True Stories

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.

Devised from true life experiences of the company members, Escalation D explores the spectrum of consent, from the seemingly innocuous platinums to the life altering deep dark grays. You will laugh, you will cry, you might need a drink --- but our hope is to inspire respectful discourse.

Judy Garland is angry. Tasked with dictating her memoirs alone to a tape recorder, the legend's life story quickly gives way to the searing inner-rage & personal revenge fantasies of a woman left robbed & broken by decades of abuse in Hollywood, now living the profound heartbreak of not being heard.

Through anecdotes and song, Laura Coyle tells a sharply funny and poignant story about growing up with a mom who some may call... A Piece of Work.

The City of Happymont is your typical small but growing city, and while the Happymont City Council tries to keep order and get business done, the Public, or at least those who participate in Public Comment, takes up the Council's time with Conspiracy theories, rants, and musical numbers.

Comedian Daniel Lobell has been fat his whole life. Now 35, he is determined to conquer his food addiction. In his show, he talks about his lifelong struggle with fat and how he will get healthy and live forever!

The live, interactive adventures of a Los Angeles Uber/Lyft driver and YOU, the passengers! **Broadwater Encore Award 2018 Hollywood Fringe!!** **Sweet - Better Lemons**

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.

A solo comedic retrospective of a young man growing up in a New York eastern religious group, enhanced by original music and compelling visuals.

SEX RATED G is a personal trip across Hollywood's unsettling sexual landscape. Lisa Verlo explores the subject while recounting her sexual resume with such candor that in the end SEX will no longer be a four-letter word.

An one man show from Matthew Gudernatch, who touches on what it was like to lose his mother at a tender age. There are stories, songs, jokes, and other attempts to turn all of the unending pain he's endured into a fun performance with maybe just a pinch of male nudity. (It's a comedy)

On a twisting road to acceptance, a woman journeys into the deepest depths of her emotions to find clarity in the aftermath of her rape.

"My Life in 3 Easy Payments" is a one-man show, based on the memoir of former QVC host Dale Guy Madison, exploring the thirst for fame in the world of reality television.

A riff on Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, UNREEL recreates a foolish young man's uncertain journey to his dark side the night before his college entrance exams. A comedic journey about the confusing truth of Kiergegaard's maxim: Life must be lived forwards, but it can only be understood backwards

Betty, a recovered alcoholic everymom from middle America, packs up her life in preparation for an epic adventure to the red planet. Her memories, shared with unfiltered dry wit, will surprise and charm you.