How do you chart freedom? How can you package liberty?
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Nominated for 2 Tony Awards, including Best Play!
WHAT ONCE WAS, MAY NO LONGER BE TRUE. How do you chart freedom? How can you package liberty? Who’s included and who’s deliberately discarded? How can you create your own future when it’s never certain to begin with? Playwright Heidi Schreck’s Pulitzer Prize nominated play dives into who the U.S. Constitution is really for, using her past teenage self, winning college money by debating the Constitution in American Legion halls across the country. Hilarious, heartbreaking and insightful, What the Constitution Means to Me shows the fight for freedom and equality is never done, but passed on from generation to generation. But perhaps Schreck’s most incendiary question is the most obvious: should we abolish the Constitution and start over?
Meet the Team
Artistic Team
Aimee Plant
Properties Designer
Aimee started at Paramount in September of 2018 and became a full-time staff member in 2021. Design credits include Hand to God and BULL: a love story. Other Paramount props artisan credits include Into the Woods, Rock of Ages, Sweat, Groundhog Day, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and The Producers. She has also done props work at The Santa Fe Opera, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Theater, Pavement Group, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. She is very happy to be making theater so close to her hometown of Montgomery and in the community in which she grew up. Get a sneak peek into the world of props by following the shop on Instagram @paramountpropshop
Lauren Berman
Director
Angela Weber Miller †
Scenic Designer
Caitlin McLeod
Costume Designer
Jessica Neill
Lighting Designer
Forrest Gregor
Sound Designer
Devon Hayakawa
Dramaturg
Lina Benich *
Stage Manager
Rebecca J. Lister
Assistant Stage Manager
Cast
Cory Goodrich *
Heidi
previously in Once and Mary Poppins
Kevin McKillip *
Legionnaire
making Paramount Theatre debut
Lilly Fujioka
Debater
making Paramount Theatre debut
Vivian Webb
Debater
making Paramount Theatre debut
Andrea Uppling
u/s Heidi
Previously in What the Constitution Means to Me
Gabriel Fries
u/s Legionnaire
Previously in What the Constitution Means to Me and Hand to God
* indicates member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
† indicates member of United Scenic Artists (USA)
‡ indicates member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)