Candy Girls

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By Jeana Scotti

Directed by Ashley Bufkin

A candy and ice cream store has their annual health inspection coming up, but it's filled with more roaches than candy. The manager tries to get them in shape to get their A in the window, but the teenage girls who work there are more focused on college apps, licking pieces of candy and putting them back in the bins, and being watched on the new security cameras by the owner, Rick. When Tanya tries to report Rick, things only get messier because as we know, roaches can find their way into even the smallest crack.

Jeana Scotti is a playwright from Staten Island who currently lives in Brooklyn. She is a 2025 Audrey Resident at New Georges and a 2025 MacDowell Fellow. She was a member of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group and is a New Georges Affiliated artist. Recent plays include: A Necessary Killing (Clubbed Thumb’s Winter Works, dir. Laura Dupper), and oh, Honey (dir. Carsen Joenk, site-specific production at the restaurant Little Egg in Brooklyn, Ugly Face Theatre). She is the co-founder of Ugly Face Theatre, where she makes site-specific and community-focused theatre. MFA Playwriting, Rutgers Mason Gross. jeanascotti.com