A Girl Lives Alone

by Jessica Moss

Directed by Lindsay Van Norman

May 28 -31 2026, Theater For the New City

“you have to be careful. You have to trust your fear.”

★★★ “Moss successfully captures urban anxiety and stress” - NOW magazine

“…this show will make you hoot with laughter and keep you on the edge of your seat.” - Mooney on Theater

Marion has uprooted her life and moved to New York in the wake of a break-up, only to find a girl has been murdered 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– begin 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.

A Girl Lives Alone is written by Canadian playwright Jessica Moss. Moss is a Julliard trained playwright whose work has been called 'glorious' (National Post) and 'pure joy' (NOW) and have sold out at Fringe and Next Stage festivals. Developed and workshopped at The Juilliard School, A Girl Lives Alone 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.

From the Playwright:

“My shows seem about little things but are secretly about big things--they seem funny but everyone in them is terrified. I love cinematic and theatrical techniques, and things that are simultaneously heightened and truthful. I’m interested in a profoundly emotional experience in the theatre: I want to be moved. I want to be changed.
I have a tremendous desire to see what is truthful, what is honest, to move beyond representation and towards something more real, usually by doing something more theatrical and less literal.”
- Jessica Moss
excerpted from an interview with Bobcat Players Theater.