Storytelling

Songs from the monologue/song piece, CLOWNS, GODDESS & TOUGH GUYS. The show, a 'Soul Monologue with Music,' features original bluesy-pop songs in the style of Ben Folds, Joe Jackson and Randy Newman. Performed on piano and sung by James Schneider.

A story that explores a unique relationship between a Father, a Son and The Holy Ghost.

Tonya Meek’s bittersweet comedy, “Flying Standby”, reveals how the determination to escape her alcoholic mother carried her through a turbulent ride of addiction, lost love, and a final desperate flight toward reconciliation. Please extinguish all smoking materials and prepare for take off.

The 80's was a time before (gasp!) cell phones or computers. Can you imagine such a time existed? Madonna was just starting and she was even a little chubby then. This fun retrospective multimedia show is a personal love letter of coming of age (like totally) 80's style.

MIND THE GAP. Bridge the gap between potential audience & you. Evaluation & take-aways for immediate use. ACCESSIBILITY IN ARTS. Get introduced to groups who would love to attend but literally aren't invited b/c of limitations PLUS orgs who can fund & give you access on a tight budget.

Jim Loucks’ live-wire solo show takes you back to the Deep South with preachers shoutin’ from the mountaintops, mamas pickin’ switches, and Hellfire just a heartbeat away. Witty storytelling, quirky characters, down-home Gospel music. Director: Carol Rusoff. “Critic’s Pick”-Cincinnati Citybeat

My "Senses" came alive in a way I have never imagined. I was inspired to create a show about relationships, write about being a woman, write about hope, and write about the importance of what living is through our senses. Abby

First Love/Worst Love, is an examination of love and its mutability, as expressed through five actors and twelve short stories. Experience love’s peaks and pitches - disappointment, passion, caution, faith, indolence, dread, fury, and, perhaps most importantly of all, hope.

Two one-act plays that take place in the world of dreams. In the first, a man is forced to meet the most evil person alive. In the second, a woman has a vision of meeting her adult daughter, thirty years in the future.

“What’s a nice girl like you NOT drinking in a place like this?” Tara Handron discards clichėd depictions of recovery in her portrayal of Hope and numerous other female alcoholics (some sober and some not so sober) stemming from her thesis research on the subject.

A woman's lifelong search for true love in all the wrong places, with a seemingly endless parade of disappointing dates, sewn together by years of self-help guru’s trying to assist her struggle to find Mr. Right.

Les is taking a very scary trip. He is going to Bakersfield . When his boyfriend Mike is invited to his high school reunion ,Les decides to join him but Les doesn't realize that this is going to be the ride of terror because none of Mike's classmates know that Mike is gay .

Three original short pieces from the brilliant minds at Fierce Backbone come together to represent writers' interpretations of the down and dirty LA Street Scene. Includes THE POOL OF GOLD IN THE SKY and DUSTED by Jan O'Connor, and TRIO by Amy Tofte.

Michael's Daughter is Ciera Payton's one-woman show that highlights her unique papertrail relationship with her incarcerated father. Ciera Payton is an actress and writer from New Orleans, Louisiana. www.CieraPayton.com www.MicahelsDaughter.org

A beautifully shot and executed drama. Currently on the festival circuit, it has already screened at fourteen festivals worldwide and won three awards. Director: Anna Simone Scott Writer/Producer: Terri Sissman Cinematographer: Danna Kinsky Starring: Sarah De La Isla & Joel Stoffer; Tara Samuel