautauqua Theater Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare & Company and more. Kate’s television credits include NCIS: New Orleans and The Blacklist. Her film credits include The Chaperone and Siren. Kate is a two-time winner of the Red Bull Short New Play Festival for her plays Motley Fool and An Evening With the Macbeths, the latter of which she expanded into full-length during her 2021 residency at the Bethany Arts Community.

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Kate Abbruzzese

Feb 17, 2022, 10:44 AM
Role : Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie
Order : 10

Kate is delighted to be making her Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. In New York, she has workshopped plays such as The Good Ones, As You Like It and Richard II at the acclaimed Public Theater and Unicorn, Tiny Houses, Catch as Catch Can and Love at the New Dramatists Theatre Company. She has performed Off-Broadway with the Gingold Theatrical Group, The Tank Theater, The 52nd Street Project and opposite Christopher Lloyd in Pound. Regionally, she has played leading roles at The Old Globe Theatre Company, the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Chautauqua Theater Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare & Company and more. Kate’s television credits include NCIS: New Orleans and The Blacklist. Her film credits include The Chaperone and Siren. Kate is a two-time winner of the Red Bull Short New Play Festival for her plays Motley Fool and An Evening With the Macbeths, the latter of which she expanded into full-length during her 2021 residency at the Bethany Arts Community.

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