INSIDE A BIGGER BOX premiered at the 78^th Street Theatre Lab January 2003.  Directed by Jude Domski.

“Pop-culture references make statements of their own in Ms. Harnetiaux’s deep, meaningful one-act play.”

- New York Times

“Trish Harnetiaux’s witty script offers a fresh take on the perennial subject of people who feel trapped in their lives.”

- The New Yorker

“Inside a Bigger Box provocatively sketches in a story that suggests more than it shows.  Like a skillful farce, it demonstrates the power of the right few lines, whether charcoaled on vellum or scribbled on a Post-It.”

- The Village Voice

“Harnetiaux’s twisted comic sensibility gives her audience permission to take her damaged characters seriously or not – as one desires.  Most likely they will leave you laughing; the alternative would be too painful. … Neurotic New York City is a fine starting point for the world-premiere of this idiosyncratic gem.”

- Show Business Weekly

STRAIGHT ON TIL MORNING premiered at 78^th Street Theatre Lab September 2004. Directed by Jude Domski.

Domski and Harnetiaux have sublimely straddled the magic and lure of a community like Williamsburg and the frustrations caused by a transient group within an ever-changing neighborhood.

- offoffonline.com

Harnetiaux has brilliantly interweaved her adaptation with facts from Barrie’s life and the plot of his best-known tale.

- offoffonline.com

Straight On Til Morning is an oddly appealing show.  It’s thought provoking and often thoroughly entertaining.

- Curtain Up

THE DORSAL STRIATUM premiered as part of The Drilling Company’s REVENGE festival in June 2005.  Directed by Jude Domksi.

The final piece of the night is arguably the best of the show. In The Dorsal Striatum by Trish Harnetiaux, we find Jack (Dave Marantz), a scientist who’s been jilted by his wife and is desperately seeking vengeance. He discovers that thoughts of revenge stimulate a part of the brain called the dorsal striatum. With the right equipment, these brain impulses can be harnessed into pure electricity (a la The Matrix). Jack dreams of becoming a famous, respected scientist, and rubbing his success in his ex-wife’s face. Sure enough, he makes a helmet that can draw electricity from the dorsal striatum, and uses it to power a prop lamp (that really lights up onstage). Just how powerful is the human desire to get revenge? Well, this play let’s audiences watch one man explore that question.

- nytheatre.com

I WILL COME LIKE A THIEF premiered at 78^th Street Theatre Lab May 2006, created with Jude Domski.

Sure, it’s spring, but it’s cloudy and we’re going to stay with the dark vibe for the Gothamist pick of the week. A new play by Trish Harnetiaux, it successfully evokes, on the tiny black stage of the, a fully-fledged world of panic and confusion as eight characters deal with the news that their city is soon to be destroyed. A strong cast, particularly Carey Cromelin as a tourist who’s got more to her than meets the eye, and Jerry Zellers as the Mayor alternating between propaganda machine and authentic human, makes Harnetiaux’s troubling (but occasionally uplifting!) vision of people’s reactions to such threatening circumstances all the more immediate and important.

- The Gothamist

A GOPHER IN THE NINTH WARD premiered as part of The Drilling Company’s SECURITY festival in November 2006, it was  directed by Eric Nightengale.

A Gopher in the Ninth Ward is one of the more deliciously nutty outings. A chirpy little woman (Carol Scudder) and her husband Frank (Michael Gnat) have come to the Ninth Ward after the hurricane. She hopes to win a prize by finding the best area of devastation against which to photograph the stuffed gopher she’s nicked from her boss.

The horrors of the world have ratcheted up Frank’s humanity to dangerous levels; one day he woke up screaming and couldn’t stop, so his wife had his vocal cords removed. Even now he screams, silently. Before his wife gaily goes on her hunt for the best backdrop, she trusses him up like a pig. That should keep both of them fairly secure.

- Greenwich Village Gazette