Associate Director
you don’t have to do anything
Teddy and Clark aren't friends, but they have been talking online for 11 years. As Teddy traverses his memories to piece together moments of their relationship, the more convoluted and fractal they become. you don’t have to do anything is a play about when intimacy feels filthy.
What does it mean to come into your sexuality when your first sexual experience is a violation? This play explores the reality of being a queer teen in the early 2000s, discovering oneself through a combination of anonymous chat rooms and nonconsensual touch.
Featured in The New Yorker, Vulture, The Daily Beast, Theater Mania, and Lighting & Sound
by Ryan Drake
Director: Ryan Dobrin
Associate Director: Isabelle Chirls
Lead Producers: Will Arbery, Leigh Honigman, Joey Nasta
Associate Producer: McKenna Harrington
Producing Consultant: Olivia Facini
Production Stage Manager: Caren Celine Morris
Assistant Stage Manager: Eva Rubin
Scenic Design: Cat Raynor
Lighting Design: Molly Tiede & Bentley Heydt
Music & Sound Design: Carsen Joenk
Associate Sound Design: Emma Lea Hasselbach
Costume Design: Christopher Vergara
Video Design: Zack Lobel
Intimacy & Fight Director: Alex Might
Production Manager: Shannon Molly Flynn
Technical Director: Eric Nightengale
Head Lighting: Jack Bebinger
House Management: Isabel Loughlin
Graphic Design: June Buck
Cast: Andrea Abello (Enid), Will Dagger (Clark), Miles Elliot (Jimmy/Guy/HockeyBoy18), Yaron Lotan (Teddy)
Understudies: Nick Salem (Clark), Jasmine Sharma (Enid), Kayla Zanakis (Enid)
Production: HERE Arts Center, February 2024
Photography by Maria Baranova
