True Stories

Sistahs Ink Productions presents An Yet Another Evening With The Sistahs' "Unsung Sheroes". We travel back in time to hear three historical black women from the unknown to the known. On this particular journey we hear from Anarcha, Ellen Craft and Shirley Chisholm. Join us on this remarkable trip!

An aspiring young performer named Petal takes on the role of caregiver after her mother's diagnosis with a mental illness . Petal's life is abruptly interrupted yet again when her neighborhood becomes gentrified and Petal and her mother have to leave their family home.

Best of Broadwater 2019, this musical features award winning singer/songwriter Brian Joseph. Through songs, words and photos, he presents a funny, moving portrait of a cancer caregiver, enraged by soup and ghosts. "Joseph is an actor, singer and songwriter of the first order.” - Oakland Tribune

Our award-winning show in it's new iteration. A cast who has created and written a show of life, love and gratitude. This is our 11th version of the YOU Project and all have won encore awards. Don't miss either version of this intimate lovely piece of theatre.

Beginning as an Instagram dating experiment, "Mandy Picks a Husband" goes live at The Actors Company! Almost 40 and totally single, Mandy takes us on a hilarious 60-minute rollercoaster ride as she unearths the magic elixir for her unmarried soul.

Come laugh and learn with 2019 Fringe Artists who are "chronologically gifted" - bringing a lifetime of experience onstage – and hear from a panel of professionals about the value of telling our stories throughout our lives.

Imagine you only had minutes to decide what to take before your house burns down. What would you grab? Michael David Ker took his family photos, his surfboard, and sense of humor…The fire was just the grand finale of a year full of loss. A deeply personal show is full of humor, heartbreak, and hope.

CATHARSIS is a solo show created to process one’s personal journey towards self-recognition amidst the (de)stabilizing effects of adoption. Megh invites audiences to occupy her [head]space as she uses poetry, movement, and sound to remember her histories and explore her futures.

The Encore Producer Award-winning one-woman show “SugarFree: Foster Care Cognitive Dissonance” is a solo show that combines psychology, poetry, personal narratives, humor, and lived experiences into a creative theatre play that will grab at the heartstrings. Contact me: [email protected]

One Dark Knight hit #8 on the best sellers list for Women Poetry. (Spill the Tea) The experimental show, One Dark Knight (A one-woman journey through transformation) It's DARK COMEDY · HILARIOUS · REALITY · HEARTFELT · MESSAGE MUSIC · SPOKEN WORD · STAND UP · SURREALISM

Positive Secrets is a unique and powerful look at the lives of real people living with HIV and AIDS. Crafted from interviews with young people dealing with the disease, it uses, drama humor And dance to get everyone to remember that HIV/AIDS is real and preventable.

GROWING THROUGH IT each real story starts and stops as they intersect, interact & intertwine. performers come into and act out each other's stories.

A behind the scenes look at the creator of the LA Music Critic Awards and Indie Voice Blog, following his growth from southern boy to patron of the indie arts.

An autobiographical peak into the life of an African-American, gay parent of a three-legged cat. Kelvin Blunt shares his eventful experiences with weight loss and gain, dating in the gay-app era, being called "daddy" while having daddy issues, and his interactions with the...woke-challenged.

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.