Dark Comedy

An absurd examination of modern storytelling with real life mother and daughter KT Vogt and Audrey Cirzan. Some profanity.

It’s 1543. A Portuguese ship sets sail with goods from Japan. Kira, a Japanese girl, is isolated on the ship and discovered by the naive Portuguese, Maria. A complicated historial feud is distilled through the two young girls. Can we find a sense of home within the people we’re trained to oppose?

When a couple of ducks take a break out at sea from their long migration, they begin discussing important matters like the meaning of life, the best kind of worms to eat, and why they do the things they do, like flying in a V formation. This is a puppet show that is both funny and deep.

In this absurdist dark comedy, a woman and her significant other return to her ancestral home where her eccentric sister has planned a night of fun and games that soon turns sinister when a time-honored family tradition is revealed.

In Another Life is a new fantasy stage play that tells the story of a group of strangers who are brought together when they discover that they each have developed memories of past lives in a magical world, and that world is the setting of the latest bestselling fantasy novel.

ONE NIGHT ONLY! In this PULP FICTION STAR WARS, an army deserter and his partner—the alien super-intelligence inhabiting his spaceship—set course for darkly-comic, scifi adventure in a multimedia, audience participation, staged reading extravaganza! Sex! Violence! Sarcasm! It's everything you love!

Thirteen year old Charlie is trying to recruit friends to stay with him in his dad's doomsday bunker to save them from dying in the upcoming 2012 apocalypse. One by one, Charlie's peers realize the end of the world might just be easier than the terrifying reality of growing up.

HFF DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP WINNER 2024. When Amireh, the matriarch of a British-Iranian family goes missing, her husband and children are thrust into an off-beat spiritual journey that forces them to contend with secrets, infidelity, death ceremonies, an investigation and the psychedelic drug DMT.

A sketch comedy show all about milk. It’s post-apocalyptic. It’s creamy. It’s sometimes revolting (yes, people have walked out during one of the sketches). We ask the central question: when milk goes extinct, how will people remember it? Hopefully as something worth drinking.

Callie finds herself in another abusive relationship where she must defeat her killer boyfriend. With the help of a 911 operator and her knowledge of horror films, will she finally break the cycles of abuse and be the final girl standing? Inspired by true events. Directed by Tyler Hansen.

After comedian/filmmaker Heather Fink’s dad suffers a paralyzing stroke, she struggles to pull herself up from sinking. From caregiving to death and the midlife crisis, QUICKSAND is a storytelling and clown exploration of the realest sh*t we face.

In an epic one-hour comedy-variety show, Los Angeles Drag Duo Annie and Lorelei come face-to-face with oil giants from ExxonMobil who threaten to build a fracking drill over their home drag bar.

The Altruists by Nicky Silver is a biting dark comedy that follows a group of young radicals in New York City who are as dedicated to their many causes as they are dysfunctional. When self-obsessed soap opera star Sydney commits a crime of passion, the group's morality is put to the ultimate test.

“What The Chuck?!” is a peek into a possible future where a group of highly trained government Actors from the United States Dept. of DRAMA need your help to decide which plays & playwrights need to be BANNED forever. The future of theatre is thrust into your hands in this interactive dark comedy.

One woman’s personal journey through heartbreak, despair, self-redemption and transformation.