A Room of My Own Off-Broadway Original Cast

In A ROOM OF MY OWN, playwright and director Charles Messina recounts growing up with his eccentric Italian-American family in Greenwich Village. Ralph Macchio is Carl Morelli, a writer who reminisces about his adolescence and childhood dreams of the world outside his crowded downtown tenement. Wishing for his own room-and an Atari-young Carl shares the tiny studio in a five-flight crumbling walk-up apartment with his unemployed father, older sister, and strong-willed mother. Other relatives include Carl's flamboyant uncle Jackie, portrayed by Mario Cantone, and estranged aunt Jeannie. Messina's new Off-Broadway comedy takes a hilarious and heartfelt look at New York City in the late 1970s.