←Recommendations of Jacob Romano

This is bittersweet perfection. Amazing characters that are relatable and likeable (except for the creepy dudes). This story is tender where it needs to be, funny where possible and told with enormous heart. I love the friendships and the support provided by this tight group of friends when hard truths about romantic choices are made clear. This needs to be staged, filmed, put to music and sung, whatever - simply beautiful work.

Wow! Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend finds the perfect tone and hits every note in this wonderful romantic comedy. The quirky characters are an enchanting blend of wacky, pitiable, and loveable. They are distinctly drawn, but there’s also a collective vibe of the single, mid-twenties women that is captured perfectly. This play is truly funny, but it manages to be so much more. it’s an insightful exploration of relationships and self-confidence. Brava!

Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend plays are thoughtful and layered. On one level, this is a light-hearted play about a young woman’s struggles to find love. It’s also about her friends and their own disappointing relationships. And her new love interest and his life and his own romantic turbulence (and the creeping sense that he might be a bit of a douchebag). All the while, the spectre of Jacob Romano lingers … Realistic, hysterical and made even better by its profundity and well-earned melancholy.

A lovely, very funny play about that very specific brand of self-doubt that strikes in one's mid-20s, and the deeply inconvenient ways the past can haunt the present. I loved Jenny (even -- and especially -- as I wanted her to get out of her own way). Actually, I loved them all. Hooray.

Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend’s dialogue is perfection! The lively, comic banter between Jenny and her girlfriends and with her quasi boyfriend is totally believable and just flies by. This romantic comedy of 20-somethings struggling with relationships could easily become a hit TV sitcom or film. It’s already a hit as a play as far as I’m concerned.

This romantic comedy managed to succinctly tell two stories at once - one live on stage and the other in the form of interstitial audio snippets, which provide just the context we need to understand the hilarious relationship hijinx on stage. As always, the dialogue is sharp, specific, and consistently hilarious. Plus, it doesn't get more relatable than a story about human relationships! Plus, it includes great, age-appropriate roles for college-aged actors!

When I win the lotto and produce this play, I intend to incorporate a live, on-stage children's choir... but sound designers will have a blast with this one!

There is a meta moment in this play that I absolutely love when the script acknowledges the absurdity of young people dropping in on each other in person to drop big news instead of texting. It encapsulates the kind of wry wit that Feriend employs to full effect throughout this piece. The narrative plays with the tropes of the classic rom-com, right down to the alternatively supportive/unhelpful friends, but it ultimately lands in a more meaningful place that acknowledges the traps we put on ourselves with our expectations of love. A fun and thoughtful read.

This play manages to be humorous and light-hearted while exploring a bunch of different kinds of complex, frustrating, and at times toxic romantic relationships--as well as how and why people get into them. I appreciated Jenny's journey as it illustrated how both self doubt and outside prejudgments can take root and pathologize and interfere with relationships and intimacy. The final scene is a funny, poignant button that provides closure without the fairy tale finale.

I want this to be a movie so much! It's an empowering romantic comedy that will really speak to young women. I recognize all of the relationships in this script and it makes me grateful to not be young and single anymore, to be honest. But if this were a movie, I would probably watch it over and over again! I love that it isn't neat and tidy and "they lived happily ever after." It's light hearted and fun, yes. But also very truthful.