Ruthie Ann Miles’s musical-theater career has been a study in grieving mothers. Not long after becoming one of the most exciting theater actresses in the world when she won the Best Supporting Actress in a Musical Tony for her work in The King and I , the performer left Broadway for five years. On March 16, 2018, her daughter, Abigail, 4, died after they were both hit by a car in Manhattan. Miles survived, but was expecting at the time and lost the pregnancy. She subsequently moved to Los Angeles for a TV show, where her daughter Hope was born in April 2020, until her return to the New York City stage in 2023. And while audiences, who may or may not know her personal story, have watched her grieve onstage, Miles is using these performances to process her own life.

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