Miss You Like Hell

September 12 - October 13

Miss You Like Hell
Book and Lyrics by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Directed by Rebecca Martínez
Music and lyrics by Erin McKeown

“THRILLING! STANDING OVATION! A SUBTLE REVOLUTION IS HAPPENING BEHIND AND WITHIN THE BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE PRODUCTION OF ‘MISS YOU LIKE HELL.'” —DC Metro Theatre Arts

A MUSICAL WITHOUT BORDERS

Everyone has baggage in this timely mother-daughter musical about escaping and belonging from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning In the Heights. Join Olivia and her mother on their cross-country road trip. Mothers may teach you where you come from, but they can be the trickiest things.

RUN TIME: Approximately 1 hour 45 minutes with no intermission.

WARNING: This performance includes the smoking of herbal cigarettes in an enclosed space.

CONTENT ADVISORY: Baltimore Center Stage recognizes each family’s need to make informed decisions about what show is appropriate for their young people. We do not presume that every show is well-suited for every young person, and it is in that spirit we share the following content considerations. This play contains discussions of sex, consumption of alcoholic beverages, references to drug use, and profanity.

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Gisela Adisa*
Officer/Ensemble

Anthony Alfaro*
Lawyer/ Ensemble

Ceasar F. Barajas*
Manuel/Ensemble/Dance Captin

Jaela Cheeks-Lomax*
Pearl/Ensemble

Jono Eiland
Official/Ensemble

Stephanie Gomérez*
Olivia

Calvin McCullough*
Desk/Ensemble

Michael Medeiros*
Mo/Ensemble

Rachel Stern*
Legal Clerk/Ensemble

Raphael Nash Thompson*
Higgins/Ensemble

Lorraine Velez*
Beatriz

Broadway: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Lucille). National Tour: Sister Act. (Deloris Standby, Michelle). Regional: Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole (Eartha Kitt), Geffen Playhouse-Barrymore nomination, Outstanding Supporting Performance the initial People’s Light & Theatre Company production. Man of La Mancha (Aldonza),Westport Country Playhouse—BroadwayWorld, CT Critics Circle Award nominations for Best Actress. Trial, directed by Lori Petty, Beckmann Theater. Television/Film: “Younger,” “Royal Pains,” “Shield,” “Ride By Night” and the pilot “Upcode”. Soprano in the Tony Award winning Broadway Inspirational Voices. For more, @imgisela on social media.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Ceasar is a self-proclaimed multi-hyphenate human who’s done a lot of really cool things but is most proud of being a US Navy Veteran and Survivor. Favorite theatre credits: Pedro in Man of La Mancha (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Award nominee),
Graffiti Pete/Assoc. Choreographer in In the Heights (Walnut Street Theatre), and Willie Lopez/Fight Choreographer in Ghost the Musical. TV/Film: Gotham, Bull, The Good Fight, Manifest, The Last O.G., Law & Order: SVU, “Dirty Sexy Saint,” “Hello Again,” “Brothers.” He wouldn’t be here without the love of his #Team, family and Ride or Dies Irene & Gina at DDO Artists. Luke 12:48. Visit & follow @ceasarfbarajas.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Regional—Arena Stage: Snow Child (Ensemble); Signature Theatre: Freaky Friday (Swing), Jesus Christ Superstar (Ensemble); Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol (Swing); Olney Theatre Centre: Carmen (Diego), Elf (Store Manager), South Pacific (Professor), Godspell (Ensemble); Imagination Stage: Roberto Clemente (Joe), Freshest Snow White (Kanye East), Peter and the Wolf (Cat); Everyman Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun (George Murchison); Toby’s Dinner Theatre: In the Heights (Graffiti Pete), Shrek (Donkey), Adventure Theatre: BIG (Ensemble), Snowy Day (Snowman), Mirandy and Brother Wind (Ensemble), Miss Nelson Is Missing (Gregory).

Baltimore Center Stage: Joe Turner’s Come And Gone. New York Theatre: City Center Encores: 1776; Samuel Becket Theatre: Emilie’s Volltaire; Playwrights Horizons: Violet; Public Theatre: Museum; Circle In The Square: Ah Wilderness. Regional: Goodspeed: A Wonderful Life; Bard Summerscape: The Master and Margarita; Goodman Theatre: Camino Real; Huntington Theatre: Twelfth Night; Long Wharf: The Front Page. Films: X-Men First Class, Synecdoche New York, RoboCop 2, Son of The Morning Star, She’s Lost Control. Television: Elementary, Believe, multiple episodes of Law & Order, etc. He was a resident at the 2019 Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed with his 60’s rock musical, Wild Thing for which he wrote book, music and lyrics. He has also written and directed films, including Tiger Lily Road which won the Audience Award for Best Comedy Feature at Woods Hole Film Festival.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Regional—Signature Theater: F*cking A; City Theatre: The Guard ; McCarter Theatre: All the Days; Theater for a New Audience: Pericles; Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey: Coriolanus, The Servant of Two Masters; Shakespeare Theatre Company and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival: Richard III; Goodman Theatre: Drowning Crow ; Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis: Julius Caesar; Red Bull Theatre: Volpone; TheatreWorks: Paul Robeson; Hartford Stage: Electra; Wilma Theatre: The Threepenny Opera. Film—Searching for Bobby Fischer, Kiss of Death, Clockers. Television—Search Party (TBS), Elementary (CBS), Ed, Third Watch (NBC), and Soul Food (Showtime).

