Compelling

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.

A mother and daughter have rescued a drowning man amidst a reckless storm. They take the man in to care for him when he soon reveals that he is from the future and his space ship crash landed into the sea.

IT’S JUST MY LIFE is a collection of powerfully life-affirming true stories, written and performed by the strong women who lived them. What seems extraordinary and overwhelming to us, just becomes part of the fabric of these women’s lives; the new normal.   

Mary starts the show and Mildred takes over. This is a play about finding common ground, how frivolous waters run deep, family, and butter.

Hilarious and moving, this story follows a girl with OCD through the struggles & triumphs of treatment and the quirky shenanigans of growing up anxious. It explores the stigma of mental illness and comedic growing pains of change. Written/performed by Daytime Emmy winner Jessica Carleton.

We’re all afraid of something, right? Maybe the dark or heights or a broken-down mechanical movie shark. After all, phobia is anything but reasonable. This show explores the often funny journey of facing what scares us most in hopes that it's the first step in overcoming it.

How A Dead John Doe from Skid Row A Year Ago wrote a B'way Show.

A moving new play by Jacob Smith, "Met Again" takes a look at the entirety of a unique but familiar relationship, from beginning to end, and how those big and small moments, connections, talks, fights, celebrations and experiences all come to mean something more.

Through a series of interlinking vignettes, this collection explores the pressures, conflicts, and humility of millennial women. What is it like to be a part of the most hated (or misunderstood) generation?

Louise is a young woman with Autism who has brief intervals of cognizance and where she speaks in beautiful haiku poetry. Her mother, Nell, has published the poems under her own name. When older daughter, Billie, visits, she refuses to believe that Louise composed the extraordinary poems.

Man is Wolf: One man trying to maintain great restraint in terms of his sexual inclinations, and another man who has shown no restraint. The play explores different angles of sexual abuse and violence.

A combat veteran evades his concerned girlfriend's questions about his tour in Afghanistan, and instead argues with his own PTSD.

An Asian-American visual effects artist is working on a top secret, very racially problematic project: digitally altering a white movie star to look biracial. Her white reporter bestie threatens to expose it all — and destroy her friend in the process.

“Conor McPherson’s play is haunting, inspired, and absolutely glorious.” -The New York Times

LeRoy "Phat Trane" Johnson has managed to quietly nudge his way into American culture. Now, recently out of prison, Phat Trane is ready to tell his story. Come hear some of his famous songs and the stories behind them in this new show.... Phat Trane: FOUND