New York Premiere of Beth Hyland's FOR ANNIE Begins Tonight at The Hearth

The Hearth will present the New York Premiere of Beth Hyland's FOR ANNIE, directed by Emma Miller at the Lucid Body House (230 Lexington Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets) tonight, December 9, through January 15.

Annie Lambert was murdered in the middle of her senior year. So her sisters of the Beta Tau Alpha sorority at SUNY Onondaga are memorializing her in the best way they know how: They're putting on a play. For Annie uses Greek chorus, pop music, dance, and a lot of glitter to explore grief, guilt, sisterhood, and what it means to remember.

The New York Premiere of Beth Hyland's For Annie will be the inaugural production of The Hearth, a New Theatre Company dedicated to telling the stories of women and supporting the work of female-identifying artists.

The cast will feature Bartley Booz, Liz Colwell, Shelby Green, Julia Greer, Sammi Katz, Alex Najarian, Andrea Negrete, Aliza Sotsky, Leila Teitelman, Jonah Weinstein, and Laura Winters with Costume Design by Dara Affholter, Lighting Design by Amy Elliot, Set Design by Emmie Finckel, Choreography by Lucia Knell, and Sound Design by Lauren Zoppo. The Production Stage Manager will be Rachel Shaw with Assistant Stage Manager Mia Carey.

Performances: Fri 12/9 at 8pm, Sat 12/10 at 8pm, Thu 12/15 at 8pm, Fri 12/16 at 8pm, Sat 12/17 at 8pm, Sun 12/18 at 1pm, Fri 1/6 at 8pm, Sat 1/7 at 8pm, Sun 1/8 at 2pm & 8pm, Wed 1/11 at 8pm, Thu 1/12 at 8pm, Fri 1/13 at 8pm, Sat 1/14 at 8pm, and Sun 1/15 at 8pm. Tickets ($15 under 30; $20 over 30) are available online at www.TheHearthTheater.com or by calling 929-269-4784. The show will run approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.

BETH HYLAND (Playwright) is a playwright and songwriter living in Chicago. Her plays and musicals have been seen at The Edge Theatre, The Chicago Musical Theatre Festival, Stage Left Theatre's Drekfest, 20% Theatre's Snapshots Festival, The Crowd Theatre, The Frontier, Potluck Variety Hour, Dixon Place, the Plays For One Festival, and in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She was a member of the New Colony Writer's Room, Spring 2016. She is the playwright in residence and co-founder of The Sound. Beth also sings and plays guitar and xylophone with the folk band Friends of the Bog. She is a graduate of Kenyon College and the National Theatre Institute.

EMMA MILLER (Director) is a New York-based director, producer, and writer. She just completed the Casting Fellowship at Playwrights Horizons, before which she was their Artistic Intern. Emma's work as a director includes Ryan & Alice (Cincinnati Fringe/KNOW Theatre); Summer and Smoke, Gidion's Knot, A Steady Rain, Boeing Boeing, Arsenic and Old Lace (Kenyon College); Dry Land, Post Grad: A New Musical (StageFemmes); Where There's A Will (Playmakers Theatre). As an assistant director, Emma has worked at Dobama Theatre, Kenyon College, Notre Dame College, and Playmakers Youth Theatre and spent two summers as the Directing Intern at the Kenyon Playwrights Conference. This summer, Emma produced the Off-Broadway premiere of Natalie Margolin's The Power of Punctuation. She co-founded StageFemmes at Kenyon College with Julia Greer and produced contemporary works by women including Dry Land, Post Grad, Bachelorette, and a developmental workshop of Pink Boxes. Emma is an alumna of Kenyon College and the National Theater Institute - Advanced Directing at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

THE HEARTH tells the stories of women. We nurture and celebrate female-identifying artists (playwrights, directors, actors, and designers) and develop plays that represent the complex and vast spectrum of womanhood. The Hearth produces plays that explore female characters that pulse with emotional, intellectual, and psychological complexity. We seek to challenge stereotypes, advance and complicate the conversation about feminism, and expand perceptions of what it means to be a woman. We are committed to making room for the next generation of female artists in the landscape of the American theater.

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