Broadway—Mimi in Rent (Nederlander Theatre). London West End—Carmen in Fame (Original production and album, Cambridge Theatre), Gigi in Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Hannah (alternate) in Out of the Blue (Original Production, Shaftesbury Theatre), Clara in Porgy and Bess (Original production, Savory Theatre), Lena Horne in Mama I Want to Sing (Cambridge Theatre), Mimi in Rent (Shaftesbury Theatre). Off-Broadway—Nana in Temple of the Souls (New World Stages), DC-7 the Roberto Clemente Story (ACE, ATI Award Teatro SEA), There She Goes, One-woman-show (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre). Regional—Anita in West Side Story (Lakeview Theatre), The Girl in Blues in the Night (South American Tour), Young Maria in Maria de Buenos Aires (Houston Grand Opera), Rent in concert (El Teatro Grec), Lead Vocalist in Concert for His Holiness the Dalai Lama (Montpellier, France). Television—Elementary, Law and Order, Dr. Who, Frightmares. Lorraine dedicates this show to her mother Socorro and her son Joaquin, con much amor! “Gracias a la vida!”

Creative Team

Quiara Alegría Hudes
Book and Lyrics

Erin McKeown
Music and Lyrics

Rebecca Martínez
Director

Tiffany Underwood Holmes
Music Director

Alex Perez
Choreographer

Reid Thompson
Set Designer

Harry Nadal
Costume Designer

Elizabeth Mak
Lighting Designer

Charles Coes
Sound Designer

Nathan Roberts
Sound Designer

Danielle Teague-Daniels*
BCS Resident Stage Manager

Josie R. Felt *
Assistant Stage Manager

Cori Dioquino
Assistant Director

Rebecca Feldman
Casting

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Hudes is a writer, strong wife and mother of two, barrio feminist and native of West Philly, U.S.A. Hailed for her work’s exuberance, intellectual rigor, and rich imagination, her plays and musicals have been performed around the world. They include Water by the Spoonful, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; In the Heights, winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and Pulitzer Prize finalist; and Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, another Pulitzer finalist. Her most recent musical, Miss You Like Hell, appeared Off-Broadway at New York’s Public Theatre.

Originally trained as a composer, Hudes writes at the intersection of music and drama. She has collaborated with renowned musicians including Nelson Gonzalez, Michel Camilo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Erin McKeown, and The Cleveland Orchestra.

Hudes recently founded Emancipated Stories. It seeks to put a personal face on mass incarceration by having inmates share one page of their life story with the world.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. McKeown is a musician, writer, and producer known internationally for her prolific disregard of stylistic boundaries. Her brash and clever electric guitar playing is something to see. Her singing voice is truly unique —clear, cool, and collected. A familiar presence on NPR and the BBC, McKeown’s songs have also appeared on numerous television shows and commercials. She has spent the last decade and a half playing nearly 200 shows a year while releasing 9 studio albums and refining a distinct and challenging mix of American musical styles.

McKeown’s first original musical, Miss You Like Hell, co-written with Tony & Pulitzer winner Quiara Alegría Hudes, had its world premiere in the fall of 2016 at the La Jolla Playhouse. It opened Off-Broadway at The Public Theatre in the spring of 2018 where it was nominated for 3 Outer Critics Circle Awards (Best Musical, Best Book of Musical, Best Score) and 5 Drama Desk Awards (including Best Music, Best Lyrics, Best Orchestrations).

