DEAR EVAN HANSEN Partners With Time And Philosophy For Mental Health Symposium

To commemorate Mental Health Month this May, the Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen will join forces with TIME and the mental health-conscious beauty brand philosophy for "You Will Be Found," an exclusive event to highlight contemporary mental health issues on Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 3:30 PM, it was announced today. The one-day-only event will take place at Meredith's downtown offices and will feature mental-health-focused conversations and a performance from the cast of Dear Evan Hansen. The panel will include actor/activist Rowan Blanchard, Dear Evan Hansen book writer Steven Levenson and mental health experts Dr. Harold Koplewicz (founder of Child Mind Institute), John MacPhee (Executive Director/CEO of JED Foundation) and Jeannette Pai-Espinosa (President of National Crittenton).

Independently, Dear Evan Hansen, TIME and philosophy have each made strides in confronting these contemporary issues in their own fields. This invite only event brings together all three organizations to continue that conversation on a national stage.

The conversation will be streamed live on TIME's Facebook page, and a limited number of tickets will be made available to Dear Evan Hansen fans and New York City public school students.

"We're so thrilled to partner with TIME and philosophy on this initiative," Dear Evan Hansen producer Stacey Mindich said. "Bringing people together to talk about mental health issues, particularly in young people, has been a dream of mine from the first moment Dear Evan Hansen found an audience. It's a conversation we need to be having, and I'm grateful to our partners for helping to make this dream a reality."

"TIME has been covering the rising tide of anxiety and depression among young Americans for the last five years. We've seen that these issues transcend stats and slogans. This is about the complex ways we connect with each other in a culture undergoing seismic technological change," said TIME Executive Editor Susanna Schrobsdorff. "And I can think of no better way to get at the heart of what's happening than to talk with the artists, experts, and advocates who will join us on May 10th."

"We couldn't be more excited to partner with kindred organizations Dear Evan Hansen and TIME, who are working to end the stigma around mental health issues," said Andy Fouché, Global Vice President of Influencer Marketing at philosophy. "Partnerships like these exemplify the efforts that are needed to support mental health and well-being, which disproportionately affect women, around the world."

The winner of six 2017 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen features a book by Tony Award-winner Steven Levenson, a score by Academy Award and Tony winning composers Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, and direction by 4-time Tony® Award nominee Michael Greif. The Grammy Award-winning Original Broadway Cast Recording of Dear Evan Hansen, produced by Atlantic Records, was released in February 2017, making an extraordinary debut on the Billboard 200 and entering the chart at #8 - the highest charting debut position for an original cast album since 1961. Declared "One of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history" by the Washington Post's Peter Marks, Dear Evan Hansen opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre to rave reviews on December 4, 2016, where it's broken all box office records and has struck a chord with critics and audiences alike.

Meredith Corporation (NYSE:MDP) (www.meredith.com) has been committed to service journalism for 115 years. Today, Meredith uses multiple distribution platforms - including broadcast television, print, digital, mobile and video - to provide consumers with content they desire and to deliver the messages of its advertising and marketing partners. Meredith's National Media Group reaches nearly 200 million unduplicated American consumers every month, including 85% of U.S. millennial women. Meredith is a leader in creating content across media platforms and life stages in key consumer interest areas, such as celebrity, food, lifestyle, home, parenting, beauty, fashion, news and sports. Meredith also features robust brand licensing activities, including more than 3,000 SKUs of branded products at 4,000 Walmart stores across the U.S. Meredith National Media Group also includes The Foundry, the company's state-of-the-art creative lab and content studio.

