Romantic Comedy Revolves Around Rented Truck

 

In July 2010, Jean Ann Douglass appeared in a puppet play about a gorilla, a man and a chimpanzee. She played the left arm of the gorilla.

This feat took place at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa, and Ms. Douglass, then 27 and an aspiring performance artist, may have been working for peanuts but ended up richly rewarded. Because it was at a cast outing when she met, or more accurately was accosted by, Eric John Meyer, then 31 and a struggling playwright.

“I know you!” Mr. Meyer called out to her when Ms. Douglass arrived at Souths, a neighborhood bar and theater hangout. Actually, he knew her only in the sense that he had seen her perform a solo show four months earlier at the Kitchen in Chelsea. He had been unable to talk about anything else for hours after. 

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