Inspiring

The Allure of Thug Life is a Hip Hopsical comedy about Mélia, an upper middle-class teen from Oakland who wants to be a gangster rapper. She longs to go from Riches to Rags & encounters Bullying, Boyfriends & Bullets! If you're scared, stay home. If you're fearless, roll through for this wild ride!

A teenaged girl, Young Jules, turns to her favorite rappers for the advice her father refuses to give. Through their lyrics, she navigates bullies, boys and 90’s teen angst to find the courage to go after her dreams. From De La Soul to J Dilla, Jules listens and finds her own voice!

An original and contemporary storytelling by Los Angeles women of South Asian descent. From their honest and emotional hearts, they recall their upbringings, relive their disparate experiences and join together to celebrate Womanhood!

Get on the bus—we’re going to summer camp! In a simpler time of trust-falls and visits to the medical tent, some wounds are too deep for a camp nurse to heal. Michelle Murphy embodies her younger selves, through rejection, self-worth & survival, Murphy reveals why she is, in fact, a keeper.

Betrayal. Boxes. And the road to reclaiming oneself. How a nice, hard-working, Catholic girl from the Midwest lost her entire set of belief systems... and ended up finding herself. Laughter, tears, automotive lingo, and dancing expected.

Laser Webber, trans performer known for his award-winning comedy music, presents a one-person musical show about the history of trans men. Meet Alan Hart, who got gender-confirming surgery in 1917; Samuel Bundy, whose legend includes a shark and a jail; and renowned author JK Rowling, for reasons.

A call center call girl struggling to make in-person connections, discovers intimacy and requited love with a mannequin man she rescues from drowning.

In conservative Southwest Virginia, a puritanical pastor attempts to deliver his first sermon, but is interrupted by the many obscene voices in his head. He must confront his theology, sexuality, and identity in order to finish his sermon and... to survive. Written & Performed by Josiah Blount.

The story of getting over one’s self and doing the damn thing.

Sick of world problems? Good news: we're fixing them ALL tonight! In just one hour, comedian Ember Knight promises to achieve world peace - during the show. Packed with music and comedy, WORLD PEACE confronts our addiction to being the hero. Co-directed by Deanna Fleysher (Butt Kapinski, Tree)

A wisp, a witch, and a waitress all learn to live in an apartment where the souls are as overdue as the water bill. This sapphic saga of loving and loathing in a world of occultic observations proposes the query, just what or who are we willing to endure through life, death, love, and regret?

Stumbling down the street at 11:30 a.m. drunk, Effie is the kind of girl you'd avoid eye contact with. We think we know her, but we don't know the half of it. Welsh playwright Gary Owen uses the Greek myth of Iphigenia to tell a modern story: exploring social deprivation, poverty, and class.

On the last day of 1982, minutes before the New Year, Tennessee Williams, beaten and alone, encounters a homeless teenager on the streets of NYC. Although seemingly opposites, they learn they have much in common in their attempts to conquer fear, loneliness and to survive.

Samantha’s comedy partner Brit died by suicide in the middle of writing a comedy show about mental illness for them to perform together. So… this is not that show! This is what that show became, performed by a comedian trying to figure out what she has to become now with out her sidekick.

A Retrospection: "A retrospective no one asked for from a clown no one knows. " Claire Woolner, absurdist comedian and award winning studio artist, blows hard on the edges of performance art and swims into surrealist clown. Bits, pieces and breakdowns. This is important work.