McCarter Theatre Announces Creative Team for the World Premiere of Lauren Gunderson and Ari Afsar’s “I & You: The Musical”

Lauren Gunderson, Sarah Rasmussen and Ari Afsar

(PRINCETON, NJ) — McCarter Theatre Center has announced an all-woman creative team for the World Premiere of I & You: The Musical, which runs September 13 through October 12, 2025. Inspired by Lauren Gunderson’s internationally acclaimed play I and You, this new musical reunites Gunderson with director Sarah Rasmussen, who helmed the play’s world premiere in 2013.

Rasmussen now returns to the story in her role as McCarter Artistic Director, joined by composer and lyricist Ari Afsar. Movement director Steph Paul, music director Sujin Kim-Ramsey, and dramaturg Julie Felise Dubiner complete the team. Commissioned by McCarter with support from the BOLD Theater Women’s Leadership Circle, the production…