While a student at Brown University, Erin spent three years as an artist in residence at Providence, RI’s revolutionary community arts organization, AS220. An active voice on social justice issues and culture, Erin was a 2011-12 fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and she has blogged and hosted for WNYC New York Public Radio. A former board member of the Future of Music Coalition, McKeown has also worked closely with a range of non-profits focusing on her core concerns of media justice and immigration reform.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Brooklyn-based director, choreographer, deviser, and ensemble member of Sojourn Theatre. Upcoming projects: Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); I Am My Own Wife (Long Wharf Theatre); Songs About Trains (New Ohio Theatre, world premiere), DON’T GO (Sojourn Theatre). Recent projects: [Director] Wolf at the Door (Milagro Theatre, NNPN rolling world premiere), Anna in the Tropics (Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Henry Award for Outstanding Direction), Antigonick (Fordham University), Pork Kidneys to Soothe Despair (Drama League DirectorFest), Tomás and the Library Lady (Oregon Children’s Theatre). [Associate Director] How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes (Sojourn Theatre + Cleveland Public Theatre), The Cake (PlayMakers Repertory Company). Rebecca has worked with INTAR, Working Theater, Signature Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Lark, The Playwrights Realm, New Dramatists, the 52nd Street Project, Radical Evolution, Brave New World Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre among others. Member of: Sol Project Collective, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, INTAR’s Unit52, SDCF Observer, Latinx Theatre Commons Advisory Committee, 2019 Audrey Resident, New Georges Jam, 2018-2020 WP Lab, 2017 Drama League Directing Fellow, Member of SDC. Awards: four Portland, Oregon Drammy Awards; Lilla Jewel Award. Rebecca is an artist with the Center for Performance and Civic Practice.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. His recent credits as Director or Choreographer include: Cats (University of Hawaii), RENT (Harbor Lights Theatre), Fringe Festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland and NYC, Andrew Lloyd Webber Tribute (El Salvador), American Idiot (CCCT, San Francisco), Addams Family (Maine) and more. His acting credits include Anna in the Tropics (Cheche, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center-Henry Award Nomination), TV: Orange is the New Black, Tales of the City, Law and Order, Shades of Blue, etc. Film: Second Act, Float and the upcoming Crown Vic opposite Thomas Jane. He has written and produced various Off- Broadway productions.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Recent NY: Wives (Playwrights Horizons); Something Clean (Roundabout); Eddie and Dave (Atlantic Theatre Co); Too Heavy For Your Pocket (Roundabout and Alliance); Wilder Gone (Clubbed Thumb); Fruiting Bodies, Among The Dead, House Rules (Ma-Yi); A Delicate Ship (Playwrights Realm); Selkie (Dutch Kills); Empathitrax (Colt Coeur); Half Moon Bay (Lesser America). Recent Regional: Fun Home (Virginia Stage); A Doll’s House Part Two (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville); Venus Rising (Nothern Stage); Gloria, Disgraced (Asolo Rep); Up & Away (PCLO); A Streetcar Named Desire (Yale Rep). Opera: La Susanna (Heartbeat Opera); Lucretia (Stony Brook Opera); Erismena (Yale Baroqe Opera). Upcoming: Queen (Geva); You Lost Me (Denver Center); The Red Letter Plays (Juilliard); Arcadia (South Coast Rep); What The End Will Be (Roundabout Pels). MFA: Yale School of Drama. Member of Wingspace and USA-829. reidthompsondesign.com

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. New York: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Atlantic Theater Co., Lincoln Center Institute, INTAR Theater, Juilliard, LAByrinth Theater, The Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Pregones Theater, Theater for the New City, HERE Arts Center, HOME for Contemporary Theater and Art, Spectrum Stage and Miranda Theater among many. Regional: Arena Stage (Washington DC), TheaterWorks (Hartford, CT), People’s Light (Malvern, PA), UrbanArias (Arlington, VA), Open Stage (Harrisburg, PA), Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble and Boise Contemporary Theater. International: Danza del Alma (Cuba) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Faculty member at Pratt Institute Film School. MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Singapore-born NYC-based lighting, projection, and scenic designer. New York: The Tricky Part and A Walk in the Woods with The Barrow Group, HERE Arts Center, and IATI. Regional: Tiny Houses (Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Bridges of Madison County (Philadelphia Theatre Company); The Phantom Tollbooth (Weston Playhouse); Cymbeline (Yale Repertory Theater); and The Square Root of Three Sisters (International Festival of Arts and Ideas). International: Nanyang: The Musical (Singapore International Festival of Arts) and Salomé: Woman of Valor (Vancouver Chutzpah Festival, Ashkenaz Toronto Festival). She is a resident designer with Albany Park Theater Project Chicago. Education: Graduate of Yale School of Drama.

Baltimore Center Stage: Fun Home, Animal Farm, The Christians, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Off Broadway: WP Theatre: Natural Shocks; TFANA: The Servant of Two Masters, The Acting Company: Julius Caesar, Macbeth; The Playwrights Realm: Crane Story, Dramatis Personae; HERE: Olives and Blood. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: The Way the Mountain Moved, Sense and Sensibility; The Old Globe: Tokyo Fish Story; Ford’s Theatre: The Widow Lincoln, Our Town; Yale Repertory Theatre: Assassins, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Servant of Two Masters; Hartford Stage: Twelfth Night, The Tempest; Long Wharf Theatre: It’s a Wonderful Life. Other: designs and builds musical instruments, with a special emphasis on flutes and hurdy-gurdies. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Professional: Lecturer, Theatre Studies, Yale University.

