CAST
The cast of Dear Everything includes Crystal Monee Hall, YDE, Paravi, Luke Ferrari, Michael Williams, Brittany Campbell, Javier Muñoz, and Terence Archie. The production also includes a narrator. On September 28 in Miami, the narrator will be played by V (formerly Eve Ensler). On October 3 in Salt Lake City, the narrator will be played by writer, educator, conservationist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams. The narrator for September 30 in Los Angeles will be confirmed at a later date. Casting by Whitley Theatrical.
CAST
The cast of Dear Everything includes Crystal Monee Hall, YDE, Paravi, Luke Ferrari, Michael Williams, Brittany Campbell, Javier Muñoz, and Terence Archie. The production also includes a narrator. On September 28 in Miami, the narrator will be played by V (formerly Eve Ensler). On October 3 in Salt Lake City, the narrator will be played by writer, educator, conservationist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams. The narrator for September 30 in Los Angeles will be confirmed at a later date. Casting by Whitley Theatrical.
PRODUCTION TEAM BIOS
DIANE PAULUS, Director
DIANE PAULUS is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater and a Professor of the Practice of Theater at Harvard University. Broadway: A.R.T.-originated productions of 1776; Jagged Little Pill; Waitress; Pippin (Tony Awards for Best Revival and Best Director); Finding Neverland; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony Award for Best Revival, NAACP Award for Best Direction); and The Public Theater’s HAIR (Tony Award for Best Revival). Other work includes: Gloria: A Life; In the Body of the World; The White Card; Invisible Thread; Crossing; Prometheus Bound; Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera; Best of Both Worlds; The Donkey Show and Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna. She was selected for the 2014 Time magazine annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, Variety’s “Trailblazing Women in Entertainment for 2014”, and Boston Magazine’s 2023 150 Most Influential Bostonians.
V (formerly EVE ENSLER), Narrator, Book & Lyrics
V (formerly EVE ENSLER) is the Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright, author, and activist. Her play The Vagina Monologues has been translated into 48 languages and performed in 140 countries. She is the author of numerous best-selling books, including the recently released Reckoning, The Apology, In the Body of the World, and I Am an Emotional Creature. She starred on Broadway in The Good Body and, most recently Off-Broadway In the Body of the World. She is the founder of V-Day, the 26-year-old global activist movement to end violence against women, gender expansive people, girls and the Earth and founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries, as well as a co-founder of the City of Joy, a sanctuary and revolutionary center for women in the Congo who have survived sexual assault. She writes regularly for The Guardian.
JUSTIN TRANTER, Music & Lyrics
JUSTIN TRANTER is one of the most in-demand songwriters, producers, and collaborators in music today, an ACLU Bill of Rights Award-winning activist, and founder of Facet Records & Facet Publishing. With over 50 million single sales, 40 billion streams on Spotify and Youtube alone, multiple diamond-certified songs, and dozens of honors including GRAMMY® and Golden Globes® nominations, 14 total BMI Pop Awards and two consecutive “Songwriter of the Year” titles at the BMI Pop Awards, Tranter has lent their talents to several of the most iconic albums in recent memory, including Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next (2019), Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (2020), Lady Gaga’s Chromatica (2020), The Chicks’ Gaslighter (2020) and Selena Gomez’s Rare (2020).
DIANE PAULUS, Director
DIANE PAULUS is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater and a Professor of the Practice of Theater at Harvard University. Broadway: A.R.T.-originated productions of 1776; Jagged Little Pill; Waitress; Pippin (Tony Awards for Best Revival and Best Director); Finding Neverland; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony Award for Best Revival, NAACP Award for Best Direction); and The Public Theater’s HAIR (Tony Award for Best Revival). Other work includes: Gloria: A Life; In the Body of the World; The White Card; Invisible Thread; Crossing; Prometheus Bound; Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera; Best of Both Worlds; The Donkey Show and Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna. She was selected for the 2014 Time magazine annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, Variety’s “Trailblazing Women in Entertainment for 2014”, and Boston Magazine’s 2023 150 Most Influential Bostonians.
