True Stories

Dick pics, gross messages, and being overly sexualized are three things I have dealt with my entire life. Why? Because I am fat! This is a comedic storytelling show about the complexities of dating while being fat. You'll have fun! You'll rethink your fatphobia! And yes you will be seeing dicks!

Overly attached GenX Sapphic and former Lesbian Avenger rises up after fascism grips America and targets the LGBT community. Steeped in the internal conflict to stay and protest amidst the fall, she rallies her queer friends to research asylum. Nostalgic for the '90s, they face it together.

LA-based playwright Stacie Burrows thought she grew up rich in Texas in the 80s, only to find out it was all a facade. Learn how she got poor quick in this humorous-serious solo show about debt featuring an original soundtrack.

A One Woman Journey through truth, transformation and triumph told with dance, spoken word and original music

Because some stories are not told with words alone. SPLIT: Between Two Nervous Systems is a deeply moving solo dance-theatre experience about migration, identity, womanhood, and the hidden impact of complex trauma. If you’ve ever reinvented yourself, this show will stay with you.

POSTER CHILD is not just my coming out story, it is love letter to all those talented and pioneering women of 1970's and early 80's TV. Come see how Charlie's Angels played a crucial role in my journey of self-discovery. Told with a great deal of humor, humanity and a lot of heart.

Award-winning artist Duane Forrest blends the timeless music of Nat King Cole with powerful storytelling in a moving exploration of legacy, identity, quiet resistance and what it means to belong.

An intimate one-woman show uncovering a life lived against the odds, overcoming domestic violence and other hardships. With honesty and humor, she shares her journey through pain, faith, and grace—transforming struggle into strength and pain into laughter, as survival becomes transformation.

THE FIRST BATTLE AGAINST THE MACHINES!!! Did you know... before AI, there was the power loom? Rural England. 1812. Young soldiers come home to find themselves replaced by technology. With nowhere left to turn -- their small town becomes the battleground for the future of humanity.

Please Don’t Cry is a one-woman show that highlights hilarious moments hidden in the darkest of times. Dione is traditionally a character sketch actress. After a dramatic period of life filled with death, depression, and divorce, this is her first performance unmasked—as none other than herself.

Experience the true story of a colorful cartoonist, a bumbling doctor, and a home invasion survivor as they use their humorous stories, goofy toons, and traumatic past to reflect on a life filled with laughs, gaffes, and a few too many good byes.

Elisha left Singapore for Silicon Valley to save her startup. Instead, she got an identity she didn’t ask for, a spectacular “pivot,” and a front-row seat to her American Dream going up in flames. Now she’s taking it all back—becoming its final comedic boss: the Alpha Asian.

The Alligators Of Malibu, a solo show performed by Award winning Storyteller David Ker Schermerhorn (aka Michael-David Ker) sharing his comic heartfelt junior high experience of moving from a small town in Upstate New York to Malibu in 1977. A very different Malibu than the one people know now.

A dark comedy special about not giving up: chronic illness, dead dads, shitty jobs, and Hollywood rejection. Raw, funny, and uncomfortably specific. She hasn't made it, but she's not dead yet.

The journey to motherhood is a magical process -- if magic includes blood, tears, and lots of pretending that magic is all beautiful when it's actually odd and painful. 7 performers each 7 distinctly different short stories, developed with tears and laughter through The Crow's Storyectomy series.