Storytelling

Set against the backdrops of the Vietnam War, World War II and the Korean War, Beyond Glory tells the stirring, emotional, and heroic true stories of eight recipients of America’s highest military award, the Medal of Honor.

A story about a 38 year old Nigerian Woman from Schenectady New York who is still a Virgin. Her story begins with her Journey to finding True Love. However, her plan is to Lose her Virginity before she turns 40. Selected as an Honorable Mention for HFF2019.

An exploration of classic and neoclassic pieces of magic, viewed from a contemporary perspective. An interactive performance that invites audience members to become active participants, guided by storyteller and sleight of hand artist Siegfried Tieber.

Comedy Hoe is a one woman show written and performed by comedian Jil Chrissie featuring comic Angelica Mackey. This bold performance weaves fictional storytelling with standup comedy and comedic spoken word to address the adversity and hyper-sexualization that women face in America daily.

For the hood by the hood.

Prodigy follows the young life of Jin-hee Song, a gifted Korean girl growing up in America. Jin-hee is bright, odd, and fearless, like all kid champions. She loves her piano and her deepest desire is to make her father proud, but her light is challenged as she reaches for her dreams.

Musician/performer Esquzito conjures up notorious characters of "The District" in an adaptation of a Danny Barker (1909-1994) tale from The Last Days of Storyville. Interpreting Barker's "lies embellished with truth,” Esquizito makes New Orleans' redlight district and the birth of Jazz come alive.

Dark humor and raw narrative. Modern dance, en pointe ballet, and a live string duo. Alive-ish tracks the chaos and challenges of a young woman’s journey. In association with the Female Playwrights Initiative. Proceeds will benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

With the apocalypse nigh, an astronomical society accepts volunteers for the world's first time travel flight. One traveler is forced to reckon with his past, present and future demons to return home and avoid spiraling into cosmic obscurity.

SICKBOY is a collection of stories about filth & healing, as told by the chronically ill gay who lived them. Tim puts it all out there with extreme frankness, or as the Chicago Reader put it, he, “...uses boyish candor to blend absurdity, pathos, and graphic sex in ways that are deeply humanizing."

Lisa Verlo's solo show HOLLYWOODN'T is a personal journey across Hollywood's unsettling sexual landscape and casting couches of LA. Directed by and developed with Jessica Lynn Johnson, it is a musical memoir told with candor and insight into the life of an actress before women dared to speak up.

Her whole life, comedian STACY DYMALSKI has had trouble balancing who she is with who she's expected to be. Join Stacy as she takes you on a hilarious, personal journey in which she seeks an answer the eternal question, "When do bold, outspoken women go from being fun and exciting to A BIT MUCH?"

Brett is totally enamored with baseball, and has been for 25 years. And in that time, he's memorized more about baseball than anyone with access to the Internet could possibly need to know. Come watch him perform his patented Stupid Human Tricks and wax poetic about his favorite obsession.

People of different races have been asking a Black Woman named Shanara, all kinds of questions on the streets of L.A. for the past 2 years, on her “Ask A Black Woman” YouTube series. This is a theatrical & poetic response with provocative accounts of living Black in America.

UPDATED SHOW! - Now a one-woman tragicomedy, written entirely in rhyming iambic pentameter, about Nell Gwynne, the famous actress and mistress of the wild British monarch, King Charles II. From International Award Winner 2015 & 2016, & Comedy Award Nominee 2016.