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Lianna Matt McLernon

Lianna Matt McLernon (she/her) is a former lifestyle journalist turned marketing and communications director at Theater Mu, the Midwest's largest Asian American theater company.

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Essay

A Maximalist Show Needs a Collective Mindset

23 July 2025

Fifty Boxes of Earth at Theater Mu was a maximalist play that combined Western and South Asian theatrical styles, choreography, and puppetry. Lianna Matt McLernon and playwright Ankita Raturi talk about the show’s collective approach and how it was created to be reproduced for any specific community.

A group of actors perform a fight onstage.
Essay

How Pay As You Are Changed Theater Mu

27 November 2023

Theater Mu managing director Anh Thu T. Pham and development director Wesley Mouri discuss the ideology behind the theater’s Pay As You Are program, how it works, and what impact it’s having on the theatre six years after its implementation.

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