IRT Theater | Moxie Arts| Carpal Tunnel by Cori Diaz

Performances Dates:
October 7 at 7:30pm
October 8 at 7:30pm
October 9 at 7:30pm
October 10 at 2pm and 7:30pm
October 11 at 2pm

About the Play
It’s the vaguely present day in the year 20XX and master-of-the-novel Manna Benes wants you to meet her at the Roxbury Motel. Is this the worst thing that ever happened to you? Or is that writer’s block? A passion play and a family play and a tragicomedy and a history play and a surrealist play and a transgressive novel and an ekphrastic poem and a children’s book and a meditation on dance and a dance on meditation and an instruction manual and a coupon book and a pornographic magazine and a holy text. And a love story.

Cast & Creative Team
Written by Cori Diaz
Directed by Molly Shayna Cohen
Produced by Monika Orzelowski

Manna Benes - Stephanie Orta-Vazquez
Ziggy Zeta - Sahar Lev-Shomer
Cash Downey - Connor Riordan
Kitt Schuster - Katherine Humes
Aldene Bender - Michela Murray
Polly - Saige Larmer*
O7 - Viola Albright

Stage Manager - Ari Richardson
Scenic Designer - Bridget Lindsay
Lighting Designer - Jacqueline Scaletta
Sound Designer - Ariana Cardoza
Cori Diaz - Costume Designer
Costume Assistant - Quinn McCardle

Moxie Arts NY Artistic Director - Maggie Lee
Moxie Arts NY Managing Producer - Madelyn Paquette

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity cotract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

Content Notice: Discussions of child sexual abuse

Consensual and nonconsensual substance abuse 

Mentions of suicide

About Moxie Arts NY & the Moxie Incubator

Moxie Arts NY is a Lilly Award-winning nonprofit theatre company founded in 2017 dedicated to engaging audiences with stories centering and created by people of historically excluded genders (including women, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists). Our programming provides opportunities for artists at all stages of career development, building community from the page to the stage, and everywhere in between. For more information visit www.moxiearts.org

About the Moxie IncubatorThe Moxie Incubator is an accelerated development program for new, unproduced works and aligns with Moxie’s mission of engaging audiences with stories centering women, created by artists of historically excluded genders. These pieces were selected through an open submission process to Moxie Arts NY and each received two rounds of development before these productions. Throughout this process, the nine cohort members rotated, so that all artists have worked together in different configurations across the three rounds.

IRT Theater is a grassroots laboratory for independent theater and performance in New York City, providing space and support to a new generation of artists. Tucked away in the old Archive Building in Greenwich Village, IRT’s mission is to build a community of emerging and established artists by creating a home for the development and presentation of new work.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council; A.R.T./New York’s NYC Small Theatres Fund made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation. Thank you to IndieSpace, and everyone who supports venues like ours in New York City.

ACCESS: IRT is a fully wheelchair-accessible facility. Please reach out to Kori Rushton if you have any accessibility questions or concerns, krushton@irttheater.org

PLEASE NOTE: All sales final and there is no late seating at IRT Theater.