failures in girlyear

FULL-LENGTH - puke girl returns to her college town with a burning desire to clear her name after a brush with viral notoriety causes her life to spiral out of control; can she turn it into something good?
tape girl is locked in a toxic situationship, leaving her miserable; can she grow a spine?
rabies girl needs a bit of help as she attempts to atone for mistakes of the past, present, and future; can she make...

FULL-LENGTH - puke girl returns to her college town with a burning desire to clear her name after a brush with viral notoriety causes her life to spiral out of control; can she turn it into something good?
tape girl is locked in a toxic situationship, leaving her miserable; can she grow a spine?
rabies girl needs a bit of help as she attempts to atone for mistakes of the past, present, and future; can she make it out alive?

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  • Corey Householder: failures in girlyear

    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!

    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!

  • David McGuff: failures in girlyear

    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.

    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.

  • Dan West: failures in girlyear

    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...

    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.

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Character Information

  • puke girl
    needy emotionally
    Character Age
    mid20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Trans woman
  • rabies girl
    wants her dignity back
    Character Age
    mid20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Cis female
  • tape girl
    an analogue horror
    Character Age
    mid20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Non-binary -- assigned female at birth
  • scream girl
    a laugh riot
    Character Age
    mid20s-early30s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Trans woman
  • rehab girl
    starry-eyed, scarry-eyed
    Character Age
    early20s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • job girl
    a Real Adult
    Character Age
    late20s-early30s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Cis female
  • jesse
    more of a pet than a person
    Character Age
    late20s - early30s
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Cis male