In a small intimate space with barely two feet separating actors from audience members, a play called Boy Gets Girl written by Rebecca Gilman is performed as the first Lab series of the academic year and also the last of the year of 2025. Director Abby Guinigundo, a senior stage manager major, has merged the production with careful research and inventive staging to create a version of the play that feels both immersive and alarmingly current.
Set in the late 1990s, Boy Gets Girl follows Theresa Bedell, a writer whose life shifts irreversibly after a seemingly average blind date with a man named Tony Ross. “The show starts so normal. It’s a normal first date,” the director explains. “And then it kind of goes south from there, like her life gets turned upside down from this date she went on.”
Tony Ross, played by Massimo Papa, first appears as a perfectly ordinary man. The mismatch between his harmless exterior and his escalating behavior forms the tension that drives the show. As his fixation intensifies, Theresa—played by Mikayla Adamission—finds herself trapped inside a nightmare she never saw coming…