ABOUT THE SHOW

College hook-ups, female friendship, football, and a medieval saint who cuts off her nose to spite a pack of rapacious vikings. A ferocious satire, Nosejob asks, how do we reckon with the messy sexcapades of our past? What do we owe to the legacy of women who suffered so that we might flourish? And, are the vikings kind of hot?

Set in the early 2010’s at a Catholic university where boys are “burying” their faces in girls’ boobs as part of a schoolwide prank, Nosejob tells the story of a few sorority friends who plot revenge against a contingent of lecherous jocks. That is until one of the girls, Devon Chase—athletic trainer for the football team—finds herself distracted by more pressing urges. In the afterhours of the locker room, she stumbles into a white-hot flirtation with the assistant football coach. Not to mention her looming medievalism presentation, and visitations from a drunken nun who holds the secret to a dark betrayal. Indebted to the legacy of women who suffered so that she might flourish, Devon must find a pathway between political courage and personal pleasure.

Nosejob was a semifinalist for the O’Neill Playwright Conference, and it received development support from Colgate University, The Director Residency Program of The Drama League, Lightning Rod Special’s Sound Break audio series, and Theater Exile’s X-hibition Series.

Nosejob was part of the 2024 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.