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Hannah Cruz Joins Richard Linklater’s ‘Merrily We Roll Along’


The 'Merrily We Roll Along' movie from Richard Linklater has tapped Hannah Cruz for a key role, Deadline has learned.

A Clarence Derwent Award-winning veteran of the theater world, Cruz is set to play Gussie, the wife of Paul Mescal’s Franklin Shepard, who after establishing himself as a talented composer of Broadway musicals, abandons his friends and songwriting career to become a producer of Hollywood movies. Producers of the feature are Ginger Sledge, Jason Blum for Blumhouse Productions, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Linklater and Mike Blizzard. Also seen on Max’s series The Time Traveler’s Wife, Cruz is represented by Buchwald and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

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