True Stories

These three original pieces were written, directed, and performed by recent graduates of the Art of Acting Studio Professional Conservatory. Developed in 2017 as a classroom project, each is an artistic and creative exploration of the life of a notable person throughout history.

SEX RATED G is a personal trip across Hollywood's unsettling sexual landscape. Lisa Verlo explores the subject while recounting her sexual resume with such candor that in the end SEX will no longer be a four-letter word.

What a single woman goes through when she realizes her biological clock is winding down, and her chance at motherhood is slipping away!

On a twisting road to acceptance, a woman journeys into the deepest depths of her emotions to find clarity in the aftermath of her rape.

The feel of a 70’s home, F&B is a surprising story about a straight-laced nerdy kid who signs a "Partnership for a Drug Free America" contract. One night 35 years later that late bloomer is given an MDMA. It’s a story of control, propaganda, fear, friendship, and change. Teal Fink Guest Stars!

The City of Happymont is your typical small but growing city, and while the Happymont City Council tries to keep order and get business done, the Public, or at least those who participate in Public Comment, takes up the Council's time with Conspiracy theories, rants, and musical numbers.

June 16th 1972, Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy have business to tend. Tonight's Mission: Oversee a group of five men sent to repair listening devices they installed five weeks earlier into DNC's Headquarters at the Watergate Complex in Washington DC. What the fuck could possibly go wrong?

An one man show from Matthew Gudernatch, who touches on what it was like to lose his mother at a tender age. There are stories, songs, jokes, and other attempts to turn all of the unending pain he's endured into a fun performance with maybe just a pinch of male nudity. (It's a comedy)

Comedian Daniel Lobell has been fat his whole life. Now 35, he is determined to conquer his food addiction. In his show, he talks about his lifelong struggle with fat and how he will get healthy and live forever!

An epic journey through the bowels of one man searching for meaning in a hot, steaming pile of chronic problems. It’s a real shit show.

"Come fly with me and see behind the veil." Journey with Janus, Enchantress, teller of tales, singer of songs, hippie Witch, mystic, priestess, fairy cousin, revolutionary, and flawed saint who flies to the moon on gossamer wings as she weaves a web of magical entertainment and inspiration.

Judy Garland is angry. Tasked with dictating her memoirs alone to a tape recorder, the legend's life story quickly gives way to the searing inner-rage & personal revenge fantasies of a woman left robbed & broken by decades of abuse in Hollywood, now living the profound heartbreak of not being heard.

Devised from true life experiences of the company members, Escalation D explores the spectrum of consent, from the seemingly innocuous platinums to the life altering deep dark grays. You will laugh, you will cry, you might need a drink --- but our hope is to inspire respectful discourse.

"My Life in 3 Easy Payments" is a one-man show, based on the memoir of former QVC host Dale Guy Madison, exploring the thirst for fame in the world of reality television.

A riff on Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, UNREEL recreates a foolish young man's uncertain journey to his dark side the night before his college entrance exams. A comedic journey about the confusing truth of Kiergegaard's maxim: Life must be lived forwards, but it can only be understood backwards