V (formerly EVE ENSLER), Narrator, Book & Lyrics
V (formerly EVE ENSLER) is the Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright, author, and activist. Her play The Vagina Monologues has been translated into 48 languages and performed in 140 countries. She is the author of numerous best-selling books, including the recently released Reckoning, The Apology, In the Body of the World, and I Am an Emotional Creature. She starred on Broadway in The Good Body and, most recently Off-Broadway In the Body of the World. She is the founder of V-Day, the 26-year-old global activist movement to end violence against women, gender expansive people, girls and the Earth and founder of One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries, as well as a co-founder of the City of Joy, a sanctuary and revolutionary center for women in the Congo who have survived sexual assault. She writes regularly for The Guardian.
JUSTIN TRANTER, Music & Lyrics
JUSTIN TRANTER is one of the most in-demand songwriters, producers, and collaborators in music today, an ACLU Bill of Rights Award-winning activist, and founder of Facet Records & Facet Publishing. With over 50 million single sales, 40 billion streams on Spotify and Youtube alone, multiple diamond-certified songs, and dozens of honors including GRAMMY® and Golden Globes® nominations, 14 total BMI Pop Awards and two consecutive “Songwriter of the Year” titles at the BMI Pop Awards, Tranter has lent their talents to several of the most iconic albums in recent memory, including Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next (2019), Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia (2020), Lady Gaga’s Chromatica (2020), The Chicks’ Gaslighter (2020) and Selena Gomez’s Rare (2020).
CAROLINE PENNELL, Music & Lyrics
Caroline Pennell is a 29 year old singer songwriter out of Los Angeles, CA. She’s written songs for and with artists such as Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Benny Blanco, Rita Ora, Vance Joy, Gracie Abrams, G-Eazy, Ava Max, Astrid S, Christina Agueliera, etc. She also releases and tours her own music under the name Carol Ades, most recently completing a North American Headline tour as well as several opening tours for artists such as Lizzy Mcalpine, Holly Humberstone, and more.
EREN CANNATA, Music
EREN CANNATA is an LA-based Emmy award-winning songwriter, producer, musician, and co-owner of Cove City Sound Studios. Eren, signed to Warner Chappell / Facet House under world-renowned songwriter Justin Tranter has already taken the music industry by force. His mission statement is to make records that will last a lifetime with an organic palette using the right modern touch. He’s had previous credits / upcoming collaborations with Demi Lovato, Justin Tranter, Bebe Rexha, Julia Michaels, Kesha, John Legend, Idina Menzel, Teddy Swims, Kid Cudi, Billy Porter, etc.
IDINA MENZEL, Contributions
IDINA MENZEL (Contributions) Idina has won a Tony, Obie, and Drama League Award for her work in the theater. Broadway: If/Then, Wicked, Aida, Rent. Off-Broadway: Skintight (Roundabout), See What I Wanna See (Public Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (West Side Theatre), The Wild Party (MTC), Hair (Encores). Regional: Wicked (San Francisco), If/Then (Washington, DC). Menzel also premiered Wicked in the West End, receiving the Theatregoers Choice Award. Film: You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, Which Way to the Stage? (Documentary), Enchanted 2: Disenchanted, Frozen 2, Uncut Gems, American Murderer, Cinderella, Frozen, Enchanted, Ask the Dust, Rent. TV: “Beaches,” “Glee,” PBS special, “Barefoot at the Symphony,” (accompanying live album). Idina prides herself on the importance of new musicals, creating original roles, and promoting young composers.
