Existential

You are invited to a show. But it’s THAT show. You know, the one they call “the quintessence of existentialism.” You promised your friend you’d be there. Enter the theater and find your seat. You have 60 minutes to escape. Part game, part performance. Totally absurd.

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)

The 2018 Hollywood Producers Encore Award winner! When a God runs out of true believers, only one thing is guaranteed: a temper tantrum of truly biblical proportions. And fleas.

Through the lens of three separate stories, Benevolence is an original two act drama about how our most important decisions are rarely made by us.

A hilarious 30 minute ensemble homeless comedy about a guy who live streams himself living homeless for a week and everyone in his life pulled along for the ride.

Combining butoh with experimental animation and puppetry, Shilo Kloko uses stark, striking visuals to portray a fluid relationship between puppet and puppeteer, reflecting our unstable, fluctuating social and emotional status as humans. Created by Nao Kobayashi. 2018 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship

A young office worker, in the midst of her midday malaise, boards an elevator that continues up beyond the office to an enchanted and unknown land. There, she encounters mythical creatures, dastardly villains, and helping hands who show her whether or not the daily grind is what she's meant to do.

Penelope, Telemachus, and Argus grapple with the absence of Odysseus across time and space in this modern reimagining of Homer's Odyssey.

Soliloquy of a young man called David, who, from the after-life, reflects on his life and death.

Charlotte has always wanted to be able to fly. She's not a bird, and she's not sure if she can technically do it, but she's determined to try!

Reilly has never questioned her life before. While working a dead-end job with nothing to show for it, Dhyrce shows her a way to live life that may be the kind of excitement she's looking for. What neither of them know is that the meaning of life is harder to figure out than just playing the part.

Psychodelicate an interdimensional traveler/Psychonaut/Mystic/Clown is Here Now to Spread the Good News of the Multiverse, Opening Hearts & Expanding Minds through interdimensional travel demonstration & practicum. A variety show with interactive lessons from the extradimensions.

"The unmistakable voice of a playwright who has something important to say," writes John Paul King, LA BLADE. Michael Kearns' work has been seen on L.A. stages for forty years and once again he magically transforms the forbidden into something beautiful.

It’s funny-or-die-in-the-graveyard time when Jeremy Kehoe’s absurdist, existential comedy, “Movin’ On Up”, makes its West Coast premiere at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival at The Complex Hollywood (Ruby Theater, 6476 Santa Monica Blvd.) June 1 - 21.

What is it? What does it mean? What does it mean to be? What does it mean to be here?