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PANELIST BIOGRAPHIES

Rowan Blanchard One of Young Hollywood's rising stars, Rowan Blanchard is quickly becoming an industry "go to" and a versatile talent to watch. Blanchard was most recently seen in the highly touted A Wrinkle in Time, based on the bestselling book. The film, directed by Ava DuVernay released in Spring 2018. She was also simultaneously appearing in a recurring role on the ABC hit show The Goldbergs throughout the 2017-2018 season. Also in 2018, Blanchard published her first book entitled "Still Here." The book is a curation of visual art, poetry, and writing from Rowan and other artists, based around the shared experience of growing up. It was well received to critical and fan acclaim. Blanchard is best known for her role as Riley Matthews, a teenager learning to navigate her relationship with family and friends as well as the bumpy journey of her teenage years in Disney Channel's comedy series Girl Meets World.Born in Los Angeles, Blanchard began acting at the age of five, when she was cast in an the first of what would be more than a dozen national network commercials to her credit. With a steady commercial career under her belt, Blanchard was soon cast as a series regular on the Disney Junior series Dance-A-Lot Robot in 2010. She was next cast in the FOX pilot Little in Common, opposite Rob Corddry and Gabrielle Union. This fall, Blanchard will be seen starring in the Disney Channel Original Movie, Invisible Sister. In addition to her work in commercials and television, Blanchard has made an impact onscreen with several feature films including The Back-Up Plan with Jennifer Lopez, and a starring role in Spy Kids: All The Time In The World 4D also starring Jessica Alba and Joel McHale. Blanchard is a passionate humanitarian and has become educated in areas such as feminism, human rights, and gun violence. She has spoken at the UN Women and US National Committee's annual conference as part of #TeamHeForShe and continues to take action and get involved on behalf of her generation in these important areas. She was also recently selected as the Feminist Celebrity of the Year for 2015 by the Ms. Foundation and Cosmopolitan Magazine and "Celebs to Watch for 2016" onDoSomething.org's "Celebs Gone Good" award. Blanchard currently resides in Los Angeles with her family.

Harold S. Koplewicz, MD is the founding president of the Child Mind Institute. One of the nation's leading child and adolescent psychiatrists, he is known as an innovator in the field and a master clinician. He has been repeatedly recognized in America's Top Doctors and was named one of WebMD's 2014 Health Heroes for his advocacy on behalf of children and teens with mental health and learning disorders. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.

Steven Levenson is the Tony Award winning book writer of Dear Evan Hansen. His plays include If I Forget, The Unavoidable Disappearance Of Tom Durnin, Core Values, The Language of Trees, and Seven Minutes In Heaven. Honors include the Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, Drama Desk Nomination, Hull-Warriner Nomination, Lucille Lortel Nomination, and the Helen Hayes Award. A former Artist in Residence at Ars Nova and a member of the Roundabout Leadership Council, he worked for three seasons as a writer and producer on Showtime's Masters of Sex and is a founding member of Colt Coeur and an alumnus of MCC's Playwrights Coalition and Ars Nova's Play Group. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts. A graduate of Brown University, he is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. and the WGA.

John MacPhee serves as the Executive Director and CEO of The Jed Foundation, a leading non-profit that exists to protect emotional health and prevent suicide among teens and young adults. John brings 25 years of leadership and management experience from the business and not-for-profit settings to his role at JED. Passionate about supporting young adults in their transition to adulthood, John advises several organizations including the S. Jay Levy Fellowship for Future Leaders at City College, Trek Medics, Crisis Text Line, the Health Policy and Management Department at the Mailman School of Public Health, and HIV Hero. Earlier in his career, he served in executive positions for Par Pharmaceutical, Inc. and Forest Laboratories, where he oversaw functions such as business development, alliance management, clinical development, regulatory affairs, sales and marketing. John continues to contribute to the development of novel medications for disorders such as Parkinson's disease through board roles with Adamas Pharmaceuticals and Blackthorn Therapeutics.

In 2016, John received The Allan Rosenfield Alumni Award for Excellence in the field of public health from the Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He earned a BA from Columbia College, an MBA from New York University and an MPH from Columbia University.

Jeannette Pai-Espinosa is currently president of The National Crittenton Foundation (TNCF). She brings more than thirty years of experience in advocacy, education, intercultural communication, public policy, strategic communication, program development, and direct service delivery. Under her leadership at TNCF, the national umbrella for the 27 members of the Crittenton family of agencies, programs and services are provided in 32 states and the District of Columbia on a comprehensive mix of gender and culturally responsive, trauma informed and specific, developmentally appropriate, strength-based services to girls and young women whose lives have been impacted by childhood adversity, violence and trauma. Ms. Pai-Espinosa is a former partner of the Metropolitan Group, an award-winning social change agency specializing in serving social-purpose organizations and businesses, where much of her work focused on creating collaborative approaches to compelling social issues such as poverty, racial and gender disparities in educational outcomes, the disproportional representation of children and youth of color in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, and bias crimes.

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