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The story of getting over one’s self and doing the damn thing.

A Retrospection: "A retrospective no one asked for from a clown no one knows. " Claire Woolner, absurdist comedian and award winning studio artist, blows hard on the edges of performance art and swims into surrealist clown. Bits, pieces and breakdowns. This is important work.

Four women at a boutique ad agency are given twelve hours to come up with the perfect pitch. The product? Guns. The target demo? Moms. Wrestling with their consciences and their career ambitions, these four women must each decide what they are really willing to do for BIG MONEY!

Welcome, souls, to the last stop before the afterlife. The residents of the In-Between will guide you on your passageway. Choose wisely how you’ll spend your last hour as the sands of time funnel through the glass. Here you stay until your time runs out, but for you to proceed, a change is required.

Through a series of lessons taught by a professional curmudgeon, attendees will delve into the nonsensical assumptions and behaviors of daily life. Examples of learning outcomes include: how math can prove anything, preservatives are better than Botox, and being right over happy is so choice.

Physically projecting the story of a famous red-headed orphan over the true life journey of a queer sex worker coming to terms with reality decades later, Annie is Fancy uses projection mapping to remix a heartbreakingly surreal (yet campy) multimedia experience, turning darkness into a disco ball!

Nick explores his turbulent relationship with drugs with clever wit and dark sincerity. Now 14 years clean of opiates, Nick reflects on his past, the choices he made and the promises he broke. Is he a bad person? Is he a bad friend? Does he deserve forgiveness?

Every theatre has its ghost. This one has four; all vying for the title of resident theatre ghost... There can only be one. WINNER: Pick of the Fringe 2023 WINNER: Asylum @ Stephanie Feury 2023 Hollywood Encore Producers’ Award WINNER: San Diego International Fringe Festival Exchange Award

Stumbling down the street at 11:30 a.m. drunk, Effie is the kind of girl you'd avoid eye contact with. We think we know her, but we don't know the half of it. Welsh playwright Gary Owen uses the Greek myth of Iphigenia to tell a modern story: exploring social deprivation, poverty, and class.

Get on the bus—we’re going to summer camp! In a simpler time of trust-falls and visits to the medical tent, some wounds are too deep for a camp nurse to heal. Michelle Murphy embodies her younger selves, through rejection, self-worth & survival, Murphy reveals why she is, in fact, a keeper.

Teaching is performance, but it usually takes place in a classroom so people don’t notice. MS499: Advertising and the Social Construction of Gender takes this concept to a new level. The theatre becomes a classroom infused with magical realism. This is more than a play, it's a learning experience.

Laser Webber, trans performer known for his award-winning comedy music, presents a one-person musical show about the history of trans men. Meet Alan Hart, who got gender-confirming surgery in 1917; Samuel Bundy, whose legend includes a shark and a jail; and renowned author JK Rowling, for reasons.

This dark comedy tells the story of 3 young men who have a chance encounter due to a case of mistaken identity. That encounter changes their lives forever.

Ted Lasso's Brendan Hunt returns to his first and favorite solo show, describing the five years he lived in Amsterdam, wherein he slowly transformed from depressed Midwestern nerd to reasonably happy D-List Eurotrash Celebrity. MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.

Join teen Sela as she faces sexual assault & condemnation from her church by painting a portal to a new world. Based on her true story, with fiery humor, she meets her future self, wrestles with God and takes down her Pastor, healing generations of female powerlessness. An epic tale of empowerment!