A Girl Lives Alone

By Jessica Moss
Directed by Lindsay Van Norman
May 28 – May 31
MAY 28 - MAY 31; THU, FRI, SAT at 8 PM, SUN at 3 PM

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field

Presents

A Girl Lives Alone

May 28, 2026 – May 31, 2026
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets – $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run time: 105 minutes, No intermission
COMMUNITY SPACE

THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions

Theater for the New City and MLC Studio brings A Girl Lives Alone, a play by Toronto-based playwright Jessica Moss to TNC for a limited engagement May 28th – 31st.

Marion has uprooted her life and moved to New York in the wake of a break-up, only to find a girl has been found dead in her walk-up apartment building. Soon after, the events in the building begin to mirror the mystery podcast she can’t pull away from, and her life begins to feel like she’s trapped in a Hitchcock film. The lives of the other tenants– and the mysterious noises upstairs– start to close in on her, blurring the line between what is real and what lives only in her imagination. Does living close to others keep us safe, or put us in danger?

Using live sound effects to underscore this uniquely theatrical play, A Girl Lives Alone is an ensemble dark comedy about whether our fears are to be trusted or overcome.

Developed and workshopped at The Juilliard School, the play has received dramaturgical support from playwrights Marsha Norman, Christopher Durang, and David Lindsay-Abaire. A Girl Lives Alone premiered at the 2018 Toronto Summerworks festival, directed by Moss.

Jessica Moss’s plays have previously been called ‘glorious’ (National Post) and ‘pure joy’ (NOW) and have sold out at Fringe and Next Stage festivals. Her plays include Instagirl (2023 Neukom Prize Winner), Funnie: The Most Lamentable Comedie of Jane the Foole (2022 Leah Ryan’s FEWW Prize winner, O’Neill finalist), Our Play (2023 Lanford Wilson award winner), Cam Baby (Toronto Fringe New Play Winner, Weissberger finalist), Polly Polly (Ed Mirvish Award for Entrepreneurship), and more. Training: Juilliard.

To learn more about this production and MLC Studio, visit: www.michaelluggio.com/girllivesalone

CAST
Emily McKeon
Cat Tebo
Johny Luong
Caitlin Wickner
Kiara Marie Melendez
Christian Tapp
Bradley Marco
Julia Zanardi