True Stories

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.

Tired of the monotony of New York City corporate life, Royce, an ambitious 20-something, trades in his promising media research career for a one-way ticket to Southeast Asia. In this mixed-media live one-man show, Royce brings you on an 8-country adventure toward self-discovery.

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!

A group of young people have come together to write a series of 10-minute plays on topics and issues they find most pressing among their generation. It is a manifestation of their hopes and wishes for the world and it's time we all listened.

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]

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.

What if your "person" comes along right when you’ve been forbidden to find one? A Mormon tragedy in one act.

It's Personal is a collection of original solo pieces. Come see our performers get real about what Los Angeles means to them. From the heartfelt to the hilarious, this show will give the audience an opportunity to feel connected to our performers through their storytelling.

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

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.

When was the last time you spread your wings? Presenting, ANGELBIRD, one woman's journey to reconnect her wings & take flight. This hilarious, heart-wrenching tale is full of adventure, great heights and sudden nosedives. Come learn to fly with the ANGELBIRD as she soars through the air to freedom.

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.

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.

During a desperate escape from the Indian agency, the great Lakota chief, Crazy Horse, must review the lessons of his life, sketching characters with a feather, war bonnet, or shawl to discover how he may resist American westward expansion and save the lives of his people.

Kate has everything she’s ever dreamed of and so does Kate’s husband’s girlfriend. Armed with the sex-positive ethos of The Ethical Slut, Kate plunges into the world of polyamory and has no idea what she is in for.