Vision Disturbance

(1F, 1M)

Two lost souls converge in Reading, PA: a Greek immigrant whose eyesight suffers from a grueling divorce, and the retina specialist who treats her.

“Marvelously strange and humane... beautifully wrought” - Time Out New York

After many misguided efforts to stay afloat, a deadbeat dad who has receded into the compact, bitter shell of his own confused thoughts, makes a last-ditch effort to salvage his relationship with his estranged 18-year-old daughter. When he invites her to spend her first winter break from college with him in his recently robbed row home that doubles as a gun shop, he is stunned by a stray jolt of the unfamiliar: a home suddenly alive with disquiet, and a shocking glimpse at a life with potential.

“Masciotti treats her characters with a kindness and a patience that are usually accorded to only the very young or very old.” - The New York Times

Social Security

(2F, 1M)

June, a retired pretzel factory worker, finds herself deaf after forty years with machines, widowed, and stranded in the urban muck of Reading, PA. She forges ahead gamely, aided by her robust will to find the good in life. But generous in her affections and unworldly-wise, June’s yearning for ordinary human companionship only drives her further into danger.

“Masciotti mines the banalities of everyday chatter for heroic poetry.” - The New York Times

Raw Bacon from Poland

(3F, 5M)

For shoe salesman and aspiring personal trainer Dennis Toledo, a lifetime of trouble assumes a new intensity after a bad tour in Iraq. When he’s arrested on a domestic violence charge and sentenced to Brooklyn Treatment Court, he finds himself perched on the edge of recovery with an all-consuming drive to win full custody of his six-year-old daughter.

“Let fly with the virtual confetti please … Masciotti’s distinctively awkward dialogue has never sounded more organic or revelatory of character.” - The New York Times

No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh

(3F, 2M)

A master Russian tailor struggles to convince her assistant to take over her business as she loosens her grip on the material world. When a deranged ex resurfaces, she is forced to reconsider what her legacy can be and make peace with what can’t be fixed, salvaged, or even known.

“…keen and unflashy…No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh is interested in what it means to lose a business that has quietly woven itself into the fabric of a neighborhood… Masciotti… is also characteristically drawn here to the richness of language.” - The New York Times

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Anthologized monologues:

Best Women’s Stage Monologues (2014)

Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35 (2014)

Best Women’s Stage Monologues (2016)

Best Men’s Stage Monologues (2018)

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