Shortly after graduating from college, she played the role of Susie, the compassionate nurse who tends to Vivian throughout her treatments, in a reading mounted by the UCSD San Diego School of Medicine. Cronican herself also has cancer, and like her character’s it is also Stage 4.Ĭronican is no stranger to Edson’s Pulitzer-winning work. But for Cronican, the challenging role of Vivian Bearing, a literature professor undergoing grueling chemotherapy treatments, which she is playing at the Seeing Place Theater in New York City through Jan. Producing and starring in Wit, Margaret Edson’s chronicle of a woman’s battle with cancer, during a deadly pandemic would seem a Herculean task for many. The actor, singer, and director has starred in Shakespeare’s tragedies and Marsha Norman’s ‘night, Mother, as well as co-directing and serving as the dramaturg for the dark comedy The Pillowman. Erin Cronican (she/her) isn’t afraid to talk about death.
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