Maybe I’m Not Reading This Map Correctly Written by Elyse Pitock & Directed by Clare Mahoney

About This Show

Gabby has known Rebecca since before Rebecca discovered the concept of  patriarchy & since before her mother got sick. Rebecca has known Gabby since before Gabby watched her first documentary about pollution & since before either of them knew what ‘‘giving head’’ or ‘‘third base’’ meant.

When the two high schoolers’ relationship suddenly turns sexual, nobody knows what to think anymore, least of all the two of them. Fall turns to winter & friendships begin to buckle under pressure, as these teenagers grapple with what it means to be both a woman & a sexual being.

About the Artists

Elyse Pitock’s plays have received workshops, staged readings & productions at the Wilma Theater, Temple University, Barnard College, the Stella Adler Theater & the Cherry Lane Theater. She has been the recipient of several awards, including first place in the Philadelphia Young Playwrights festival, Young Playwrights, Inc., National Playwriting Competition & the Blank Theater’s Young Playwrights Festival in LA. Other work has appeared in the New York Times & on jewcy.com. Elyse graduated from Barnard College in December 2015.

Clare Mahoney is an actor living in NYC. She is graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she studied at the Stella Adler Studio. She is a current acting student at the Scott Freeman Studio as well as the Kelly Kimball Studio. She is a performer, a teaching artist, a director & a nanny.

Allison Ciuci is a director, performer, writer, singer, producer & dislikes the term Jane of all Trades. She has a big shiny BFA from NYU’s Tisch School & most recently worked as an assistant director with Nora Long for Commonwealth Shakespeare Apprentice Company’s all-female Macbeth. Coming up, she will be directing a play about witches & maintaining her Instagram-shaming of gross misogynists on dating apps.

Patrick Aloia is an actor & writer from Manhasset, New York. He has performed in numerous campus productions while attending Columbia University including Merrily We Roll Along (Charley Kringas), Godspell (Judas), The 118th Annual Varsity Show (Supporting Player) & Hair (Ensemble/Featured Player). At Columbia, Patrick wrote for Columbia’s sketch comedy troupe, Chowdah, various campus publications & the 24-hour campus play festival Egg and Peacock. His work has also been performed with Ampersand Artists & The Joust Theatre Company. To supplement his art, Patrick works in sales, his true passion, which he will pursue until his dying day.

Julie Balefsky is an actress & producer living in New York City. Last spring, she appeared in the West Coast Premiere of Oblivion by Carly Mensch at the B Street Theatre in Sacramento, CA.

Margaret Gandolfo has a BFA from NYU Tisch & studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in the NYU Company. Some of her roles with Stella Adler include Mary Shelley in Blood and Ice, Grandma Froclan in The Mai & Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor. For the past year, Margaret has been a director at a children’s theater, working on musical productions of Legally Blonde & Mulan.

Jenny Singer is a recent graduate of Barnard College. Her work has been seen at the Hudson Guild Theater, The Producer’s Club & Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater. Jenny’s favorite roles have included Jeanie in Hair, Little Red in Into the Woods & Gussie in Merrily We Roll Along. She feels privileged to be a part of this project, as well as very smug about the female-dominated cast and creative team it comprises.

Emily Verla has worked with New York Classical Theatre, Theatre East, Theatre for the Heart, The Writer’s Room & Performa 13. Regional credits include productions with Luna Stage, Musical Theatre West, Civic Light Opera SBC, Twin Tiers Theatre Festival & Princeton Summer Theatre. Emily is a series regular on the web series Terrible Shows I Wish I Were In. Emily will reprise the role of Lucy in Miss Valentine, presented by The League of Professional Theatre Women. Emily is a company Member with Theatre East. BFA NYU Tisch: The Stella Adler Studio.

Natalie Walker has a BFA from NYU Tisch & a face from a Tim Burton movie’s storyboard. She has been previously seen at Dixon Place in Ryan Trout’s plays In the Weeds (directed by Antonio Merenda) & When I Started Dating Men (directed by Srda Vasiljevic).

Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Students / Seniors / ID NYC
$10

Estimated Runtime
90 minutes

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Credits

Written by
Elyse Pitock

Directed by
Clare Mahoney

Producer
Allison Ciuci

Featuring
Patrick Aloia, Julie Balefsky, Margaret Gandolfo, Jenny Singer, Emily Verla & Natalie Walker

Photo Credit
Joshua Haunschild

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