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How My Grandparents fell in Love at New Jersey Repertory Company

Dates: 7/17/2025 - 8/10/2025

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New Jersey Repertory Company


179 Broadway
Long Branch,NJ 07740

Phone: 732.229.3166


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In 1933, Charlie, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to America a decade earlier, returns to his hometown of Rovno in search of a bride. There Charlie meets Chava, who works at a hat shop and hopes to become a scholar. However, Chava’s ambitions for the future and the growing clouds of European anti-Semitism and persecution threaten both their dreams.

Cast and Creative team for How My Grandparents fell in Love at New Jersey Repertory Company

Cast

HARRIS MILGRIM*

Charlie
HARRIS MILGRIM is thrilled to make his NJ Rep debut! Select credits: BROADWAY: Tootsie (OBC), Cats (2016 Revival OBC); OFF-BROADWAY: Grand Hotel, Call Me Madam, Paint Your Wagon, Piece of My Heart; NATIONAL TOUR: West Side Story 1st Nat’l (us. Tony). WORLD PREMIERS: The Honeymooners (Dylan Casey); Secondhand Lions (Bruno); REGIONAL: Good Night, Oscar (George Gershwin), Frozen (Hans), West Side Story (Tony), The World Goes ‘Round (Man #1), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Benjamin), Joseph…Dreamcoat (Reuben), Smokey Joe’s (Michael), Altar Boyz (Abraham). Thanks to HCKR, Judy Henderson, the whole NJ Rep team and my dear friends, family, and B for all their support. For Sally and Ruth. IG: @harrismilgrim


BECCA SUSKAUER*

Chava
BECCA SUSKAUER is heartened to help bring this refreshing and timeless Jewish story to life. Becca is an actor and singer/songwriter based in NYC, with her music available on streaming platforms. Credits: Nat’l Tour – Pretty Woman (Vivian Ward U/S), Off-Broadway – Relapse (Kendra), Regional – Waitress (Dawn) at Actor’s Playhouse, & various performances at The Muny, Carnegie Hall, Northern Stage, and New London Barn Playhouse. She made her TV debut in Pretty Little Liars: Summer School on Max last summer, and wrapped shooting on her first movie this May! Penn State University MT ‘21 Alum. Love to Mom, Dad, Talia, HCKR, Sherry Kayne, Neil, Cary, and SuzAnne. Becca dedicates this performance to her grandmother Rose (originally Raisa), one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, who has dedicated her life to educating students about the Shoah and the Jewish people, around the world. beccasuskauer.com @beccaflower




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The New Jersey Repertory Company was founded in 1997 by SuzAnne and Gabor Barabas. Its current central headquarters is the Lumia Theater located on lower Broadway in Long Branch. The theater's mission is to develop and produce new plays and to make a lasting contribution to the American Stage. Over two decades NJ Rep has produced 140 plays of which 125 have been world premieres. The theater has the additional distinction of having had many of its plays produced by other theaters around the country totaling over 200 subsequent productions in the U.S. and overseas. In 2012 and 2018 NJ Rep was the recipient of a National Theater Company Grant from the American Theater Wing that sponsors the annual Tony Awards for Broadway in recognition of its contribution to the repertoire of the American Stage. Only seven theaters have had this distinction. In addition, the theater has presented over 400 developmental readings as well as introduced 136 new works through its Theatre Brut Short-Play Festivals that focus on visionary and avant-garde works. In May 2016, NJ Rep acquired a new property, a 28,000 square foot school situated on 2 ½ acres and located just five minutes from its Main Stage Lumia Theater and two blocks from the Jersey Shore. The theater plans on gradually transforming the school in stages into a cultural center that will house additional performance spaces, an art cinema, an art museum, a rooftop café, an arts education wing, and residences for out-of-town actors and playwrights. When completed, the center will present a wide array of programs in acting, playwriting, art, sculpture, poetry, music, and photography and will serve as a catalyst for economic development and as the foundation for the cultural renaissance of the community.

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