Baltimore Center Stage: How to Catch Creation, A Wonder in my Soul, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, SOUL The Stax Musical, The Christians. For the past 18 years, she has worked and reprised her role as SM with many companies including: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Clubbed Thumb, 3LD, Lee Strasberg Institute, LAByrinth Theater, Rising Circle Theater Collective, Big Apple Circus, NYU Steinhardt and New Dramatists. She’s also wrapped up Bello Mania at the New Victory Theater on 42nd St. She has also worked on two Broadway Bound workshops: The Donna Summer Project (La Jolla Playhouse) and Ain’t Too Proud (Berkeley Rep). Danielle also worked on Michael Kors’ fashion show in Shanghai, China.

Baltimore Center Stage: Amadeus (Ensemble), Young Playwrights Festival. Directing/Assistant Directing: debut. Producing: Tornkid with Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective (BAPAC) and Cohesion Theatre Company; Tornkid at Lady Fest (The Tank NYC with BAPAC). Actor (TV): Daredevil (Marvel/Netflix), FBI (CBS). Regional: Studio Theatre: The Wolfe Twins (Raina u/s); Cohesion Theatre Company: Neverwhere (Lady Door), Men on Boats (William Dunn); Faction of Fools: Titus Andronicus (Nurse/Young Lucius); Fells Point Corner Theatre: Top Girls (Lady Nijo/Kit/Nell). Co-Founder: Baltimore Asian Pasifika Arts Collective. Education: B.S. Theatre Studies, Towson University; A.A. Music Performance, Howard Community College; Arts Integration Certification, Teaching Artist Institute.

Baltimore Center Stage: debut. Seven years as Casting Associate/Assistant at the Public Theater (NYC), working directly on over 50 mainstage productions and over 100 readings. In addition to work at the Public: Off-Broadway (as Casting Director): The View UpStairs (Scott Ebersold). Broadway (as Casting Associate or Assistant): The Inheritance (Stephen Daldry); The Iceman Cometh (George C. Wolfe); Shuffle Along (George C. Wolfe), A Delicate Balance (Pam MacKinnon), A Raisin in the Sun (Kenny Leon), Lucky Guy (George C. Wolfe). London (as Casting Associate): The Inheritance (Young Vic and West End, dir. Stephen Daldry). Film (as Casting Assistant): Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig). Other select Casting Director credits include: Women’s Project Theater Lab Pipeline Festival (2018), bimonthly reading series for The LGBT Center & Tom Kirdahy Productions, Normativity (NYMF), Beardo (Pipeline Theatre Company).

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Reviews

““A powerful example of what musicals do best: explore the unprotected border where individual needs and social issues intermix.””— THE NEW YORK TIMES

“"Thrilling! Standing ovation. A subtle revolution is happening behind and within the Baltimore Center Stage production of ‘Miss You Like Hell.’"”— DC METRO THEATER ARTS

“"POWERFUL. UPLIFTING. STELLAR PERFORMANCES… VELEZ AND GOMÉREZ MAKE A MARVELOUS MOTHER/DAUGHTER TEAM." ”— BroadwayWorld

“"This estrogen-fueled variation on the American road trip allows two rich, juicy roles for women to dance in the headlights... joie de vivre, which is pretty hard to resist."”— DC Theatre Scene

“"A MUST SEE. DO NOT MISS IT."”— Wanda B., Facebook

“"I’VE NEVER BEEN MORE EXCITED ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF A THEATER... THE FUTURE OF REGIONAL THEATER IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN BALTIMORE."— ”— R. ERIC THOMAS, @OURERIC

“"FANTASTIC AS USUAL! WE’VE BEEN MEMBERS FOR 41 YEARS AND CENTER STAGE KEEPS ON SURPRISING AND REWARDING US!"— ”— HOWARD G., BCS MEMBER

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08.21.2019: Broadway World—Baltimore Center Stage Announces Cast And Artistic Team For 'Miss You Like Hell'
09.11.2019: Baltimore Business Journal—Local Organizations Put Out Statements Ahead of Trump's Arrival
09.20.2019: DC Metro Theater Arts—Review: ‘Miss You Like Hell’ at Baltimore Center Stage
09.21.2019: Broadway World—Making Deportation Politics Personal: MISS YOU LIKE HELL at Baltimore Center Stage
09.23.2019: DC Theatre Scene—Review: Miss You Like Hell musical at Baltimore Center Stage

“THRILLING! STANDING OVATION! A SUBTLE REVOLUTION IS HAPPENING BEHIND AND WITHIN THE BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE PRODUCTION OF ‘MISS YOU LIKE HELL.'” —DC Metro Theatre Arts

A MUSICAL WITHOUT BORDERS

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A MUSICAL WITHOUT BORDERS

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