Diversity

"Vice" is a sci-fi live theatre-film hybrid that explores the devastation and hope within imagined futures, and ultimately asks: How can you survive when you have been programmed out of existence? How can you reach someone who’s vice is a reality where you do not exist?

***WINNER HFF DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP -- A struggling Lebanese-American actress forms the first all-Arab improv team in this shawarma spin on "Pitch Perfect" ensemble competitions. With the Five Pillars of Improv, our band of underdogs incorporate REAL improv from audience suggestions.

Presenting two student one acts in a staged reading: Spaghetti Western by Juan Ruiz: When family expectations and your dreams clash, if you cant take the heat get out of the kitchen. Pennies from Heaven by Jordan Pettit: With Covid now just a memory, two strangers reminisce.

“****OFFICIAL WINNER OF THE HOLLYWOOD ENCORE PRODUCERS’ AWARD ****” Caminos: A Mother's Journey is derived from interviews and recounts the TRUE stories of seven brave Mothers who journey to The United States of America in search of better opportunities for their children.

****OFFICIAL WINNER OF THE HOLLYWOOD ENCORE PRODUCERS’ AWARD **** Pulse of the City is an electrifying glimpse into the lives that run through an, “every-mans city”, but what happens when stresses arise and we are pushed to far?

It's been seventy-six years since "Waiting For Lefty" premiered. Inspired by the NY Taxi Strike of 1934, Odets explored the ills of society at the time and use that platform to call for radical change. But in the time since then, what's actually changed? Have things gotten better for us, or worse?

Kira, a mixed black & Latina woman, who grows up believing she is white, takes us on a journey through her life as she struggles to find and accept her true identity. Kira’s truthfulness carries us through the topics surrounding anti-blackness, & we witness her growth towards self love.

A Korean who apparently is not Korean enough, and Black and Korean who is neither Black nor Korean enough...so what are we? Come watch us as we try and find out where we fit in and why our identities matter.

Stevie Mack's Diary of a Crackhead is a poignant and funny one-man show about how this LA-born comic rose from the ashes of addiction and recovery, a family riddled with crime, pimps, pushers, addiction, gangster ethics and mental institutions, to overcome adversity against all odds.

Now what? You've graduated from a great university. You have 15 cents to your name. You're a brown Latina from a low-income household. There's a lot stacked against you and it's all hitting at once. Let's unpack because we just moved back home and the American Dream looks different from this angle.