“An absolute hoot, while being insightful and hopeful!"

“An absolute hoot, while being insightful and hopeful! Loved every minute!”

-Habeeb SultanA, via Twitter

“Spectacular eye opening performance!!"

“It was such a spectacular eye opening performance!! I would recommend it to everyone!.”

-@cherrchanfx, via Instagram

“The acting was brilliant, the story extremely compelling”

“I am currently a PhD student in Computer Science at U of T, and I loved Truth Values. It touched on so many relevant subjects and had such insightful and hilarious commentary. Gioia validated a lot of similar experiences I have had in the field, without, ironically, over-dramatizing their severity or downstream effects. I thought the acting was brilliant, the story was extremely compelling, and the underlying truth the play captured was evident.”

-Micaela Consens, Graduate student, University of Toronto

“Thank you for your courage…”

“Thank you for your courage to tell your personal story to the world, and to give others a chance to share their stories.”

-Maryam Haghighi, Director, Data Science, Bank of Canada

“Everyone… will find something of their own reflected in her play”

“The play explores the joy of being a mathematician, the pains of graduate school, and the path of discovering that research isn’t the same as taking classes. Some of the topics she talks about are specific for women, some are specific for mathematicians, but I think everyone who ever had a hard time in their career and thought about changing it will find something of their own reflected in her play.”

-Martina Balagovic, M.I.T. Ph.D. in Mathematics, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of York

“True hilarity, but crosses often and deftly into serious topics”

"Her story is filled with moments of true hilarity, but crosses often and deftly into serious topics of gender inequality, gender bias, and expectations - society's and her own."

– ExperienceLA.com

“The characters were so believable that I thought they were right there on stage with her”

-Sibel Jahangirli, Student, via LinkedIn

“De Cari… drew huge laughs from the audience”

“De Cari’s comedic impressions of the eccentric characters she encountered at MIT are where Truth Values really shines. She drew huge laughs from the audience as she introduced them to the graduate students and professors who made her time at MIT alternately inspiring and miserable, including a cluelessly amorous officemate, a fellow researcher with nihilistic dreams of nuclear destruction and a Gilbert and Sullivan-loving professor who mentored her through both her research and her fledgling performing arts career. .”

-Waterloo news

“A joyous synergy”

“Concocting a joyous synergy between science and art.”

-The Medium

“Extremely important work… deserves to be performed at every university”

“Thank you for a wonderful performance ... This is an extremely important work which deserves to be performed at every university in the land.”

-Lied Center for the Arts, Lawrence, Kansas

“Resonance a-plenty… Thank you for speaking your voice”

"...Am in the midst of doing the Engineering PhD Thing right now, so... yep, resonance a-plenty...Thank you for speaking your voice, and living your calling -- both into mathematics and out of it. Keep doing whatever you were put into this universe to do, and the world will continue to benefit from your awesomeness (which is considerable)...Rock on."

-Purdue Engineering Student

“Depiction of the wacky mathematicians… helping us to laugh at ourselves”

“Gioia’s story is engaging, entertaining, and personal – one woman’s path to find herself and her passions while pursuing a doctorate in M.I.T.’s Math Department. The depiction of the wacky mathematicians is both frank and sometimes timeless, helping us to laugh at ourselves and our little community, glad that we can now wear pink sweaters and short skirts without anyone taking offense.”

-Jennifer French, M.I.T. Ph.D. in Mathematics, Postdoctoral Associate, M.I.T.’s Teaching and Learning Library

“Hilarious… rich and wry reductio ad absurdum”

“Hilarious one-woman show … De Cari nails not only accents and postures but the presence of each of her impersonations … opts for the refreshing delights of humor, even compassion, and creates a rich and wry reductio ad absurdum.”

-EDGE Boston

“…humour, insight and compassion."

“"De Cari delves into the challenges women face in male-dominated STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) with humour, insight and compassion.”

-Jackman Humanities institute news

“Mathematics lost a brilliant mind… but theatre folk may well rejoice”

"Truth Values is a timely and fascinating story about a brilliant young woman pursuing an advanced degree in mathematics at M.I.T., and the sexism, latent and blatant, that she encounters. Though there is much to laugh about here, there is also much to enrage anyone who is not a closet chauvinist. Gioia's performance would be satisfying in any circumstances, but the fact that Truth Values is autobiographical adds wonder and zest to the experience. Mathematics lost a brilliant mind when she decided to become an actor, but theatre folk may well rejoice!"

-Marvin Kaye, Artistic Director, The Open Book

“Courageous memoir… virtuosic and memorable”

“Gioia De Cari's one-woman show, Truth Values, is a courageous memoir – funny and moving and beautifully paced. Her zig-zagging through many different characters is virtuosic. It's memorable." 

-David Leisner, guitarist/composer, Department Chair, Manhattan School of Music

“Master thesis wrapped into great theatre“

“This is an incredible success story, after all. Gioia’s master thesis (wrapped into great theatre) received more public exposure than any Ph.D. thesis ever will – let alone the attention of a departmental meeting 20 years after graduation.”

-Katrin Wehrheim, Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

“Intimate, challenging, and playful… force and meaningful élan”

“This wonderful show … intimate, challenging, and playful … is full of humor, sadness, anger, intellectual stultification, and intellectual ecstasy. She charmingly morphs from individual-to-individual and gender-to-gender with seamless grace and ease. She shocks with her big and beautiful voice when it’s least expected and crawls, capers, and strides about the stage with force and meaningful élan.”

-Open Media Boston