TONY MONTENIERI, Producer
TONY MONTENIERI has worked with the Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler) and V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, girls, and the earth, for over 22 years. He is the executive producer of Lotus Productions and the director of V-Day’s artistic campaigns. Off-Broadway and regional credits include Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World (Associate Producer), In the Body of the World (Producer for V, formerly Eve Ensler), and Fruit Trilogy (Producer). He has produced multiple marquee events for V-Day, including the Until The Violence Stops Festival (Studio 54, Alice Tully Hall, Hammerstein Ballroom), V to the 10th, V-Day’s 10th Anniversary Celebration (New Orleans Superdome), and an Evening of Reckoning and Rising (92 NY). He holds a BS from Skidmore College and an MA in Arts Administration from Goucher College, where he now serves as an adjunct faculty member in the program, teaching Art and Activism for Social Justice.
CAROLINE PENNELL, Music & Lyrics
Caroline Pennell is a 29 year old singer songwriter out of Los Angeles, CA. She’s written songs for and with artists such as Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Benny Blanco, Rita Ora, Vance Joy, Gracie Abrams, G-Eazy, Ava Max, Astrid S, Christina Agueliera, etc. She also releases and tours her own music under the name Carol Ades, most recently completing a North American Headline tour as well as several opening tours for artists such as Lizzy Mcalpine, Holly Humberstone, and more.
EREN CANNATA, Music
EREN CANNATA is an LA-based Emmy award-winning songwriter, producer, musician, and co-owner of Cove City Sound Studios. Eren, signed to Warner Chappell / Facet House under world-renowned songwriter Justin Tranter has already taken the music industry by force. His mission statement is to make records that will last a lifetime with an organic palette using the right modern touch. He’s had previous credits / upcoming collaborations with Demi Lovato, Justin Tranter, Bebe Rexha, Julia Michaels, Kesha, John Legend, Idina Menzel, Teddy Swims, Kid Cudi, Billy Porter, etc.
IDINA MENZEL, Contributions
IDINA MENZEL (Contributions) Idina has won a Tony, Obie, and Drama League Award for her work in the theater. Broadway: If/Then, Wicked, Aida, Rent. Off-Broadway: Skintight (Roundabout), See What I Wanna See (Public Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (West Side Theatre), The Wild Party (MTC), Hair (Encores). Regional: Wicked (San Francisco), If/Then (Washington, DC). Menzel also premiered Wicked in the West End, receiving the Theatregoers Choice Award. Film: You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, Which Way to the Stage? (Documentary), Enchanted 2: Disenchanted, Frozen 2, Uncut Gems, American Murderer, Cinderella, Frozen, Enchanted, Ask the Dust, Rent. TV: “Beaches,” “Glee,” PBS special, “Barefoot at the Symphony,” (accompanying live album). Idina prides herself on the importance of new musicals, creating original roles, and promoting young composers.
TONY MONTENIERI, Producer
TONY MONTENIERI has worked with the Tony and Obie Award-winning playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler) and V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women, gender-expansive people, girls, and the earth, for over 22 years. He is the executive producer of Lotus Productions and the director of V-Day’s artistic campaigns. Off-Broadway and regional credits include Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World (Associate Producer), In the Body of the World (Producer for V, formerly Eve Ensler), and Fruit Trilogy (Producer). He has produced multiple marquee events for V-Day, including the Until The Violence Stops Festival (Studio 54, Alice Tully Hall, Hammerstein Ballroom), V to the 10th, V-Day’s 10th Anniversary Celebration (New Orleans Superdome), and an Evening of Reckoning and Rising (92 NY). He holds a BS from Skidmore College and an MA in Arts Administration from Goucher College, where he now serves as an adjunct faculty member in the program, teaching Art and Activism for Social Justice.
DANIEL CREAN, Orchestrations
DANIEL CREAN is a drummer, arranger, and music producer from Boston, MA. He has worked with Gwen Stefani, Lady Gaga, Pink, Courtney Love, Lego Batman, and Andrea Bocelli.
