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you don't have to do anything 

HERE Arts Center

Winter 2024

WRITER | Ryan Drake 

DIRECTOR | Ryan Dobrin (Associate Director for Broadway's Merrily We Roll Along)

PRODUCER | Will Abery (Pulitzer Prize Finalist Heroes of the Fourth Turning), Leigh Honigman 

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FEATURING | Yaron Lotan, Will Dagger, Andrea Abello, Miles Elliot

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HISTORY | Off-Broadway premiere

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SUMMARY | you don't have to do anything centers on the malignant friendship teenage Teddy held with Clark, who both bonded due to a mutual sense of outsiderness. But what could've been a queer safe haven for Teddy was manipulated to destructive ends. Throughout the work, he unravels his 11-year-long journey of sexual awakening, coming-of-age, and withering connection during the dawn of the digital age—all archived through fractured texts, voicemails, and social media alerts.

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"Ryan Drake's script, exquisitely directed by Ryan Dobrin [is] one of the best performed shows in New York right now."

- Helen Shaw, The New Yorker

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