Winter 2027

Laura Pels Theatre

Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre

A creature stalks the woods near North Bender. It kills the person you love most, erasing them from your memory. A makeshift hunting party forms to track it down before it feeds again.

This surreal comic fable by Dylan Guerra, directed by Dustin Wills, follows a grieving ex, his fiercely loyal sister, and a partner who can’t remember the man he loved, as they join forces in a local pub to bring this creature down and reclaim what they’ve lost. Silver bullets are forged. Old wounds reopen. And these unlikely comrades confront the fact that restoring what they lost might hurt more than losing it.

The Grief Eater Near North Bender is a fierce and darkly funny descent into love, loss, and the cost of facing what we’d rather outrun. Ready or not.

Key Information.

Running Time

TBD

Venue

Laura Pels Theatre
Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
111 West 46th Street, New York, NY, 10036

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Casting will be announced at a later date.

Playwright Dylan Guerra

Director Dustin Wills

Additional creatives will be announced at a later date.

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The Grief Eater Near North Bender is proudly supported by Tri-State Cadillac, the Official Auto Partner of Roundabout Theatre Company. 

The Grief Eater Near North Bender receives funding from the Laura Pels Play Production Fund, established by a grant from The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater. 

Roundabout’s work with emerging and established playwrights, as well as the development of new plays, is made possible by Eric and Fiona Rudin. 

Additional support is provided by Roundabout’s Leaders for New Works: Eugene and Joann Bissell and the Lillian Lincoln Foundation, James Costa and John Archibald, Linda L. D’Onofrio, Thomas and Liam Drury-Wang, Peggy and Mark Ellis, Carson Gleberman, Sylvia Golden, Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, Toni Ratner Miller, Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, Mary Solomon, and The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.

Dylan Guerra

Playwright

Dylan Guerra is a NYC-based queer Latine writer/director originally from Miami. His short film “Didn’t Think I’d See You Here” premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. He was a writer on the twice Emmy-nominated third season of HBO Max’s The Other Two (Season 3)– on which he also appeared as an actor. He is set to direct a feature he wrote, “Other Gay Demons” for Shudder, with Picturestart and John Legend’s Get Lifted. He has various television series in development with A24, Temple Hill, and Hisako Films. As a playwright, Dylan is the recipient of the 2026 Weissberger/Harris Award for Playwriting, the Playwrights Horizons’ Winegarten Commission, MTC’s Sloane Commission, was shortlisted for the Bruntwood prize and currently has a commission at Roundabout for his next play. He has been a member of Ars Nova’s Playgroup, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writer’s Group, EST’s Youngblood and P73’s Interstate 73. His solo-show “Find Him” recurred off-broadway at Ars Nova. His most recent play “Signaling” was presented at the American Museum of Natural History and in MTC’s Snowden Series. Dylan was the host of AMC’s online entertainment platform “Fear HQ” for two seasons. He holds a BFA in theater from SMU.

Dustin Wills

Director

Dustin Wills is a stage director and designer for theatre and opera. Upcoming productions include Jerome at Playwrights Horizons, Wold Meteor by Kate Attwell, Verdi’s Falstaff, a new version of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, and an adaptation of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia in Copenhagen, Denmark. Recent directing credits include Tennessee Williams’ Camino Real starring Pamela Anderson, The Counterfeit Opera and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo at Little Island (Best Theater of 2024, New York Magazine), Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Directing), Six Characters (Lincoln Center), Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons & MCC), Montag (Soho Rep), Eugene Onegin (Heartbeat Opera), and Romeo and Juliet (National Asian American Theatre Company). Dustin has devised new work with Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy, trained with Augusto Boal in Theatre of the Oppressed legislative performance, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. He is a 2023 Obie Award winner, Princess Grace Award recipient, and Baryshnikov Center Artist Resident 2018. He teaches for the Directing and Playwriting programs at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

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