ANTONIO MARION, Executive Producer
ANTONIO MARION is a New York-based theater producer – developing, marketing, consulting and executive producing live entertainment in theatrical formats. Broadway & Off-Broadway credits include Sunset Boulevard (2024 revival), Danny & the Deep Blue Sea (2023 revival), MJ The Musical, Almost Famous, Beetlejuice, Mrs. Doubtfire, Betrayal (2019 revival), Groundhog Day, Big Fish, Ghost, and the 2012 revival of Evita. Tony served as the Executive Producer for TodayTix Group from 2017-2023, developing and producing live entertainment for their global audience of thirty million users. Currently, Tony serves as the Head of Strategy & Brand for Seaview, of which recent credits include Stereophonic (Tony Award, Best Musical), Illinoise, Romeo + Juliet (2024 revival), All In, Hold onto me Darling, Once upon a Mattress (2024 revival) and the upcoming revival of The Last Five Years starring Nick Jonas & Adrienne Warren and Good Night and Good Luck starring George Clooney. Upcoming projects include The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, Dear Everything and a new adaptation of Sherlock Holmes directed by Rob Ashford with choreography by Akram Khan.
V-DAY
V-DAY is a global activist movement to end violence against all women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence), girls and the Earth. V-Day believes that when art and activism come together, they have the power to transform systems and change culture. Founded by V (formerly Eve Ensler), activist and author of The Vagina Monologues, V-Day has inspired women all over the world and raised collective consciousness about how violence and gender intersect. V-Day is a movement and an example of how the power of art can be used as a liberating tool for transformational holistic education and social justice. Mother Earth in our mission is an intentional step. We hope it will inspire our activists and audience members to stop and reflect on the connection between violence against women and girls and violence against the Earth. The system of patriarchy that allows both to continue unfettered must be dismantled.
DANIEL CREAN, Orchestrations
DANIEL CREAN is a drummer, arranger, and music producer from Boston, MA. He has worked with Gwen Stefani, Lady Gaga, Pink, Courtney Love, Lego Batman, and Andrea Bocelli.
ANTONIO MARION, Executive Producer
ANTONIO MARION is a New York-based theater producer – developing, marketing, consulting and executive producing live entertainment in theatrical formats. Broadway & Off-Broadway credits include Sunset Boulevard (2024 revival), Danny & the Deep Blue Sea (2023 revival), MJ The Musical, Almost Famous, Beetlejuice, Mrs. Doubtfire, Betrayal (2019 revival), Groundhog Day, Big Fish, Ghost, and the 2012 revival of Evita. Tony served as the Executive Producer for TodayTix Group from 2017-2023, developing and producing live entertainment for their global audience of thirty million users. Currently, Tony serves as the Head of Strategy & Brand for Seaview, of which recent credits include Stereophonic (Tony Award, Best Musical), Illinoise, Romeo + Juliet (2024 revival), All In, Hold onto me Darling, Once upon a Mattress (2024 revival) and the upcoming revival of The Last Five Years starring Nick Jonas & Adrienne Warren and Good Night and Good Luck starring George Clooney. Upcoming projects include The Queen of Versailles starring Kristin Chenoweth, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, Dear Everything and a new adaptation of Sherlock Holmes directed by Rob Ashford with choreography by Akram Khan.
V-DAY
V-DAY is a global activist movement to end violence against all women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence), girls and the Earth. V-Day believes that when art and activism come together, they have the power to transform systems and change culture. Founded by V (formerly Eve Ensler), activist and author of The Vagina Monologues, V-Day has inspired women all over the world and raised collective consciousness about how violence and gender intersect. V-Day is a movement and an example of how the power of art can be used as a liberating tool for transformational holistic education and social justice. Mother Earth in our mission is an intentional step. We hope it will inspire our activists and audience members to stop and reflect on the connection between violence against women and girls and violence against the Earth. The system of patriarchy that allows both to continue unfettered must be dismantled.