In The Green - Original Cast Rerding
This new musical by Grace McLean is the tale of two women and the journey that leads one to embrace death, and the other to celebrate the beauty and blemishes of a fully lived life. Commissioned by LCT3, IN THE GREEN tells the origin story of one of Medieval history's most powerful and creative women: Hildegard von Bingen. Before she became a healer, a composer, an exorcist, andfinally a saint, she was a little girl locked in a cell with her mentor, Jutta. ABOUT GRACE MCLEAN Grace McLean is an actor, singer and songwriter. LCT3: In the Green. Broadway: Natasha, Pierre & theGreat Comet of 1812 (also Off-Broadway, A.R.T.). Other New York theater includes Alice by Heart (MCC),Brooklynite (Vineyard Theatre), Bedbugs!!! (Arclight), The World is Round (BAM), Sleep No More (McKittrick), Twelve Ophelias (Woodshed Collective), Hell House (St. Ann’s Warehouse), La MaMaCantata (La MaMa). Grace toured Pakistan and Russia as an artistic ambassador with the US State Department and her band performed in the 2015 and 2016 Lincoln Center American Songbook series.She is the recipient of a 2017 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center. She has developed work atCAP21, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Goodspeed, The Orchard Project, and The MacDowell Colony. In TheGreen was developed at The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival in 2018 as part of their new worksprogram “The PiTCH.”