An absolutely riotous, delirious, and brutally honest play about self-entrapment. Contains a stellar cast of endearing characters with a ton of issues. The dialogue completely pops off the page, flowing down like one great big twitter thread (back when that app was good). Trashy, bleak, and hopeful in equal measure - completely defies expectation. Gnat Frye is a writer to watch!

failures in girlyear is a raw, funny, and deeply affecting portrait of young adulthood in flux. Gnat Frye captures the rhythms of contemporary life—online notoriety, creative ambition, addiction, intimacy, and exhaustion—with remarkable precision and compassion. The play’s voice feels immediate and unfiltered, while remaining carefully crafted and theatrically purposeful.

Even at their messiest and most self-destructive, these characters are treated with humanity and nuance.

In Gnat Frye’s “failures in girlyear”, traditional narrative takes second seat to mood, tone, and multi-faceted dysfunctional relationship. When demi-internet-celeb puke girl (so named from the viral YouTube video she found herself featured in) returns to her collegiate stomping grounds, she is quickly absorbed into a community of comrade damaged souls (rabies girl, tape girl, job girl, etc.). But has she gotten there just in time to watch the lot of them self-destruct, or can she find a way to rescue even the most lost of them? Frye’s authorial voice is absolutely unique and always enthralling.