Playwright and Director Lindsey Hope Pearlman specializes in new plays and musicals. She received a 2022 NYSCA commission for her new play ROAR!, which she will be workshopping at NACL with her collaborators in BREAD Arts Collective.
ROAR! is an experimental comedy with music which tells the true story of the making of a movie starring 100 lions, tigers and other untrained big cats. Written and directed by Lindsey Hope Pearlman and featuring the BREAD Arts Collective ensemble, ROAR! is about 1970’s Hollywood, mental illness, and the sacred bond between mother and daughter. ROAR! is for anyone who shares an interest in big cats, Alfred Hitchcock, or B-movie making. This play will entertain you – if you survive.
BREAD Arts Collective is a multi-disciplinary arts collective dedicated to devising new work that challenges the typical and stretches the possible. We embrace a sustainable, recycled-materials approach to design as well as a commitment to scrappy, urgent DIY theatre-making. BREAD boasts an eight-year history of successful ensemble driven work. Notable BREAD productions include RISE + FALL, The Great American Casket Company, and more recently, an adaptation of Voltaire’s Candide. Arts Wire Weekly says BREAD’s work is “the most fun [you’ll have] watching a live show in some time.”
Lindsey Hope Pearlman is a co-book writer of MacGyver the Musical, which made its world premiere at Stages in Houston, TX. Her film ONE WOMAN MOVIE won Best Short at the 2021 NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival at the New Ohio. Her play Lucy received an EST/Sloan Commission, and her play Viv is for Vengeance received Honorable Mention at the American Playwriting Foundation Relentless Awards. She was Assistant Director of Broadway’s Tony-winning Bandstand, a two-time SDC Observer, and a Drama League NY Directing Fellow (2019-2020). She is a graduate of the London International School of Performing Arts, and Hamilton College.