The Garbologists Reviews

Washington Post- Recommended

"...Shanara Gabrielle's regional-premiere staging may feel a touch high-strung if you find your traumas more affecting when they're underplayed, and the eventual revelations of Joelle's plot prove structurally neater than real life tends to be. But then as Danny and Marlowe discover, even the messes others leave in their wake can be a gift when they meet the moment just right."

DC Theater Arts- Recommended

"...Written by Lindsay Joelle and directed by Shanara Gabrielle, The Garbologists follows the unfolding of an unlikely friendship between two New York City sanitation department workers: a highly educated African American woman named Marlowe (Yesenia Iglesias) and a blue-collar, recently divorced white man named Danny (Chris Genebach). Danny has been wearing his DSNY uniform for nine years, but the show begins on Marlowe's first day in the truck. When Marlowe reveals early on that she graduated with two degrees from Columbia, she prompts the audience and Danny to ask why she is there. Those questions build as the show moves beyond the surface into the characters' lives, little by little."

Washington City Paper- Recommended

"...Lindsay Joelle's The Garbologists explores the unlikely bond between a veteran New York City sanitation worker and a newbie. When Danny (Chris Genebach) is paired up with Marlowe (Yesenia Iglesias)-named after the Elizabethan playwright-for her first shift, they fall into a well-worn dynamic: Danny is a fast-talking blue-collar White guy, while Marlowe is a Black woman with two Ivy League degrees who keeps her cards close to her fluorescent vest."