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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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Fan Zhang (she/her)

Feb 7, 2023, 12:18 PM
Role : Sound Designer/Compositions
Order : 70

Fan is pleased to be making her Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. Her recent off-Broadway design and original music credits include At the Wedding (Lincoln Center Theatre); The Far Country (Atlantic Theater Company); Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company); A Kid Like Rishi (Origin Theatre Company); The Golden Age (59E59 Theaters); Paris (Atlantic Theatre Company); Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage Theater and Women’s Project Theater); Pumpgirl (Irish Repertory Theatre); Suicide Forest (Ma-Yi Theater Company and Alliance of Resident Theatres); Molly Sweeney (Theatre Row); Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio Theatre); The Trail of the Catonsville Nine (Transport Group); Three Girls Never Learnt the Way Home (Cherry Lane Theatre); and Tania In the Getaway Van The Flea Theater). Fan’s regional credits include Sanctuary City (Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Arena Stage); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theater Company); The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Steppenwolf Theater); The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage); White Noise and Pipeline (Studio Theatre, D.C.); The Revolutionists (City Theatre Company); Red Maple (Capital Repertory Theatre); and August Wilson’s Seven Guitars (Yale Repertory Theatre). She is currently the head of the MFA sound program at Purdue University. Her training includes an MFA from Yale School of Drama. Visit fanzhangsound.com.

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Fan Zhang (she/her)

Feb 7, 2023, 12:18 PM
Role : Sound Designer/Compositions
Order : 70

Fan is pleased to be making her Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park debut. Her recent off-Broadway design and original music credits include At the Wedding (Lincoln Center Theatre); The Far Country (Atlantic Theater Company); Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company); A Kid Like Rishi (Origin Theatre Company); The Golden Age (59E59 Theaters); Paris (Atlantic Theatre Company); Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage Theater and Women’s Project Theater); Pumpgirl (Irish Repertory Theatre); Suicide Forest (Ma-Yi Theater Company and Alliance of Resident Theatres); Molly Sweeney (Theatre Row); Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio Theatre); The Trail of the Catonsville Nine (Transport Group); Three Girls Never Learnt the Way Home (Cherry Lane Theatre); and Tania In the Getaway Van The Flea Theater). Fan’s regional credits include Sanctuary City (Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Arena Stage); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theater Company); The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Steppenwolf Theater); The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage); White Noise and Pipeline (Studio Theatre, D.C.); The Revolutionists (City Theatre Company); Red Maple (Capital Repertory Theatre); and August Wilson’s Seven Guitars (Yale Repertory Theatre). She is currently the head of the MFA sound program at Purdue University. Her training includes an MFA from Yale School of Drama. Visit fanzhangsound.com.

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