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.

Inspired by the outrageous stories found on Nextdoor.com, Town Brawl is your chance to witness petty and absurd neighborly drama being settled in a no holds barred town hall meeting. If you hate your neighbors, you'll love our show.

One man’s journey to the Flat Earth and back. Through the looking glass of hallucinogens, inside an ayahuasca sex cult and deep into the muck and mire of Youtube conspiracy videos. For James, the only way out of The Flat Earth that he finds himself on, is by pushing himself all the way to the edge.

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]

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

I Am Not A Man is the story of a Father and the Son he never had. Find out what happens when a little girl stops trying to be a tough guy and finally owns her womanhood. If you have ever wanted to ask your Father "WHY?!?!?!" this is the show for you.

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!

From medical assistant to magical assistant and then ultimately a cruise ship dancer. Typical Filipina, destined nurse. Then opportunity for a lifetime adventure barges through the door. How the heck did Pamela get from medical to magical? And made a career out of it? Come find out!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mick Berry explodes on stage with the turmoil and excitement of the wildest drummer in rock and roll, piercing Moon’s insane exterior to reveal the guts of the time bomb. "Berry’s performance - writer, actor, drummer - is not to be missed." Culture Spot L.A. "A tour de force" For All Events

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 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.