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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
LA MAMA PRESENTS
“UNCONDITIONAL, A MUSICAL MEMOIR”
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY MARGOT ROSE
TO HAVE NEW YORK PREMIERE
OCTOBER 15 – 25, 2026
THE CLUB AT LA MAMA

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New York, NY (Monday, August 18, 2025) – La MaMa and William Mellon‘s production company Magic Panda Productions announced the New York premiere of UNCONDITIONAL, a musical memoir written and performed by Margot Rose this fall. Directed by Anne Kenny, performances for this limited engagement will run from Thursday, October 15 through Sunday, October 25, 2026 in The Club at La MaMa (66 E 4^th St).

UNCONDITIONAL, a musical memoir features music by Margot Rose and Aaron Benham, and musical direction and arrangements by Benham, with Melina Young rounding out the cast as The Girl. The creative team includes lighting and scenic design by Alison Brummer, and musical direction by Aaron Benham.

This musical tells the remarkable true story of two women who dared to build a family on their own terms. In a time when LGBTQ+ families had few roadmaps and even fewer legal protections, the story follows their years-long journey through fertility treatments, financial sacrifices, community support, and unwavering commitment to becoming parents until… the unspeakable happens. What begins as a deeply personal quest becomes a celebration of chosen family, perseverance, and the extraordinary things people will do for love.

This is not simply a story about how a family begins—it is a story about how a family endures. Decades after achieving their dream, an unexpected tragedy forces them to confront loss, identity, and the meaning of unconditional love itself. Through humor, heartbreak, original music, and profound honesty, UNCONDITIONAL explores the resilience of the human spirit and the bonds that sustain us through life’s most difficult moments. At its heart, the musical asks a universal question: when everything changes, what does it truly mean to remain a family?

Tickets are available now and can be found at the link here.For more information, please visit https://lamama.org/unconditional-a-musical-memoir/.

B I O G R A P H I E S

MARGOT ROSE (Writer, Producer, and Lead Performer) began her stage career Off-Broadway as Alice in the original company of I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking it on the Road at Joe Papp’s Public Theatre before moving to Los Angeles with the show. Working as an actor, songwriter and storyteller, she has appeared in numerous TV series and films including 48 Hours, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Desperate Housewives. For over a decade, Margot has produced and hosted Sidedoor Salon, a multi-discipline performance group, and has been an invited storyteller with Listen to Your Mother, Shine, Beyond Baroque and more. Margot performed her solo musical, Springloaded, in Los Angeles. In January 2019, Margot began work on her musical memoir, UNCONDITIONAL. In January 2024 the Los Angeles Fountain Theatre produced a three performance workshop of the piece and on February 15, 2025, UNCONDITIONAL opened its first full production at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles. Margot received her BFA from NC School of the Arts and attended the Yale Drama School.

ANNE KENNY (Director) has worked as a dramaturg to develop UNCONDITIONAL for the stage since its inception in 2019. Recent projects include the development and direction of stage storytelling based on the personal life stories of Bleu Inkk Watkins for Found Suitable, at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles and Derek Anthony Gray, in Addiction: The Musical at the Whitefire Theatre in Los Angeles.

WILLIAM MELLON (Creative and Production Coordinator, Producer) has more than a decade of experience working across commercial, music video, film, and narrative production. His work spans projects for major clients including Disney and T-Mobile, alongside an expanding slate of independent feature films, including the upcoming Discomfort, Texas and MIRROR IMAGE(2027). He is especially proud to bring UNCONDITIONAL to the stage alongside his mother, Margot Rose, whose artistry and influence have profoundly shaped his own creative life. UNCONDITIONAL marks Mellon’s theatrical producing debut under his banner, Magic Panda Productions.

AARON BENHAM (Co-Composer/Musical Director) is an award-winning music director, conductor, and composer. Credits include: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Nat’l Tour); An American in Paris (Nat’l Tour); The Book of Merman (Off-Broadway); It’s All Your Fault, Tyler Price! (LA, World Premiere); Transcendence Theatre Co. (Sonoma); Writer’s Theatre; Chicago; Second City (Chicago). His original children’s opera Once Upon a Windy City was presented by Chicago Opera Theater, and his musical Bewildered premiered with Hell in a Handbag (Chicago). Aaron has taught Musical Theater performance at NYU, Northwestern, Roosevelt, and AMDA. BFA, Emerson College. Love to Chris, Molly, and Brownie.

A B O U T   L A   M A M A

LA MAMA EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE CLUB La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre. La MaMa’s 65th Season, ONENESS, focuses on creating solidarity and community, exploring ways to build connections for cross-sector coalition and invites artists, activists, organizers and community members into the creative process. We build audiences that are integral to the creative process. Our local and global community members who gather in our physical, digital, and hybrid spaces to see new work, are often the first audience for that work. La MaMa believes art is a force for change.

La MaMa has been honored with 30+ Obie Awards, dozens of Drama Desk, Bessie Awards, Villager Awards, the 2018 Regional Theatre Tony Award, and most recently a 2023 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Special Citation. We are a creative home to artists and resident companies from around the world, many of whom have made lasting contributions to the arts, including Blue Man Group, Bette Midler, Ping Chong, Jackie Curtis, Robert De Niro, André De Shields, Adrienne Kennedy, Cole Escola, Bridget Everett, Harvey Fierstein, Diane Lane, Charlotte Brathwaite, Charles Ludlam, Haruna Lee, Tom Eyen, Spiderwoman Theater, Tadeusz Kantor, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Meredith Monk, David and Amy Sedaris, Stephanie Hsu, Julie Taymor, Kazuo Ohno, Tom O’Horgan, Heather Christian, Andrei Serban, Liz Swados, and Andy Warhol. La MaMa’s vision of nurturing new artists and new work from all nations, cultures, races and identities remains as strong today as it was when Ellen Stewart first opened the doors in 1961. For more info, visit: lamama.org.

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