GOOD BOYS ANONYMOUS EXAMINES THE HIDDEN COST OF PEOPLE-PLEASING AT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE 2026

Good Boys Anonymous

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Press comps available on request.

LOS ANGELES, CA – Writer, producer, co-director, and performer Bill Prudich brings the world premiere of Good Boys Anonymous to The Actors Company as part of the 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Co-directed by Rick Simone Friedland, Good Boys Anonymous immerses audience in a staged meeting: one chair, one mic, seven very different histories. Each confession peels back another layer of the quiet, lifelong panic that comes with never being allowed to disappoint.

Through a series of intimate confessions, Good Boys Anonymous follows seven distinct voices as they reckon with family conditioning, shame, faith, work, survival, and the exhausting pressure to please. Rather than offering diagnoses or easy catharsis, the show stays close to the messy, recognizable truth of people pleasing—the way it can pass for kindness while slowly hollowing someone out. Moments of dry, surprised laughter surface inside the tension, the way they do in real life: half defense, half relief.

Performed in an intimate circle at The Actors Company as part of Hollywood Fringe, Good Boys Anonymous gives audiences the feeling of sitting in the meeting themselves: listening, recognizing patterns, and noticing where their own stories rhyme with the ones onstage. It’s a compact, actor driven piece about family, faith, work, identity, and the quiet deals people make with themselves in order to stay loved.

Performance Schedule (The Actors Company, 916 N Formosa Ave, Los Angeles)
June 5 – 8:30 PM (preview)
June 11 – 9:30 PM
June 13 – 1:30 PM
June 16 – 8:00 PM
June 21 – 12:00 PM
June 24 – 7:30 PM
June 27 – 10:00 PM

Production details

Good Boys Anonymous
Written, produced, and co-directed by Bill Prudich
Co-directed by Rick Simone Friedland
Runtime: 55 minutes / 7 voices
Venue: The Actors Company (916 N Formosa Ave), 2026 Hollywood Fringe Festival

Tickets and full schedule: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/13895?tab=details

Press, interviews, photos, and reviewer comps:
Bill Prudich | [email protected] | 818 429 2813

Director’s Statement:
“No diagnosis. Detonation. Each person fights the same demon from a different angle. ‘Good’ isn’t virtue; it’s a role that eventually crushes whoever keeps playing it. This isn’t therapy or a lecture—it’s an hour in a room where the mask finally slips.”