Creator of In the Green, Grace McLean, will perform selections from the show, in addition to music from her upcoming solo album, in a virtual concert, via Rockwood Music Hall, on Monday, December 14 at 8:00 PM ET. McLean is a Writer In Residence at Lincoln Center Theater where In the Green was commissioned and produced. For her work, McClean received a 2020 Richard Rodgers Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical.
In the Green tells the origin story of one of Medieval history’s most powerful and creative women: Hildegard von Bingen. Before she became a healer, a composer, an exorcist, and finally a saint, she was a little girl locked in a cell with her mentor, Jutta. The cast album, now available on streaming platforms, and which will be released as a CD on January 15, 2021, features Rachael Duddy, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Grace McLean, Mia Pak, and Hannah Whitney. The music itself is a combination of folk, funk and pop genres. In the Green features orchestrations by Grace McLean and Kris Kukul, with music supervision by Kris Kukul, and music direction by Ada Westfall.
McLean is an actor, singer and songwriter. LCT3: In the Green. Broadway: Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (also Off-Broadway, A.R.T.). Other New York theater includes Cyrano (The New Group), Alice by Heart (MCC), Brooklynite (Vineyard Theatre), The World is Round (BAM) and many She toured Pakistan and Russia as an artistic ambassador with the US State Department; additionally, her band performed in the 2015 and 2016 Lincoln Center American Songbook series. McLean is the recipient of a 2017 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center. She has developed work at CAP21, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Goodspeed, The Orchard Project, and The MacDowell Colony.
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