About The Play
i miss you: a play about a baby carrot by Juliet Roll is an exceptionally moving, sharply funny, and fiercely original piece of contemporary theater. Intimate, offbeat, and quietly devastating, it handles an untouchable subject with immense empathy, poetic rhythm, and a brilliantly grounded sense of humor.
This absurdist, poignant dark comedy tracks a fractured Jewish family over the course of seven days of mourning following the loss of a toddler. When their rabbi is unexpectedly arrested on Day One, the family is left without spiritual guidance, improvising their own rituals while navigating an escalating domestic crisis: the grieving mother has begun caring for a backyard carrot as her surviving child, forcing her traditional, rule-bound father and distant husband to confront the breaking points of their own grief.
The play embraces surreal and absurd elements to create a beautifully warped exploration of grief where uncertainty and understanding live side by side. The humor highlights the messy, awkward, and deeply uncoordinated reality of human grieving… grieving people are clumsy.
Creative Team
JULIET ROLL
Playwright
A New York-based playwright, scientist, and educator. Her work has been seen at Cherry Picking NYC, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Three Cat Productions, NoMads Art Collective, Northwestern University, and 24 Hour Plays, among others. Recent work includes A PLAY ABOUT A BABY CARROT, TATTER & HER SISTER & ALSO HER SPOON, SOFT THINGS, UMBRIEL, and 204. You can contact her at juliet.roll23@gmail.com.
JEREMY ALUMA
DIRECTOR
An award-winning, Jewish-American theatre director and producer of Iraqi descent. Aluma was the Executive Director of Alliance for Jewish Theatre in 2020 & 2021. He founded the internationally touring clown troupe, Four Clowns and served as Artistic Director during the first seven years. Credits include: Abraham & Isaac (MuBe Cultural Theatre, São Paulo, Brazil); Four Clowns (La MaMa, NYC); Pinocchio and Robin Hood (South Coast Repertory); Sublimity (Theatre Row, NYC); The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Red Theater, Chicago and Chance Theater, Anaheim); Lunatics & Actors (Shakespeare Center, LA); Henry’s Potato (REDCAT, LA); Beyond Dark (Odyssey Theater, LA); Jonah (Annenberg, Santa Monica); Crumble (Sacred Fools, LA); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Urban Theatre Movement, LA); and In Arabia We’d All Be Kings (Alive Theatre, Long Beach). Nationally, he has directed productions at Chopin Theatre (Chicago); Gremlin Theatre (St. Paul, MN); Exit Theatre (San Francisco); Indy Fringe Theater (Indianapolis); Space 55 (Phoenix); and Insurgo Theater Movement (Las Vegas) amongst others. He is the recipient of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Exchange International Grant, the City of Santa Monica, Annenberg Community Beach House Residency, and the Long Beach Arts Council Community Project Grant. Since graduating Cum Laude from California State University, Long Beach with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Directing, Aluma has attended prestigious training programs such as, the Master Conservatory program in Bali, Indonesia; Director’s Lab West; and The Actor’s Center in NYC. He continues to teach and take classes at The Clown School and received an MFA in Directing at The Theatre School at DePaul University. https://www.jeremyaluma.com/
JONATHAN FISHMAN
PRODUCER
An award-winning producer, actor, and the founder of Au Jus Entertainment LLC, an independent production company committed to bold, character-driven storytelling across stage, television, and film. With a creative sensibility that leans into sharp satire, dark comedy, and nuanced human drama, Jonathan champions projects that blend sharp wit with emotional grit.
Under the Au Jus Entertainment banner, Jonathan has shepherded a diverse and critically acclaimed roster of productions. In theatre, he produced Brian Parks’ acclaimed satire Enterprise, which won a coveted Fringe First Award at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to an Off-Broadway engagement at New York City’s SoHo Playhouse as part of the “Best of the World’s Fringe.” His stage production slate also features deeply personal and engaging work, including Another Divorced Dad in L.A. (premiered at the 2022 Hollywood Fringe Festival) and its thematic evolution, Welcher.
On screen, Jonathan’s producing credits span episodic comedy, narrative features, and dynamic shorts. He executive produced the half-hour workplace comedy pilot, and three-time Telly award-winner, BUDS, focusing on the administrative underdogs serving senior care facilities, and his short film credits include the festival-favorite and award winning dark comedy CHEW, the atmospheric Brooklyn crime drama Waiting at Newkirk Avenue, and the award-winning short A Family Affair (commissioned by BASF and Filmaka). He is currently guiding two original feature films through pre-production.
