About the Show

Part of FringeNYC: A shocking accident at a private boarding school irrevocably changes the lives of a teacher, her fiancé, and a troubled student. A taut and explosive new drama about violent misdemeanors, professional misconduct, and missing the love you'll never get back.

Categories: Drama, Local. From Outside Inside. Written by Michael Ross Albert. Directed by Kaitlyn Samuel.

FROM THE ARTIST:
Outside Inside is proud to present the world premiere of Miss by Michael Ross Albert.

Presented as part of The New York International Fringe Festival, Miss explores the tenuous connection between a high school teacher, her fiancé, and a troubled student. After a shocking accident irrevocably changes their lives, these three damaged souls are forced together to try and mend their broken relationships. The result is a tense three-character, hour-long drama about loss, grief, guilt, and revenge.

The world premiere production will be helmed by FringeNYC regulars, Outside Inside. Founded in 2011 by graduates of the Actors Studio Drama School, Outside Inside has produced four plays in FringeNYC to date, including the near-sold out run of The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome in 2014.

Directed by Outside Inside’s founding co-artistic director Kaitlyn Samuel, Miss features an impressive cast of some of the most exciting up-and-coming performers in New York City.

The cast includes Daniel J. O’Brien (Before and After, St Ann’s Warehouse), Adam Petherbridge (In the Secret Sea, directed by Martin Charnin; Da, Irish Repertory Theatre) and Rosie Sowa (The Improbable Rise, Fall and Rise of John Law, Dreamscape Theatre).

Playwright Michael Ross Albert is the author of several plays including The Grass is Greenest at the Houston Astrodome (FringeNYC, published in “Best American Short Plays, 2014-2015”), Tough Jews (Top Ten finalist, Jewish Plays Project; upcoming production: Storefront Theatre), Waylaid (Last Frontier Theatre Conference), Karenin’s Anna (Toronto Fringe Festival, “Outstanding New Play” – NOW Magazine), and The Big Sandy River Plays (Jenny Wiley Theatre). His play Starfishes received its world premiere at the Theatre at Dance New Amsterdam in 2011 and has been produced across the United States and Canada.

With a stellar cast led by a stalwart team of “FringeNYC veterans,” and an intense, provocative script, Miss promises to be a unforgettable world premiere and a must-see production in The New York International Fringe Festival.

Critic Reviews (3)

"The playwright tells us way more than we need to know about way too many details, and in some cases way too many times. The play is saved by the agile direction of Kaitlyn Samuel, and the especially fine performances by all three actors. O'Brien is shackled with the largest share of the extraneous and redundant, but nonetheless manages to confront this broad range of circumstances effectively, without becoming a caricature in any of them."
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"Samuel chooses to have the trio mostly stand and talk, giving Albert’s text the spotlight it deserves. Perhaps more activity would add to the tension between the characters and to the naturalism this production is going for...A shocking ending that takes place after an already unnerving twist had me wishing Albert didn’t feed the need to give me the explosion I was expecting...The story of three people who have fallen in their own personal ditches and have no energy or faith left to climb out."
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"Director Samuel moves the action of 'Miss' at a reasonably even pace and supports her cast as they peel away the layers of dissemblance and desperation. It is the peeling of those layers that gives 'Miss' its strength. Too often, however, the characters get involved in implausible situations, but the denouement is worth the wait despite some bumps in the dramatic arc. Albert’s characters are well-defined and their conflicts clear. The resulting plot is interesting and thought-provoking."
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