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