“The Grief Eater Near North Bender” announces its full cast: Kyle Beltran, Florencia Lozano and Annie McNamara take the Off-Broadway stage in January

Roundabout Theatre Company and New York Theatre Workshop have revealed the full cast of their new co-production, Dylan Guerra’s “The Grief Eater Near North Bender”, which will play Off-Broadway in the new year, as Playbill announces.

Leading the cast is Kyle Beltran (“The Cherry Orchard”) in the role of Angler, Florencia Lozano (“Wet Brain”) as Tomlin, Annie McNamara (“Slave Play”) as Maryanne, Marquis Kofi Rodriguez (“When They See Us”) as Noland, Blake Russell (“Take Me Out”) as The Shepherd and Pete Simpson (“Is This a Room”) as Byron, Playbill writes. The direction has been entrusted to Dustin Wills.

Described as a surreal comic fable, the play follows a grieving former lover, his loyal sister and the partner who cannot remember the man she loved — all three come together in a local bar to bring down a murderous, memory-erasing creature, so that they can regain what they have lost, while confronting grief, loyalty and the cost of avoiding what we would prefer to rush past.

The show is a co-production between two of Off-Broadway theatre’s biggest names: Roundabout Theatre Company, one of New York’s largest non-profit companies, and New York Theatre Workshop, the stage of many premieres that later became part of Broadway history.

Performances begin on 21 January 2027 at Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre, with the official opening scheduled for 11 February, according to Playbill. The production’s creative team will be announced at a later point.