Black Box

Award winning US comedian Cat Alvarado eviscerates our increasingly absurd rightwing culture while transforming religious trauma into healing laughter with her charm and impeccable comedic timing.

A one-act comedy following seven novice backpackers who share a hostel dorm together in Tirana, Albania. When a street riot breaks out in the city center, the travelers lose their patience, as they find themselves confined in a room with complete strangers.

Surrounded by a cacophony of cicadas, a preacher’s daughter and her father’s protégé succumb to lust during a secret meeting outside an abandoned church. What begins as a moment of tender intimacy spirals into conflict when guilt takes hold of one— but not the other.

In this sharp meta-comedy, a man is forced to live with his inner critic—literally—when his anxiety becomes an insufferable roommate. As their cohabitation spirals, he’s pushed into a battle for control over his own mind. Angst asks: what does it really mean to live with yourself?

“The Complete (and Abridged) Works of August Wilson” is a fast-paced, irreverent theatrical romp where two mismatched theater workers attempt to free a ghost trapped in their building—by performing the entire August Wilson cycle.

In a world where there are only two kinds of fruits - apples and bananas - what fruit are you? Banana wants to know! For this wacky little solo show, one *very normal* Banana is inviting you to join it on its first adventures into the world as an adult fruit! What could go wrong?

At the prestigious Miskatonic University, two best friends must help their unpopular classmate discover who (or what) has been kidnapping girls on campus before it claims its next victim.

“I didn’t realize I would need to know everything by my SECOND RODEO… seems a low amount of rodeos” And so it goes.

Cindy Is Right Now. She is.

“Small Engine Repair” is black comedy about three lifelong friends who meet in Frank’s Small Engine repair shop. They catch up and drink until Chad, a 19 year old college student shows up. What ensues is pure chaos.

"Love means nothing to a tennis player." Well, love meant everything to this tennis player. "45-Love" goes on an inner journey made outer as a woman reflects upon her life as a competitive tennis player, while processing her intergenerational trauma, speared on by her daughter's ask to start tennis.

When Eve refuses to accept why she exists in God’s already perfect world, she chooses knowledge over obedience at the cost of becoming fully human.