Co-Productions

We believe art is best made in community. Here's what we're making together.

Red Giant: A New Actor-Musician Musical

by Cathryn Wake

JULY 2026

Living Room Productions is proud to co-produce Red Giant, a new actor-musician musical from Broadway actor, musician, and songwriter Cathryn Wake.

THE SHOW

The Roman gods, played by women, find out the truth of what will happen to the sun: that it will become a red giant star, engulfing and destroying their planets. Told through a rock score with actor-musicians, the show explores queer love, authoritarian abuse of power, and the endurance of female friendship. This show assumes that the Romans got most of it wrong; Red Giant is a new narrative of the gods we named the planets after.

THE STORY

Mercury, Venus, Terra, Mars, and Ceres, longtime friends but recently distant, gather to open a letter from Jupiter, the arrogant and power-hungry king of the Gods. They learn that the sun will become a red giant star, soon to swallow their planets - “tough shit”. They also learn that everyone else is gone; they are alone in the solar system. Immediately these immortals face their own mortality: If their planets are gone, do they also cease to be? Do they have a chance to change the course of fate?

THE CREATOR

Cathryn Wake is a Broadway actor, musician, and songwriter based in New York. Her actor-musician musical in development, Red Giant, is the 2025 recipient of the Jeffrey L. Nissen Arts Education & Development Fund Spark Grant. Alongside collaborator Neil Reynolds, Cathryn composed the rock score to the play Caring For The Dead by Kati Schwartz which was a finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Music Theatre Conference. 

As a stage actor, Cathryn made her Broadway debut in the original cast of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. Cathryn has specialized in originating roles in world premiere productions, including Jean Kerr, wife of Senator Joseph McCarthy, in Joe DiPietro’s Conscience (George Street Playhouse), World War I veteran Louise LeBreton in The Hello Girls (Off-Broadway), Vicky/Victor/Vivian in 53% Of (Second Stage), women’s suffrage leader Alice Paul in The Suffragist (GBPAC), and Mara in Well-Intentioned White People (Barrington Stage).

Other notable credits include The Fantasticks (Off-Broadway), The Other Josh Cohen (Off-Broadway), The Glass Menagerie (Pittsburgh Public), The Second Girl (CATF), Ragtime (Bay Street Theater), and The Cottage (TWN). Cathryn received her BFA from Pace University and received the Classical Acting Certificate from the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art. www.cathrynwake.com

As our co-production with Red Giant develops, you'll find it featured here alongside our current season, including our next full-length production, Twelfth Night: 1941. We can't wait to bring you along.

 

Georgia Mertching is Dead

by Catya McMullen

Directed by Laura Carswell

Starring: Taylor Alden; Lauren James; Lucy Shelby; Matthew Nikitow; Jacob Saxton

MARCH 2025

Our first co-production was Georgia Mertching is Dead by Catya McMullen.

A comedy about grief, sobriety, and female friendship, this electric, hilarious production played sold-out performances at the Brooklyn Art Haus in March of 2025, and was extended due to popular demand.

Lucy Shelby, Lauren James, and Taylor Alden were the co-producers and lead actors.

The full cast included:

The show was directed by LRP Co-Founder and Associate Director, Laura Carswell, and was produced by LRP Founder and Artistic Director, Ellyn Heald.

Lighting design by Jared Wofse.